A comprehensive slagging and fouling prediction tool for coal-fired boilers and its validation/application

Fuel Processing Technology

Volumn 88, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 1035-1043

  Ma, Zhanhua ^a   Iman, Felicia ^a   Lu, Pisi ^a   Sears, Rod ^a   Kong, Lingbu ^b   Rokanuzzaman, A S ^b   McCollor, Donald P ^b   Benson, Steven A ^b  

^a RMT Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coal fired boiler; Fouling; Slagging

Indexed keywords

COAL ASH; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOULING; FURNACES; SLAGS; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

ALLIANT ENERGY CORPORATION (CO); SLAGGING; SUPER HEATER DIVISION PANELS;

COAL FIRED BOILERS;

EID: 34848882839     PISSN: 03783820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuproc.2007.06.025     Document Type: Article

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