Desulfurization of selected hard and brown coal samples from India and Indonesia with Ralstonia sp and Pseudoxanthomonas sp

Energy Exploration and Exploitation

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 985-998

  Singh, Asha ^a   Singh, Prakash ^a   Kumar, Aniruddha ^a   Singh, M ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Coal samples; Desulfurization; Pseudoxanthomonas sp; Ralstonia sp; Total sulfur (S_{t< sub>)}

Indexed keywords

COAL SAMPLE; COALFIELDS; INDONESIA; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PSEUDOXANTHOMONAS SP; RALSTONIA; TOTAL SULFUR;

COAL DEPOSITS; LIGNITE; SULFUR;

DESULFURIZATION;

EID: 84870039069     PISSN: 01445987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0144-5987.30.6.985     Document Type: Article

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