Conference Topics
- Overview
- Spontaneous coal seam fires as a global phenomenon
- Integrated fire management – case studies, lessons learned
- Demands on research and politics for effective mitigation and prevention
- Geosciences
- Exploring coal fire extent by geological, geophysical and geochemical means
- Long-term monitoring of extinct coal fires and endangered mining zones
- GIS-based mapping and risk assessment methodologies
- Materials Research
- Coal fire reactions, ignition, inertization, heat- and mass balances
- Exhaust gas measurements and condensates
- Coal petrography
- Remote Sensing
- Thermal remote sensing for coal fire detection and monitoring
- Components of thermal land surface processes
- Spectroscopic detection and quantification of coal fire products
- Modeling
- General challenges in modeling fire-induced transport
- Recent developments in THMC modeling for geo-engineering
- Applications for data interpretation, planning and decision making processes
- Fire Fighting
- Extinguishing effects and innovative fire fighting methods
- Decision making process to identify endangered objects
- International and national fire combating procedures
- Mining
- Mine design for effective prevention of coal fires
- Mine development without coal fires
- Coal fire detection and monitoring during mine operations
- CDM & Funding
- Modeling greenhouse gas emissions from coal fires
- Baseline estimation using field data
- Benefits from political and industrial awareness of coal fires, CDM alternatives
