Microwave treatment of Morwell brown coal to determine the viability of microwave coal drying as an industrial concern

14th International Conference on Microwave and High Frequency Heating, AMPERE 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 43-46

  Binner, Eleanor ^a   Lester, Ed ^a   Chaffee, Alan ^b   Kingman, Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bound water; Brown coal; Drying; Microwave

Indexed keywords

COAL; LIGNITE; MICROWAVE HEATING; MICROWAVES;

BOUND WATERS; CONVENTIONAL DRYING; DRYING EFFICIENCY; ENERGY REQUIREMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; MICROWAVE DRYING; MICROWAVE TREATMENT; SINGLE-MODE MICROWAVES;

DRYING;

EID: 85013828020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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