Coal gasification by CO2 gas bubbling in molten salt for solar/fossil energy hybridization

Solar Energy

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 257-261

  Matsunami, Jun ^a   Yoshida, Shinya ^a   Oku, Yoshinori ^a   Yokota, Osamu ^a   Tamaura, Yutaka ^a   Kitamura, Mitsunobu ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; COAL GASIFICATION; COKE; FOSSIL FUELS; MOLTEN MATERIALS; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; PYROLYSIS; SALTS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR ENERGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

BOUDOUARD REACTION; GAS BUBBLING; POTASSIUM CARBONATES; SODIUM CARBONATES; SOLAR THERMOMECHEMICAL PROCESS;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 0033880327     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-092X(99)00074-2     Document Type: Article

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