Does solid carbon burn in oxygen to give the gaseous intermediate CO or produce CO2 directly? Some experiments in a hot bed of sand fluidized by air

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 427-438

  Hayhurst, A N ^a   Parmar, M S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b GIRTON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon combustion; Fluidized beds; Mechanism of burning

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; DIFFUSION; ENTHALPY; FLUIDIZED BEDS; FREE RADICALS; GRAPHITE; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; REACTION KINETICS; SAND;

SOLID CARBON COMBUSTION;

COMBUSTION;

AIR; CARBON; FLUIDIZATION; OXIDATION;

EID: 0032006651     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(97)00334-5     Document Type: Article

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