Thermogravimetric analysis of tobacco combustion assuming daem devolatilization and empirical char-burnoff kinetics

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1591-1599

  Várhegyi, Gábor ^a   Czégény, Zsuzsanna ^a   Liu, Chuan ^b   Mcadam, Kevin ^b  

^a CHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Hungary)

^b GR and D   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS GASIFICATION; DEVOLATILIZATION; DISTRIBUTED ACTIVATION ENERGY MODEL; EMPIRICAL MODEL; FIRST ORDER KINETICS; GAS FLOWS; KINETIC SCHEME; LEAST SQUARE; MODEL PARAMETERS; NON-LINEAR HEATING; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; POWER FUNCTIONS; PREEXPONENTIAL FACTOR; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; VIRGINIA;

COMBUSTION; GASIFICATION; OXYGEN; SMOKE; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TOBACCO;

ACTIVATION ENERGY;

EID: 77649176529     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie901180d     Document Type: Article

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