Numerical analysis of size reduction of municipal solid waste particles on the traveling grate of a waste-to-energy combustion chamber

Proceedings of the 14th Annual North American Waste to Energy Conference, NAWTEC14

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 125-130

  Nakamura, Masato ^a   Castaldi, Marco J ^a   Themelis, Nickolas J ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW); PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS (PSD); SHRINKING CORE MODEL (SCM); WASTE-TO-ENERGY (WIE);

COMBUSTION; COMPACTION; CONTRACTS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SHRINKAGE; WASTE UTILIZATION;

SOLID WASTES;

EID: 33745323561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/NAWTEC14-3193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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