Dr. P. Jayarama Reddy is an energy consultant to the solar photovoltaic industry and serves as a board member of several international renewable energy companies related to solar module fabrication, power generation from biomass and municipal solid waste. He is a retired professor of Physics (Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupathi, India) and has worked in various big research laboratories at Cornell University (US), Imperial College London (UK), Charles University (Czech Republic), and Stuttgart University (Germany). Dr. Reddy is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) and has published a number of papers on polycrystalline thin film solar materials and cells, as well as the books Science and Technology of Photovoltaics, published by BS Publications / CRC Press/Balkema, and Solar Power Generation, published by CRC Press/Balkema.

• 1. Introduction2. Global Primary energy consumption3. Coal: Formation, Classification, Reserves & Production4. Natural gas: Reserves, emissions and costs5. Pollution from Coal Combustion6. Coal Treatment & Emissions Control methods7. Coal-based Power generation8. Advanced Coal Power plant Technologies Section A: Coal combustion technologies, Section B: Coal conversion technologies9. Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage10. Coal-to-Liquid fuels11. CCTs in Developing Countries12. Outlook for Coal-based Power generation. Annexures.

Dr. P. Jayarama Reddy is an energy consultant to the solar photovoltaic industry and serves as a board member of several international renewable energy companies related to solar module fabrication, power generation from biomass and municipal solid waste. He is a retired professor of Physics (Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupathi, India) and has worked in various big research laboratories at Cornell University (US), Imperial College London (UK), Charles University (Czech Republic), and Stuttgart University (Germany). Dr. Reddy is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) and has published a number of papers on polycrystalline thin film solar materials and cells, as well as the books Science and Technology of Photovoltaics, published by BS Publications / CRC Press/Balkema, and Solar Power Generation, published by CRC Press/Balkema.

• 1. Introduction2. Global Primary energy consumption3. Coal: Formation, Classification, Reserves & Production4. Natural gas: Reserves, emissions and costs5. Pollution from Coal Combustion6. Coal Treatment & Emissions Control methods7. Coal-based Power generation8. Advanced Coal Power plant Technologies Section A: Coal combustion technologies, Section B: Coal conversion technologies9. Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage10. Coal-to-Liquid fuels11. CCTs in Developing Countries12. Outlook for Coal-based Power generation. Annexures.

Dr. P. Jayarama Reddy is an energy consultant to the solar photovoltaic industry and serves as a board member of several international renewable energy companies related to solar module fabrication, power generation from biomass and municipal solid waste. He is a retired professor of Physics (Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupathi, India) and has worked in various big research laboratories at Cornell University (US), Imperial College London (UK), Charles University (Czech Republic), and Stuttgart University (Germany). Dr. Reddy is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) and has published a number of papers on polycrystalline thin film solar materials and cells, as well as the books Science and Technology of Photovoltaics, published by BS Publications / CRC Press/Balkema, and Solar Power Generation, published by CRC Press/Balkema.

• 1. Introduction2. Global Primary energy consumption3. Coal: Formation, Classification, Reserves & Production4. Natural gas: Reserves, emissions and costs5. Pollution from Coal Combustion6. Coal Treatment & Emissions Control methods7. Coal-based Power generation8. Advanced Coal Power plant Technologies Section A: Coal combustion technologies, Section B: Coal conversion technologies9. Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage10. Coal-to-Liquid fuels11. CCTs in Developing Countries12. Outlook for Coal-based Power generation. Annexures.