Char burnout characteristics of five coals below and above ash flow temperature: TG, SEM, and EDS analysis

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 103, Issue , 2016, Pages 1156-1163

  Zeng, Xiongwei ^a   Zheng, Shu ^b   Zhou, Huaichun ^b   Fang, Qingyan ^a   Lou, Chun ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

Ash flow temperature; Char burnout characteristics; Coal combustion; EDS; SEM; TG

Indexed keywords

COAL; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ASH FLOW; CHAR BURNOUT CHARACTERISTICS; COMBUSTION TEMPERATURES; FIXED TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INITIAL WEIGHTS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYZERS;

COAL COMBUSTION;

EID: 84966392096     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2016.05.025     Document Type: Article

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