Brown Coal Drying in a Fluidized Bed Applying a Low-Temperature Gaseous Medium

Drying Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1334-1342

  Pawlak Kruczek, H ^a   Plutecki, Z ^b   Michalski, M ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b OPOLE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Brown coal drying; Energy consumption; Fluidized bed dryer; Numerical modelling

Indexed keywords

COAL MINES; DRYERS (EQUIPMENT); ENERGY UTILIZATION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; LIGNITE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COAL DRYING; DIFFERENT PARTICLE SIZES; FLUIDIZED BED DRYERS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MASS AND HEAT EXCHANGE; OPTIMAL CONSTRUCTION; OPTIMAL PARAMETER;

DRYING;

EID: 84904244971     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2014.909845     Document Type: Article

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