Comprehensive CFD model of an air-blown coal-fired updraft gasifier

Fuel

Volumn 101, Issue , 2012, Pages 129-138

  Murgia, S ^a   Vascellari, M ^a   Cau, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

CFD; Coal; Gasification; Granular flow; Updraft

Indexed keywords

CFD MODELS; CHAR REACTION; COMPLEX BEHAVIOR; EULER-EULER APPROACH; FIXED BED; GASIFICATION PROCESS; GASIFIERS; GRANULAR FLOWS; HIGH VOLUME FRACTION; MASS AND ENERGY BALANCE; PACKING CONDITIONS; PLASTIC THEORY; SOLID-PHASE; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; TIME-DEPENDENT; UPDRAFT;

COAL; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONFINED FLOW; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

GASIFICATION;

EID: 84865468524     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2011.08.065     Document Type: Article

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