Eulerian model for municipal solid waste gasification in a fixed-bed plasma gasification melting reactor

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4129-4137

  Zhang, Qinglin ^a   Dor, Liran ^b   Yang, Weihong ^a   Blasiak, Wlodzimierz ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Environmental Energy Resources Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAR REACTION; CHEMICAL ENERGY; COLD GAS EFFICIENCY; ENERGY CONVERSION RATIO; EQUIVALENCE RATIOS; EULER-EULER; EULERIAN MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FIXED FLOW; FIXED-BED; GASPHASE; HOMOGENEOUS REACTION; INORGANIC COMPONENTS; MULTIPHASE MODEL; PEAK TEMPERATURES; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PILOT REACTORS; PLASMA GASIFICATION; PLASMA POWER; POSITIVE EFFECTS; SYNGAS COMPOSITION; TOTAL ENERGY; WASTE TO ENERGY;

CRACKING (CHEMICAL); ENERGY CONVERSION; GASIFICATION; MELTING; PLASMAS; SYNTHESIS GAS;

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

EID: 80052911052     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef200383j     Document Type: Article

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