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Devolatilization behavior of Australian bituminous coal-gasification was determined in a 0.1 m diameter fluidized bed at 650-900 °C. To predict gas yields from devolatilization, several correlations reported for gas yields were evaluated with the present experimental data. The correlation of Goyal and Rehmat [1993] was found to be good one. Also, a correlation for the product gas yields has been proposed from devolatilization of bituminous coals as a linear function of temperature with constants from the experiment. The experimental yields of product gas show good agreement with the values calculated by the proposed correlation.
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Song, BH., Jang, YW., Kim, SD. et al. Gas yields from coal devolatilization in a bench-scale fluidized bed reactor. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 18, 770–774 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02706399
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