Waste tyre pyrolysis: Modelling of a moving bed reactor

Waste Management

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2530-2536

  Aylon E ^a   Fernandez Colino A ^a   Murillo, R ^a   Grasa, G ^a   Navarro, M V ^a   Garcia T ^a   Mastral, A M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CARBOQUÍMICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY FLUXES; FAST PARTICLE; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; MODEL PREDICTION; MOVING BED REACTORS; NEW MODEL; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PARTICLE RESIDENCE TIME; PREDICTIVE MODELS; REACTION TIME; REACTOR MODELS; SIMULATED RESULTS; SOLID CONVERSION; SUBMODELS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TOTAL SOLIDS;

HEATING; PYROLYSIS; REACTION KINETICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ENERGY FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELING; PYROLYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TIRE; WASTE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; FLOW KINETICS; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS MODEL; PYROLYSIS; REACTION TIME; REACTOR OPTIMIZATION; RUBBER INDUSTRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLID STATE; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ENERGY TRANSFER; INCINERATION; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RUBBER; TEMPERATURE; WASTE PRODUCTS;

EID: 77957665007     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2010.04.018     Document Type: Article

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