Modeling char combustion with fractal pore effects

Combustion Science and Technology

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 19-37

  He, Rong ^a   Sato, Jun'ichi ^b   Chen, Changhe ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IHHICL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Char; Combustion; Fractal; Pores

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CHARCOAL; DIFFUSION; FRACTALS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

CHAR PORES; FRACTAL GEOMETRICAL FACTORS; FRACTAL PORE EFFECTS; MERCURY POROSIMETRY MEASUREMENTS; PORE FRACTAL DIMENSIONS; PRE-EXPONENTIAL FACTOR;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 0042149874     PISSN: 00102202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713713018     Document Type: Article

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