Changes in moisture, carbon, nitrogen, sulphur, volatiles, and calorific value of miscanthus during torrefaction

AIChE Annual Meeting, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tumuluru, Jaya Shankar ^a   Boardman, Richard ^a   Wright, Christopher ^a  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical composition; Miscanthus; Torrefaction temperature and time

Indexed keywords

CARBON CONTENT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; DETECTION LIMITS; FREE CARBON; MAXIMUM DEGREE; MINIMUM VALUE; MISCANTHUS; MOISTURE CONTENTS; REGRESSION EQUATION; RESIDENCE TIME; SURFACE PLOTS; TORREFACTION TEMPERATURE AND TIME;

CALORIFIC VALUE; CARBONIZATION; COKE; NITROGEN; SULFUR;

MOISTURE;

EID: 78751472645     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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