Thermodynamic optimisation and computational analysis of irreversibilities in a small-scale wood-fired circulating fluidised bedadiabatic combustor

Energy

Volumn 70, Issue , 2014, Pages 653-663

  Baloyi, J ^a,b   Bello Ochende, T ^c   Meyer, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adiabatic combustor; Entropy generation rate; Exergy; Irreversibilities; Optimisation

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; ENTROPY; EXERGY; FLUIDIZATION; FRICTION; FUELS; MIXTURES; PRESSURE DROP;

COMBUSTION PRO-CESS; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ENTROPY GENERATION RATE; EQUIVALENCE RATIOS; FRICTIONAL PRESSURE DROPS; IRREVERSIBILITIES; NON-PREMIXED COMBUSTION MODELS; OPTIMISATIONS;

COMBUSTORS;

ADIABATIC PROCESS; BIOREACTOR; ENTROPY; EXERGY; OPTIMIZATION; POWER GENERATION; PRESSURE DROP; THERMODYNAMICS; WOOD;

EID: 84901651515     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2014.04.052     Document Type: Article

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