Biomass-fuelled integrated power and refrigeration system

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 249-258

  Srinivas, T ^a,b   Reddy, B V ^b   Gupta, A V S S K S ^c  

^a VIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^c Department of Mechanical Engineering   (India)

Author keywords

Gasification; Heat recovery; Refrigeration; Thermo chemical equilibrium

Indexed keywords

AIR FUEL RATIOS; BIOMASS FUELS; BIOMASS GASIFICATION; COOLING EFFECTS; FUEL RATIO; GAS COMPOSITIONS; GASIFIERS; INTEGRATED GASIFICATION COMBINED CYCLE PLANTS; INTEGRATED PLANTS; INTEGRATED POWER; OPTIMUM CONDITIONS; PEAK LOAD; PLANT EFFICIENCY; POWER BOOSTING; POWER OUT PUT; REFRIGERATION SYSTEM; STACK TEMPERATURE; SUPPLEMENTARY FIRING; THERMO-CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM; THERMOCHEMICAL MODELS;

ABSORPTION COOLING; BIOMASS; COGENERATION PLANTS; FUELS; GASIFICATION; INTEGRATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SOLID WASTES; VALUE ENGINEERING; WASTE HEAT;

ABSORPTION REFRIGERATION;

EID: 79960195872     PISSN: 09576509     EISSN: 20412967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2041296710394284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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