Coal is physically and chemically a heterogeneous rock which mainly consists of organic
material. It is generally agreed that the organic coal material has been formed from plant …

Coal is a non-renewable fossil fuel combusted to generate power or used to produce liquid
or gas fuels with high energy densities. The abundance of coal reserves and the …

The major portion of coals around the world belongs to lignitic origin, and burning of these
Low Rank Coals (LRCs) not only produces energy, but also release harmful gases into the …

We investigated the degradation of refractory organic matter (OM) by the basidiomycete
fungus Schizophyllum commune to understand the release of dissolved organic …

The production of ligninolytic enzymes was studied in surface cultures of the South
American white-rot fungus Nematoloma frowardii b19 and four other strains of this …

Industrially produced carbon-based nanomaterials (CNM), including fullerenes and
nanotubes, will be introduced into the environment in increasing amounts in the next …

The biodegradation of coal discard is being intensively studied in South Africa in an effort to
develop passive methods for the successful revegetation and rehabilitation of waste dumps …

During the cyanidation process for gold extraction, natural carbonaceous matter (CM)
present in refractory gold ores adsorbs dissolved aurocyanide complexes, thereby reducing …

The sequential degradation of coal by two bacterial species was one of the effective
methods to improve the coal biodegradation rates. In this paper, two bacteria N …

The irregular chemical structure of coal makes it an improbable substrate for bioconversion.
Nevertheless, work completed in the last 20 years makes likely the development of …