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Investigation on the spontaneous combustion of refuse-derived fuels
Refuse-derived fuel (RDF), a high-caloric material, is used by various combustion processes, such as power plants, as alternative fuel. Several explosion accidents, however, possibly initiated by the spontaneous combustion of stored RDF, have been ...
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Is England`s Warm Front Programme Going to Improve the Country`s Health?
There have been a number of initiatives in the UK to increase the energy efficiency of homes by offering improvements to thermal performance through grant schemes. Although the outcomes of these schemes are often linked to health, inherent problems ...
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Effect of drying on leaching testing of treated municipal solid waste incineration APC-residues
Air-pollution-control (APC) residues from waste incinerators are hazardous waste according to European legislation and must be treated prior to landfilling. Batch and column leaching data determine which type of landfill can receive the treated ...
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An Integral Model for Wood Auto-ignition under Variable Heat Flux
A one-dimensional integral model that predicts the auto-ignition time of wood under linearly increasing radiant heat flux is developed. The solution to the integral model for the ignition time is compared with measured data. Reasonable comparative ...