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a Jointly Sponsored Research Program (JSRP) was incorporated into the agreement whereby some of the investigations were conducted as part of the Base Program and some were undertaken with cosponsorship from the commercial sector or other government agencies in the JSRP. This report is divided into two volumes: Volume I consists of 28 summaries that describe the principal research efforts conducted under the Base Program in five principal topic areas. Volume II describes tasks performed within the JSRP. Research conducted under this agreement has resulted in technology transfer of a variety of energy-related research information. A listing of related publications and presentations is given at the end of each research topic summary. More specific and detailed information is provided in the topical reports referenced in the related publications listings. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSFunding for this research has been provided under U.S. Department of Energy Cooperative Agreement DE-FC21-86MC11076 and by numerous JSRP cosponsors. In addition to the efforts of the authors who prepared the topic summaries, the considerable efforts of the many researchers and support people at Western Research Institute (WRI) who provided essential assistance in the design, conduct, and reporting of the work are greatly appreciated. Special thanks is due the individuals in DOE who have provided input and direction to the research studies and for their review and comments on completed studies. v EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Numerous studies have been conducted under Cooperative Agreement DE-FC21-86MC11076 since its initiation in October 1986. During the time of the agreement, the most significant change occurred in 1989 when the agreement was redefined as a Base Program and a Jointly Sponsored Research Program (JSRP). Research topics within the Base Program continued, with an emphasis given to exploratory research that might lead to further development under the JSRP.The JSRP was initiated to foster participation between WRI, industry, and DOE in areas of high industrial interest. With joint funding of tasks, greater levels of effort were carried out, resulting in more significant findings, for each participant's contribution. Under the program, 29 tasks were performed in topics of coal processing, enhanced oil recovery, recovery of oil from tank bottoms, in situ cleanup of organic materials, utilization of coal fly ash for road stabilization and waste containment, natural gas cleanup, oil shale processing, tar sand processing, development of instruments for in situ measurements, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurement of organic material in sedimentary rocks, development of methods for characterization of petroleum residuals and for leachate extraction, evaluation of materials derived from processing scrap tires as asphalt modifiers, cogeneration from woodderived fuels or coal, and development of a hydrologic data base system for coal mines. Several of these technologies show good promise for commercialization.A very promising process developed by WRI for...

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