Washing sorghum biomass with water to improve its quality for combustion

Fuel

Volumn 116, Issue , 2014, Pages 427-431

  Carrillo, M A ^a   Staggenborg, S A ^a   Pineda, J A ^a  

^a Chromatin Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Fouling; Slagging; Sorghum bicolor; Washing

Indexed keywords

EFFECT OF WASHING; FEEDSTOCK PRODUCTION; HERBACEOUS BIOMASS; HIGHER HEATING VALUE; SLAGGING; SLAGGING AND FOULING; SORGHUM BICOLOR; SORGHUM BICOLOR (L.) MOENCH;

ALKALI HALIDES; BIOMASS; BLENDING; COMBUSTION; EXPERIMENTS; FEEDSTOCKS; FOULING; LEAD OXIDE; LIGNIN;

WASHING;

EID: 84883895736     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2013.08.028     Document Type: Article

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