Ignition and suppression of smouldering coal fires in smallscale experiments

Fall Technical Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute 2009, WSS/CI 2009 Fall Meeting

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 275-286

  Hadden, R ^a   Rein, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; COMBUSTION; FIRES; PARTICLE SIZE;

BURNING RATE; COAL FIRES; COALBEDS; ENHANCING EFFECT; PER UNIT; SMALL-SCALE EXPERIMENT; SUPPRESSION METHOD; WATER DELIVERY;

COAL COMBUSTION;

EID: 84946058738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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