Fluidized bed gasification of Kingston coal and marine microalgae in a spouted bed reactor

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1614-1624

  Alghurabie, Israa K ^a,b   Hasan, Basim O ^b   Jackson, Brent ^a   Kosminski, Adam ^a   Ashman, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b AL NAHRAIN UNIVERSITY   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Agglomeration; Bed sintering; Coal gasification; Fluidised bed gasification; Microalgae gasification; Producer gas; Spouted bed reactor

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT OPERATING CONDITIONS; FLUIDISED BED; FLUIDIZED BED GASIFICATION; FLUIDIZED BED REACTORS; MICRO-ALGAE; OPTIMUM OPERATING CONDITIONS; PRODUCER GAS; SPOUTED-BED REACTOR;

AGGLOMERATION; BIOMASS; COAL; COAL GASIFICATION; EXPERIMENTS; FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING; FLUIDIZED BEDS; LEACHING; MICROORGANISMS; SINTERING;

ALGAE;

EID: 84884978667     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2013.04.024     Document Type: Article

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