Numerical analysis of cement calciner fuel efficiency and pollutant emissions

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 489-499

  Mikulčić, Hrvoje ^a   Von Berg, Eberhard ^b   Vujanović, Milan ^a   Priesching, Peter ^b   Tatschl, Reinhard ^b   Duić, Neven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b AVL LIST GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Calcination process; Cement calciner; Fuel efficiency; Numerical modeling; Pollutant emissions

Indexed keywords

CALCINATION; CEMENTS; COAL; COAL COMBUSTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EFFICIENCY; LIME; LIMESTONE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODELS; POLLUTION; TURBULENT FLOW; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CALCINERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS CODES; CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; FUEL EFFICIENCY; LIMESTONE PARTICLES; POLLUTANT EMISSION; PULVERIZED COAL COMBUSTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY;

PULVERIZED FUEL;

EID: 84879409246     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-013-0607-5     Document Type: Article

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