On the modelling of coal combustion in a 550 MWel coal-fired utility boiler

Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 194-207

  Knaus, Hermann ^a   Schnell, Uwe ^a   Hein, Klaus R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coal combustion; Coal fired boiler; Kinetic combustion modelling

Indexed keywords

BOILERS; CARBON MONOXIDE; OXIDATION; PYROLYSIS; TURBULENCE;

ELECTRICAL OUTPUTS;

COAL COMBUSTION;

BOILER; COMBUSTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; OXIDATION; PARTICLE DISPERSION; PYROLYSIS;

EID: 0242666397     PISSN: 14684349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PCFD.2001.001484     Document Type: Article

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