Experimental study of combustion in a spark ignition engine operating with producer gas from various biomass feedstocks

Fuel

Volumn 122, Issue , 2014, Pages 126-139

  Tsiakmakis, Stefanos ^a   Mertzis, Dimitrios ^a   Dimaratos, Athanasios ^a   Toumasatos, Zisimos ^a   Samaras, Zissis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biomass; Cogeneration; Gasification; Producer gas; Spark ignition engine

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BLENDING; CALORIFIC VALUE; ENGINES; FEEDSTOCKS; FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; GASES; GASIFICATION; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; POWER GENERATION; PROPANE;

COGENERATION; COMBINED HEAT AND POWER PRODUCTION; COMBUSTION STABILITY; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLUIDIZED BED GASIFIERS; HEAT RELEASE RATE (HRR); HEAT RELEASE RATE ANALYSIS; PRODUCER GAS;

IGNITION;

EID: 84893489080     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2014.01.013     Document Type: Article

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