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Improvements in the ecological safety of thermal process plants on conversion to a water-carbon fuel

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The feasibility of a new type of fuel — water-carbon suspension (WCC) produced on the basis of hydrodynamic-cavitation effects — is examined.

It is demonstrated that the rate of the combustion reaction of WCC is higher than that during the burning of coal dust.

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Translated from Khimicheskoe i Neftegazovoe Mashinostroenie, No. 7, pp. 11–12, July, 2006.

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Kulagina, T.A., Troshkin, O.A. Improvements in the ecological safety of thermal process plants on conversion to a water-carbon fuel. Chem Petrol Eng 42, 367–371 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10556-006-0109-y

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