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Removal of fly-ash and dust particulate matters from syngas produced by gasification of coal by using a multi-stage dual-flow sieve plate wet scrubber

Swamy KurellaDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
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Bhim Charan MeikapDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India;Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, Howard College, University of Kwazulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 870-876 | Received 14 Jan 2016, Published online: 26 May 2016

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