Pyrolysis Characteristics of Coal, Biomass, and Coal-Biomass Blends under High Heating Rate Conditions: Effects of Particle Diameter, Fuel Type, and Mixing Conditions

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 5036-5046

  Wang, Zhihua ^a   Wan, Kaidi ^a,b   Xia, Jun ^b   He, Yong ^a   Liu, Yingzu ^a   Liu, Jianzhong ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BLENDING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COAL; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); MIXING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTICLE SIZE; PYROLYSIS; SOLVENTS;

CHEMICAL PERCOLATION DEVOLATILIZATION (CPD); EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; PARTICLE TEMPERATURE; PYROLYSIS CHARACTERISTICS; PYROLYSIS EXPERIMENTS; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; SYNERGISTIC INTERACTION;

COAL COMBUSTION;

EID: 84939792201     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.5b00646     Document Type: Article

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