1. Report on Best Practice Guidelines for industrial applications of the combined CBM and methane rich syngas UCG process technology.
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2. Report on the permitting and regulatory requirements of the methane-rich syngas UCG technology and implications for the regulators.
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1. Sadasivam S, Zagorščak R, Thomas HR, Kapusta K, Stańczyk K, Experimental Study Of Methane Oriented Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) Of Semi-Anthracite And Bituminous Coals Using Oxygen And Steam: Effects Of Pressure, Temperature, Gasification Reactant Supply Rates And Coal Rank. FUEL 2020, 268: 117330
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016236120303252
2. Otto C, Kempka, T, Synthesis gas composition prediction for underground coal gasification using a thermochemical equilibrium modeling approach. Energies 2020, 13 (5), 1171
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/5/1171
3. Kapusta K, Wiatowski M, Stańczyk K, Zagorščak R, Thomas HR, Large-scale Experimental Investigations to Evaluate the Feasibility of Producing Methane-rich gas (SNG) through Underground Coal Gasification Process. Effect of Coal Rank and Gasification Pressure. Energies 2020, 13 (6), 1334
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/6/1334
4. Kempka T, Verification of a Python-based TRANsport Simulation Environment for density-driven fluid flow and coupled transport of heat and chemical species. Advances in Geosciences 2020; 54: 67–77
https://adgeo.copernicus.org/articles/54/67/2020/adgeo-54-67-2020.pdf
5. Strugała-Wilczek A, Basa W, Kapusta K, Soukup K, In situ sorption phenomena can mitigate potential negative environmental effects of underground coal gasification (UCG) - an experimental study of phenol removal on UCG-derived residues in the aspect of contaminant retardation. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 2021; 208:111710
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651320315475
6. An N, Zagorščak R, Thomas HR, Gao W, A numerical investigation into the environmental impact of underground coal gasification technology based on a coupled thermal-hydro-chemical model. Journal of Cleaner Production 2021; 290: 125181
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652620352252
7. Sadasivam S, Zagorščak R, Thomas HR, Kapusta K, Stańczyk K, Characterisation of inorganic constitutions of condensate and solid residue generated from small-scale ex situ experiments in the context of underground coal gasification. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2021.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11356-021-15780-8.pdf
8. Pankiewicz-Sperka M, Kapusta K, Basa W, Stolecka K, Characteristics of Water Contaminants from Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) Process—Effect of Coal Properties and Gasification Pressure. Energies 2021, 14, 6533. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14206533.
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/20/6533/htm
9. An N, Zagorščak R, Thomas HR, Environmental assessment of underground coal gasification in deep-buried seams. Environmental Geotechnics. https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/10.1680/jenge.20.00177
10. An N, Zagorščak R, Thomas HR, Adsorption characteristics of rocks and soils, and their potential for mitigating the environmental impact of underground coal gasification technology: A review. Journal of Environmental Management 2022, 305, 114390.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030147972102452X
11. An, N., Zagorščak, R. and Thomas, H.R., 2022. Transport of heat, moisture, and gaseous chemicals in hydro-mechanically altered strata surrounding the underground coal gasification reactor. International Journal of Coal Geology, 249, p.103879.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166516221002068
12. Chabab, E, Otto, C, Kempka, T, 3D structural geological model of the Central South Wales Syncline, Great Britain (Report), (Scientific Technical Report STR - Data ; 21/11), 2021, Potsdam : GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 23 p.
https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/faces/ViewItemFullPage.jsp?itemId=item_5009286
13. Chabab, E, Otto, C, Kempka, T, 3D structural geological model of the Central South Wales Syncline, Great Britain. GFZ Data Services 2021.
https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/faces/ViewItemFullPage.jsp?itemId=item_5009302_1
14. Krzysztof Kapusta, Marian Wiatowski, Hywel R. Thomas, Renato Zagorscak, Sivachidambaram Sadasivam, Shakil Masum, Thomas Kempka, Christopher Otto, Wioleta Basa, Marcin Szyja, Krzysztof Stańczyk, Experimental simulations of methane-oriented underground coal gasification using hydrogen - the effect of coal rank and gasification pressure on the hydrogasification process. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2023, 3: 921-932
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360319922046353?via%3Dihub
1. Kapusta K., Stańczyk K., Thomas H., Zagorscak R., Durucan S., Korre A., Kempka T., Nakaten N., Williams K., Bezak B Soukup K., Šolcová O., Lafortune S., Laouafa F., Recent European research activities in UCG technology - the best use of resource approach in MEGAPlus Project, at ACI 8th Gasification Conference 2019, 13-14 March 2019, Brussels
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2. Kapusta K., Stańczyk K., Thomas H., Zagorscak R., Durucan S., Korre A., Kempka T., Nakaten N., Williams K., Bezak B Soukup K., Šolcová O., Lafortune S., Laouafa F., Unconventional Methane Production from Deep Seams through Combined Coal Bed Methane (CBM) and Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) Technologies: Project MEGAPlus, at The IEA Clean Coal Centre’s 9th International Conference on Clean Coal Technologies (CCT 2019) 3-7 June 2019, Houston USA
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3. Kapusta K., Unconventional Gas from Coal - Perspectives for Coalbed Methane (CBM) and Underground Gasification (UCG), International Mining Forum 2019, 11th April 2019, Katowice, Poland
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4. K. Kapusta, K. Stańczyk, A. Krzemień, H. Thomas, R. Zagorscak, S. Durucan, A. Korre, T. Kempka, K. Otto, N. Nakaten, E. Chabab, O. Solcova, K. Soukap, S. Lafortune, F. Laouafa, C. Williams, B. Bezak. MEGAPlus: Unconventional Methane Production from Combined CBM-UCG Technology Under the EU Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS). The Fifth International Symposium on Mine Safety Science and Engineering (ISMSSE2021) 21-25 November 2021, Katowice, Poland
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