Numerical simulation of brown coal combustion in a 550 MW tangentially-fired furnace under different operating conditions

Fuel

Volumn 107, Issue , 2013, Pages 688-698

  Al Abbas, Audai Hussein ^a   Naser, Jamal ^b   Hussein, Emad Kamil ^a  

^a FOUNDATION OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION   (Iraq)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

CFD; Coal combustion; Emissions; Victorian brown coal

Indexed keywords

BOILERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COAL; COAL FIRED BOILERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FUNCTIONS; FURNACES; HEAT TREATING FURNACES; LIGNITE; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODELS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

COMBUSTION CHARACTERISTICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; DIFFERENT OPERATING CONDITIONS; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; STANDARD OPERATING CONDITIONS; TANGENTIALLY FIRED FURNACES; USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS; VICTORIAN BROWN COAL;

COAL COMBUSTION;

EID: 84878348292     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2012.11.054     Document Type: Article

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