Parametric investigation of a renewable alternative for utilities adopting the co-firing lignite/biomass concept

Fuel

Volumn 113, Issue , 2013, Pages 873-897

  Nikolopoulos, N ^a   Agraniotis, M ^a,b,e   Violidakis, I ^a,e   Karampinis, E ^a,c,e   Nikolopoulos, A ^a,c,e   Grammelis, P ^a,e   Papapavlou, Ch ^d,f   Tzivenis, S ^d,f   Kakaras, E ^a,c,e  

^a INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b Clean Energy Ltd   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d Public Power Corporation   (Greece)

^e NONE   (Greece)

^f NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biomass; CFD; Co firing; Economic evaluation; Lignite

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961708304     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2013.03.034     Document Type: Article

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