Assessing biomass steam gasification technologies using a multi-purpose model

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 129, Issue , 2016, Pages 216-226

  Sepe, Angelo Maria ^a   Li, Jun ^b   Paul, Manosh C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomass; Gasification technology; High temperature steam gasification; Numerical modelling; Solar assisted gasification

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SOLAR ENERGY; STEAM; SYNTHESIS GAS;

BIOMASS GASIFICATION; GASIFICATION REACTION; GASIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES; HIGH TEMPERATURE AIR; HIGH TEMPERATURE STEAM GASIFICATIONS; PROCESS EFFICIENCY; SOLAR ASSISTED; STEADY-STATE MODELING;

GASIFICATION;

EID: 84991573965     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2016.10.018     Document Type: Article

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