CFD modelling of air-fired and oxy-fuel combustion of lignite in a 100 KW furnace

Fuel

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1778-1795

  Al Abbas, Audai Hussein ^a   Naser, Jamal ^a   Dodds, David ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coal combustion; Heat transfer; Oxy fuel combustion; Swirl effect

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC STABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLAME RESEARCH; FURNACES; GLASS FURNACES; HEAT TRANSFER; IGNITION; LIGNITE; OXYGEN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PULVERIZED FUEL; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

FLAME TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; IGNITION CONDITIONS; OXYFUEL COMBUSTION; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER; SPECIES CONCENTRATION; SWIRL EFFECT;

COAL COMBUSTION;

EID: 79952535338     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2011.01.014     Document Type: Article

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