April 30 – May 2, 2013. Coal Prep claims to be the only annual trade show and conference in the U.S. dedicated to coal preparation and processing. Industry professionals came from all over the world to share the latest ideas and techniques on coal preparation and processing technologies. Commercially-minded delegates were there to purchase and preview the latest equipment and services, view to increasing plant productivity and reducing costs. Coal industry professionals were presented with a conference programmed by a dedicated Technical Program Committee made up of operators and industry leaders. High on everyone’s agenda was talk about re-positioning coal as a valid fuel for the future, despite its increasingly beleaguered reputation as a “dirty fuel” that contributes to global warming and other ills. Ranged against the “clean coal” aficionados were a few refuseniks who seemed to think that “clean coal” was a concept about as logical as “dehydrated water”….
