A steady state model for predicting performance of small-scale up-draft coal gasifiers

Fuel

Volumn 152, Issue , 2015, Pages 3-12

  Cau, Giorgio ^a   Tola, Vittorio ^a   Pettinau, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b SOTACARBO S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fixed bed gasifier; Simulation model; Steady state

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COAL; COAL GASIFICATION PLANTS; COGENERATION PLANTS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DRYING; FORECASTING; HEAT TRANSFER; ONE DIMENSIONAL; OPTIMIZATION; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; REACTION KINETICS; SYNTHESIS GAS; TEMPERATURE;

COMBINED HEAT AND POWER GENERATION; CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS; GASIFIERS; MASS AND ENERGY BALANCE; SIMULATION MODEL; STEADY STATE; STEADY-STATE SIMULATIONS; THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA;

GASIFICATION;

EID: 84937763520     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2015.03.047     Document Type: Article

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