The difference in combustion performance between brown coal and black coal blended with
Eucalyptus woodchip and woodchar in varying blending ratios were examined in the air and
oxy firing conditions. On top of the experimental investigation using a drop tube furnace
(DTF), a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was further developed to interpret these
results, validated using the experimental data. The CFD model incorporates a
comprehensive reaction for devolatilisation reaction to predict the gas release utilising …