Numerical investigation of pyrolysis of a Loy Yang coal in a lab-scale furnace at elevated pressures

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1725-1732

  Hart, James ^a   Al Abbas, Audai Hussein ^b   Naser, Jamal ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b FOUNDATION OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION   (Iraq)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRHENIUS REACTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; DROP TUBE FURNACES; LAB-SCALE FURNACES; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARTICLE RESIDENCE TIME; SINGLE REACTION MODELS;

COAL; COMBUSTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ISOTHERMS; RATE CONSTANTS;

FURNACES;

EID: 84887818909     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: 14321181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-013-1205-0     Document Type: Article

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