Co-firing of coal and biomass fuel blends

Progress in Energy and Combustion Science

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 171-214

  Sami, M ^a   Annamalai, K ^a   Wooldridge, M ^b  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COAL; FIRING (OF MATERIALS); PHOTOSYNTHESIS; WASTES;

COFIRING;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 0035131112     PISSN: 03601285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-1285(00)00020-4     Document Type: Article

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