Mesoscale power generation by a catalytic combustor using electrosprayed liquid hydrocarbons

Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 965-972

  Kyritsis, Dimitrios C ^a   Guerrero Arias, Ismael ^a   Roychoudhury, Subir ^b   Gomez, Alessandro ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b Precision Combustion Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; COMBUSTORS; DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROCARBONS;

CATALYTIC COMBUSTORS; CIRCULAR SURFACES; COMBUSTION EFFICIENCIES; EFFICIENT COMBUSTIONS; EQUIVALENCE RATIOS; LIQUID HYDROCARBONS; MESOSCALE; POWER PRODUCTION;

EXHAUST GASES;

EID: 0038575337     PISSN: 15407489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1540-7489(02)80122-5     Document Type: Article

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