Burnout of pulverized biomass particles in large scale boiler - Single particle model approach

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 728-736

  Saastamoinen, Jaakko ^a   Aho, Martti ^a   Moilanen, Antero ^a   Sørensen, Lasse Holst ^b   Clausen, Sønnik ^c   Berg, Mogens ^d  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b ReaTech   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d Energi E2 AS Denmark   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biomass; Combustion; Measurements; Modelling; Particles; Pulverized

Indexed keywords

BOILERS; COAL; COAL COMBUSTION; COMBUSTION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MEASUREMENT; MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE;

BIOMASS PARTICLE; COMBUSTION MODEL; ENTRAINED FLOW REACTOR; LARGE SCALE BOILERS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL EQUATION; PULVERIZED; PULVERIZED BIOMASS; SINGLE-PARTICLE MODEL;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS BURNING; COAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; RESIDENCE TIME;

EID: 77951254202     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2010.01.015     Document Type: Article

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