Thermogravimetric study of the combustion of Tetraselmis suecica microalgae and its blend with a Victorian brown coal in O2/N2 and O2/CO2 atmospheres

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 150, Issue , 2013, Pages 15-27

  Tahmasebi, Arash ^a   Kassim, Mohd Asyraf ^c   Yu, Jianglong ^a,b   Bhattacharya, Sankar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LIAONING   (China)

^b SHENYANG AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brown coal; Co combustion; Microalgae; Synergy; Thermogravimetric analysis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ALGAE; CARBON DIOXIDE; LIGNITE; MICROORGANISMS; PROTEINS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

COCOMBUSTION; COMBUSTION CHARACTERISTICS; LOWER TEMPERATURES; MICRO-ALGAE; SYNERGY; TETRASELMIS SUECICA; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC STUDIES; VICTORIAN BROWN COAL;

COAL COMBUSTION;

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; LIGNITE; LIPID; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PROTEIN;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GREEN ALGA; LIGNITE; MARINE TECHNOLOGY; MICROALGA; OXYGEN; PROTEIN; THERMOGRAVIMETRY;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; COMBUSTION; ENERGY RESOURCE; MICROALGA; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; TETRASELMIS SUECICA; THERMOGRAVIMETRY;

TETRASELMIS SUECICA;

BROWN COAL; CO-COMBUSTION; MICROALGAE; SYNERGY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COAL; KINETICS; MICROALGAE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; THERMOGRAVIMETRY;

EID: 84885832297     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.09.113     Document Type: Article

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