Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• PART I OVERVIEW: COAL CONSUMPTION, PRODUCTION AND TRADE
• Chapter 1 Coal consumption, production and trade
• Commercial types of coal
• 1. Energy production and general consumption
• 2. Steel production
• 3. Electricity generation
• Coal trade
• Pattern of trade
• Chapter 2 Major coal producers
• Australia
• North America
• 1. USA
• 2. Canada
• Poland
• Chapter 3 Major consumers - patterns of demand
• Europe
• Japan
• Chapter 4 Major exporters
• Australia
• USA
• Canada
• Poland
• South Africa
• United Kingdom
• Other Exporters
• Chapter 5 The importers
• Japan
• Power station coal trade
• PART II CARRIAGE OF COAL
• Chapter 6 The ships employed to carry coal
• History of the bulk carrier
• Combination carriers
• Self-discharging bulk carriers
• Engines for bulk carriers
• The relationship between speed and consumption
• Tonnage
• Refrerence for chapter 6
• Chapter 7 Problems concerned with the carriage of coal
• Problems related to the ships
• Problems related to carrying coal
• Conclusions
• Chapter 8 The loading, carrying and discharging of coal
• Loadlines
• Strength of ships
• Cargo handling systems
• Stowage factors for coal
• Measurement of coal cargoes
• Reference for chapter 8
• Chapter 9 Chartering
• Types of charter
• 1. Voyage charter
• 2. Consecutive voyage
• 3. Part charter
• 4. Time or period charter
• 5. Time or trip charter
• 6. Bareboat (demise) charter
• 7. Contracts of affreightment (COA)
• The decision whether to time or voyage charter a ship
• Charter party forms
• Charter party forms used in the coal trade
• Time charters
• References for chapter 9
• PART III ORIGINS, PROPERTIES, UTILISATION AND EVALUATION OF COAL
• SECTION I ORIGINSL, PROPERTIES AND UTILISATION OF COAL
• Chapter 10 Origins
• Formation
• Mining
• Composition
• General Classification
• Chapter 11 The petrographic classification of coal
• Application to coking coal
• The production of coke
• Chapter 12 The industrial utilisation of coal
• Steel industry
• Power generation
• Cement production
• SECTION 2 THE EVALUATION OF COALS
• Chapter 13 Theoretical and practical considerations
• Chapter 14 Principles of sampling of coal
• General sampling procedures
• Time and place
• Number of sample increments
• Devising a sampling scheme
• Chapter 15 Manual sampling
• Sampling from a stationary belt
• Sampling from a falling stream
• Sampling from railway wagons or road trucks
• Sampling from a crane grab
• Sampling from a ship
• Sampling from a stockpile
• Chapter 16 Mechanical sampling
• Testing for bias
• Chapter 17 Analysis
• Sample preparation
• Total moisture content
• Sizing
• Analysis procedures
• Proximate analysis
• Ultimate analysis
• Calorific value
• Hardgrove Grindability Index
• Crucible swelling number
• PART IV TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE
• Chapter 18 Problems and dangers
• Spontaneous combustion
• Frozen coal
• Chapter 19 The role of the cargo superintendent in coal transportation
• Claims
• Appendices:
• Appendix 1 Seaborne coal trade matrics 1980/1985/1990/1995
• Appendix 2 IMO code of Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargoes
• Appendix B: Coal
• Appendix 3 Draft surveying
• Appendix 4 IMO Ship/Shore Safety Checklist
• Index