Deposit formation and emissions from co-firing miscanthus with Daw Mill coal: Pilot plant experiments

Fuel

Volumn 101, Issue , 2012, Pages 53-61

  Khodier, A H M ^a   Hussain, T ^a   Simms, N J ^a   Oakey, J E ^a   Kilgallon, P J ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Doosan Energy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomass; Co firing; Emissions; Superheater deposition; Thermodynamic modelling

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; CO-FIRING; COMBUSTION GAS; COMBUSTION PRO-CESS; COMBUSTION TEST; DAW MILL; DEPOSIT FORMATION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY; ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES (ESEM); FEED-RATES; FTIR; FUEL MIXTURES; GAS COMPOSITIONS; HEAT EXCHANGER TUBE; HIGH RESOLUTION; MISCANTHUS; MULTICOMPONENTS; ONLINE MONITORING; PILOT PLANT EXPERIMENTS; PILOT SCALE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE PROBES; THERMODYNAMIC MODELLING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; DEPOSITS; FLUE GASES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FUELS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PILOT PLANTS; PROBES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

COAL COMBUSTION;

EID: 84865530329     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2011.09.029     Document Type: Article

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