At a research-scale combustion unit at Ohio State University,
engineers are testing a clean coal technology that harnesses the
energy of coal chemically, without burning it. Here, doctoral
student Elena Chung (left) and master's student Samuel Ayham
(right) display chunks of coal along with pulverized coal
(bottle, center) and the iron oxide beads (bottle, right) that
enable the chemical reaction.Jo McCulty / Ohio State University
At Ohio Stateâs Clean Coal Research Laboratory, Liang-Shih Fan
(left), professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering,
examines a sub-pilot scale combustion unit with Dawei Wang
(right), a research associate and team leader in the lab.Jo
McCulty / Ohio State University Researchers have discovered a
stunning new process that takes the energy from coal without
burning it -- and removes virtually all of the pollution. The
clean coal technique was developed by scientists at The Ohio
State University, with just $5 million in funding from the
federal government, and took 15 years to a