The author describes the necessity of increasing effectual demand for coal in view of the future energy problems as well as the situation in coal mining industry in Japan, and points out that coals should be utilized as chemical raw material rather than heat energy source.The new coal chemical industry is the very synthetic technology for the best use of the principal components-carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, and aiming at producing organic chemicals, town-gas, and power generation from coal together with water and air.For this purpose, coal is generally treated with the so-called micromeritics system, which should be performed under the establishment of synthetic policies on the coal chemical industry.Among technologies of the new coal chemistry are gasification, hydrogenation, oxydation, solvent treatment, carbonization, fiudized carbonization, etc.Fundamental studies relating to them have been accomplished, and so a public corporation of technical develo-pmentestablished by the Government should at once perform the industrial test, thus from the results the close synthetic plan should be made.The author concludes that a Governmental or public enterprise to meet the aim should quickly be arranged and realized in the field of the new synthetic coal chemical industry.
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