Gasification of a dried sewage sludge in a laboratory scale fixed bed reactor

Energies

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 8562-8572

  Werle, Sebastian ^a  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Fixed bed installation; Gasification; Operating parameters; Sewage sludge; Syngas

Indexed keywords

AIR PREHEATERS; CALORIFIC VALUE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHEMICAL REACTORS; PREHEATING; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SYNTHESIS GAS;

DRIED SEWAGE SLUDGE; ENDOTHERMIC GASIFICATION; FIXED BED; GASIFICATION PROCESS; OPERATING PARAMETERS; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; SEWAGE SLUDGE GASIFICATION; SYN-GAS;

GASIFICATION;

EID: 84941694877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en8088562     Document Type: Article

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