Solid waste plasma gasification: Equilibrium model development and exergy analysis

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 47, Issue 13-14, 2006, Pages 1723-1737

  Mountouris, A ^a   Voutsas, E ^a   Tassios, D ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Equilibrium; Exergy; Modeling; Plasma gasification

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; EXERGY; OPTIMIZATION; PLASMAS; SYNTHESIS GAS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; WASTE TREATMENT;

EQUILIBRIUM; MODELING; PLASMA GASIFICATION;

GASIFICATION;

EID: 33645404560     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2005.10.015     Document Type: Article

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