- Author
- Holstein, A. | Bassilakis, R. | Wojtowicz, M. A. | Serio, M. A.
- Title
- Kinetics of Methane and Tar Evolution During Coal Pyrolysis.
- Coporate
- Advanced Fuel Research Inc., East Hartford, CT
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute, Symposium (International) on Combustion, 30th. Proceedings. Volume 30. Part 2. July 25-30, 2004, Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, Chicago, IL, Chen, J. H.; Colket, M. D.; Barlow, R. S.; Yetter, R. A., Editors, 2177-2185 p., 2005
- Keywords
- combustion | coal | pyrolysis | kinetics | methane | tar | FT-IR | thermogravimetric analysis | data analysis | equations | temperature
- Identifiers
- compare the pyrolysis behavior of coals coming from different geographic locations (South Africa, South America, Europe, Australia, and North America); kinetics of methane and tar evolution; examine the possible relationship between tar and methane evolution during pyrolysis; elemental analyses of coals used in this study; non-isothermal kinetic analysis; effect of coal rank; compensation effect; initial evolution temperature