Predicting the effective thermal conductivity of polydispersed beds of softwood bark and softwood char

Fuel

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 395-404

  Gupta, Murlidhar ^a,b   Yang, Jin ^a   Roy, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bed porosity; Effective thermal conductivity; Heat transfer; Linear packing theory; Polydispersed modelling; Softwood bark; Softwood char; Unit cell

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONDUCTION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POROSITY; SIEVES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

SOFTWOOD BARK;

SOFTWOODS;

POROSITY; SIEVES; SOFTWOODS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0037333062     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-2361(02)00308-3     Document Type: Article

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