ADVANCED LIBRARY TRAINING
Forming a Question

Making a Research Plan

Worksheet

Assignment (what do you understand the course assignment to be?) 

This assignment is to help students narrow large topics into an organized method so that appropriate and valid sources of information can be located through the library resources.  Thus, students have a variety of important resources that cover many aspects of their research.

Reference Sources Identified-   

Key Search Terms (prepare a list of keywords that you have found to help your research)

Carbon footprint,  coal industry, gasification, coal gasification, incentives, price breaks?, clean energy, renewable energies, “Sunshine Energy”, world-wide coal mining, world coal demands, world coal exports, coal energy wastes, coal waste, spent coal disposal, c0² disposal, carbon-dioxide disposal, limestone and CO² reactions,

“Air Pollution and Control Strategy”:  supercritical Pulverized coal Unit, No_x burner, Over-filled Air, SCR, Baghouse Wet Flue Gas Desulphurization, Wet Electric Static Precipatator, U.S. Domestic Coal Reserves, U.S. Coal Imports.

 Library of Congress--Subject Headings (Provide the appropriate subject headings you are finding)

Clean coal technologies, coal-to-liquid (CTL) fuels technology, Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI),FutureGen (Dept. of Energy, DOE), CTL processing facilities, Clean energy policies, clean energy programs, coal transport, clean coal transport, clean gasification, co2 storage,  bituminous coal, greatest production of toxic energy wastes, coal plant in Florida, Clear Skies legislation, U.S. Coal imports, Clean Coal Initiatives,

cap-and-trade programs 

Final Research Question: Why is coal considered 'clean', and what is it's true cost (ie. environmental and social implications)?

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