This book gathers technical and scientific articles by leading experts from 15 countries and originally presented at the world's most prestigious forum on coal preparation: the XVIII International Coal Preparation Congress. Topics addressed include: the mineral resources basis of the coal industry; problems and prospects of development in the coal industry; crushing, grinding, screening and classification processes used at sorting plants; coal processing and briquette factories; review of plant designs and operations used around the world; new developments in dense-medium separators, water-based separation processes, froth flotation and dewatering; technologies and equipment for the dry separation of coal; coal deep processing technologies and equipment; energy generation as an area of coal deep processing; and simulation and optimization software for separation processes.

Part 1: Resources of the Coal Industry and their features.- Technological Progress Having Impact on Coal Demand Growth.- New approaches to creation of low-temperature compositions for prevention of coal congealing.- Various potential uses of coal from Apsatsky coalfield.- Combined chemical-beneficiation processes of valuable components extraction from coal burning wastes.- Coal in the economy of Russia.- New type of noble metal mineralization in the graphite formation of the Khanka terrane, Russian Southeast.- Desulphurization of high-sulfur coking coal by microwave irradiation assisted with alkali solution.- Country report Mongolia.- Indonesia economic output and employment impact of low rank coal utilization: input output analysis.- From Mining to Refining - Contribution of selective Mining to Value Chain optimisation.- Status of coal mining and coal preparation.