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Why An Ash Library?

The most simplistic answer is, of course, because coal combustion byproducts (CCBs) must be used rather than landfilled. Our planet can not support the space needed to landfill all, or even a significant part of, our wastes.

In order to learn to use CCBs more efficiently and effectively, research results must be disseminated in a way that makes them readilly available to everyone in the field - industries, academia, governments. Information leads to innovation in industry, but it also leads to questions and ideas that can be answered only with further research.

As forums for the gathering and dissemination of information, the International Ash Utilization Symposia of the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research and the International Symposia of the American Coal Ash Association have been held biennially for many years. In 2005, the World of Coal Ash conference was convened as a combination of both of those symposia, plus meetings of a number of other organizations, such as the U. S. Office of Surface Mining and the U. S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory.

The papers at this website were presented at the 1999, 2001, and 2003 International Ash Utilization Symposia, and at the 2005 and 2007 World of Coal Ash Conferences. These papers are the ones for which authors have given permission for placement on this website; hence, some presentations are not represented by a paper in this Ash Library.

If you would like to see the complete International Ash Utilization Symposia agendas (with abstracts for most of the presentations), please go to International Ash Utilization Symposia Series.

If you would like to see the complete World of Coal Ash agenda (with abstracts for most of the presentations), please go to World of Coal Ash Conference.

If you would like to purchase a Proceedings Volume from either the International Ash Utilization Symposia or the WOCA Conferences please go to the order form.

We hope to continuously add more papers to this Ash Library Web Site, keeping this site dynamically up-to-date with the rapidly changing field.

Usage Restrictions

The papers on this website can be downloaded, printed, and/or cited. However, the University of Kentucky maintains a single use license from our authors. The author(s) maintain copyright ownership. Posting these papers on other websites or republishing them in other media violates the rights of both the authors and the University of Kentucky.

The papers at this site must be viewed with Acrobat or Acrobat Reader. For a free download of Acrobat Reader from the Adobe website, click here.