Numerical study of one air-fired and two oxy-fuel combustion cases of propane in a 100 kW furnace

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 952-967

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

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATIONS; CHEMISTRY MECHANISM; COMBUSTIBLE GAS; COMBUSTION CHARACTERISTICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; EMPIRICAL COEFFICIENTS; FLAME STABILITY; FLAME ZONES; GASEOUS FUEL; INJECTION SYSTEMS; LOW OXYGEN; MEASURED DATA; MULTI-STEP; MULTISTEP REACTIONS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OXYFUEL COMBUSTION; PROPANE COMBUSTION; RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER; SINGLE-STEP; SPECIES CONCENTRATION; TEMPERATURE LEVEL; TURBULENT NON-PREMIXED; VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FUELS; FURNACES; PROPANE;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 84857420137     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef201713h     Document Type: Article

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