A fundamental study of the combustion process of coal-water mixtures has been performed. The surface and center temperatures and the weight change of a single droplet under combustion were measured in detail, where the water content, properties of coal, initial diameter of droplet, and external heat flux were parameters. In the experiments, an infrared intensive laser was used as the external heat source to simulate the conditions around the droplets atomized in an actual furnace.
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