Application of acoustic agglomeration to reduce fine particle emissions from coal combustion plants

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3843-3849

  Gallego Juárez, Juan A ^a   Riera Franco De Sarabia, Enrique ^a   Rodríguez Corral, German ^a   Hoffmann, Thomas L ^a,d   Gálvez Moraleda, Juan C ^a   Rodríguez Maroto, Jesus J ^b   Gómez Moreno, Francisco J ^b   Bahillo Ruiz, Alberto ^b   Martín Espigares, Manuel ^b   Acha, Miguel ^c  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

^b CIEMAT   (Spain)

^c ASINEL   (Spain)

^d Fraunhofer Technology Center Hialeah   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; AGGLOMERATION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; COAL COMBUSTION; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUE GASES; FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTORS; HEALTH HAZARDS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC AGGLOMERATION; COAL COMBUSTION PLANTS; ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATOR; FLUIDIZED BED COAL COMBUSTOR; SONIC ENERGY;

PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

COAL;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; FILTRATION; FLUE GAS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0033231108     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es990002n     Document Type: Article

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