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BACKGROUND

The Coal Research Forum was formed in 1989 to encourage, promote and co-ordinate basic research on coal, coal characterisation, coal products and coal utilisation in the UK with particular emphasis on: the promotion and co-ordination of contact between academe and industry; and the assessment and co-ordination of resources and needs concerned with coal utilisation and conversion. The Forum has a strong and continuing programme of events.

The UK National Meeting on Coal Research and its Applications was first held in 1996 and, with the fifth meeting planned for September 2004, is now an established biennial event. The fourth meeting, held in 2002 at Imperial College, London, was successful in attracting over 80 abstracts, which were given mainly as oral presentations with around 30 poster presentations. A special publication of FUEL was produced which included a number of the presentations as full papers. Building on this success, the fifth meeting, now planned......

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