Chlorine in solid fuels fired in pulverized fuel boilerss-sources, forms, reactions, and consequences: A literature review

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3379-3391

  Tillman, David A ^a   Duong, Dao ^a   Miller, Bruce ^b  

^a Foster Wheeler Ltd   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI EARTH; AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY; BIOMASS FUELS; CO-FIRING; COFIRED; COMBUSTION CONDITION; COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGY; COMBUSTION TEMPERATURES; CORROSION RISK; DEVELOPING PROJECTS; FIELD EXPERIENCE; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; FOSTER WHEELERS; FUEL CHEMISTRY; FULL-SCALE PLANTS; GASEOUS PRODUCTS; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MERCURY CAPTURE; MERCURY CONTROL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; MUNICIPAL WASTE; OXIDATION STATE; PF-BOILER; PILOT PLANT EXPERIMENTS; POLYCHLORINATED DIOXINS; POTENTIAL SOURCES; SOLID FUELS; STEAM PRESSURES; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

ALKALI METALS; ALKALINITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; BOILERS; CHLORINE; COAL; COAL COMBUSTION; COAL INDUSTRY; CORROSION; DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; MERCURY (METAL); ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PETROLEUM COKE; PETROLEUM RESEARCH; PILOT PLANTS; REVIEWS; SMOKE; SOLID WASTES; SULFUR; THERMOCHEMISTRY; WASTE INCINERATION; WOOD FUELS;

PULVERIZED FUEL;

ALKALI METALS; ALKALINITY; BIOMASS; BOILERS; CHLORINE; COAL; COMBUSTION; FUELS; GRINDING; MERCURY; SMOKE; SOLID WASTES; THERMOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 68349089320     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef801024s     Document Type: Review

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