Diversity of chemical composition and combustion reactivity of various biomass fuels

Fuel

Volumn 147, Issue , 2015, Pages 161-169

  Qin, Ke ^a   Thunman, Henrik ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biomass; Char combustion; Chemical composition; Kinetics; Pellets

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; COMBUSTION; ENZYME KINETICS; KINETICS; ORE PELLETS; PELLETIZING; REACTION KINETICS; WOOD FUELS;

ACTIVATION ENERGY E; CHAR COMBUSTION; CHARACTERISTIC TEMPERATURE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; PREEXPONENTIAL FACTOR; SHRINKING PARTICLE MODELS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYZERS; TWO-REACTION MODELS;

BIOMASS;

EID: 84939223030     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2015.01.047     Document Type: Article

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