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Clean Coal Sciences
The key objectives of this agreement are to promote research on coal
-- from the science of coal combustion, conversion and utilization
to co-firing and bio-co-processing. To this end the participating nations
in the Implementing Agreement for a Programme of Research, Development
and Demonstration on Clean Coal Sciences have developed a variety of
means to share and develop coal combustion technology.
Enhanced Oil Recovery
Since 1979, the International Energy Agency has sponsored an implementing
agreement on enhanced oil recovery. This group meets once per year
to hold a two-day symposium and a one-day workshop.This is a task-shared
agreement without an operating agent or a central budget. The meetings
have migrated in the past decade from closed sessions to open sessions
where the information is deemed to be in the public domain.
Fluidized Bed Conversion
The International Energy Agency (IEA) Implementing Agreement for Cooperation
in the Field of Fluidized Bed Conversion (FBC) of Fuels Applied to
Clean Energy Production provides a framework for international collaboration
on energy technology development and deployment.
IEA Clean Coal Centre
The world's foremost provider of information on efficient coal supply
and use, IEA Coal Research - The Clean Coal Centre enhances innovation
and continued development of coal as a clean source of energy.
Greenhouse Gas RD Programme
The use of fossil fuels, at least for the next 50-100 years, will be
necessary to underpin world economic development. However, combustion
of fossil fuels produces greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide.
Some reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases is the only way in which
the continued use of fossil fuels can be reconciled with stabilising
atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases in accordance with the
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Multiphase Flow Sciences
AIM To promote the exchange of information between researchers in member
countries to improve the efficiency of multiphase flow systems regarding
energy utilisation and emission reduction. OBJECTIVES To improve understanding
of the fundamental behaviour and properties of multiphase flow through
theoretical studies and experimentation To develop improved instrumentation
for gathering fundamental information on multiphase flow To provide
participants with access to advanced research apparatus and instrumentation
not readily available in their own member country research programmes.
