Combustion performance and emissions of ethyl ester of a waste vegetable oil in a water-cooled furnace

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 285-293

  Tashtoush, Ghassan ^a   Al Widyan, Mohamad I ^a   Al Shyoukh, Ali O ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Biodiesel; Combustion; Ethyl ester; Furnace emissions; Waste vegetable oil

Indexed keywords

ESTERS; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING FURNACES; THERMAL POLLUTION; VEGETABLE OILS; VISCOSITY;

ETHYL ESTERS;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 0037289574     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-4311(02)00188-6     Document Type: Article

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