Self-Sustained Smoldering Combustion of a Coal-Waste Heap in Central Scotland

Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 395-405

  Torrance, Keith W ^a   Rein, Guillermo ^b   Switzer, Christine ^a   Carvel, Richard ^b   Hadden, Rory ^c   Belcher, Claire M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WASTE INCINERATION;

COAL WASTES; SCOTLAND; SMOLDERING COMBUSTION;

COAL COMBUSTION;

EID: 84892868773     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59412-9.00020-X     Document Type: Chapter

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