Effects of air staging and load on fine-particle and gaseous emissions from a small-scale pellet boiler

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4952-4960

  Lamberg, Heikki ^a   Sippula, Olli ^a   Tissari, Jarkko ^a   Jokiniemi, Jorma ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR RATIO; AIR STAGING; AIR/FUEL RATIO; CARBONACEOUS PARTICLES; COMBUSTION AIR; COMBUSTION SYSTEMS; FINE PARTICLES; FULL-LOAD; GEOMETRIC MEAN; INCOMPLETE COMBUSTION; LOAD OPERATIONS; MEASURED POINTS; METAL EMISSIONS; PARTIAL LOAD; PARTICLE EMISSIONS; PELLET BOILER; PRIMARY AIR; SECONDARY AIR; WOOD PELLET;

BOILERS; COMBUSTION; EXPERIMENTS;

PELLETIZING;

EID: 81555209895     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef2010578     Document Type: Article

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