COM (coal) (English spelling)

…After the oil crisis, the trend for a large expansion of coal consumption started to emerge, and as a result, attention was focused on “fluidization” in order to streamline distribution. The main issue was mixing with liquids in order to transport large quantities over long distances, and COM (coal-oil-mixture), which is mixed with heavy oil, is already on the verge of becoming a practical product. As a method that does not use oil, there is CWS (coal-water-slurry), which is mixed with water, and in this case, it is particularly important to make the slurry as concentrated as possible. …

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "COM (coal)" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…石油危機を境に石炭消費の大幅な拡大の気運が生まれるとともに，それに伴う流通の合理化のために，〈流体化〉が注目されてきた。大量，長距離という点から液体との混合が主題であり，重油と混合したCOM(coal‐oil‐mixture)はすでに実用の域に入ろうとしている。油を使わない方法として水と混合したCWS(coal‐water‐slurry)があり，この場合はできるだけ高濃度のスラリーにすることがとくに重要である。…

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