Aerosol formation from pulverized coal combustion. Quarterly report No. 6

A detailed comparison of aerosol particle size distributions reported in the literature and measured distributions is presented. The literature data represents a wide range of experimental systems (drop tube studies, laboratory combustors and full scale power plants), sampling locations, combustion conditions, coal types (bituminous, subbituminous and lignite coals), and particle size instrumentation (optical, electrical, diffusion battery, impaction and microscopic techniques). While a great deal of variation was seen in results, both with respect to the literature data and with respect to comparison of that data this data, there were nonetheless many similarities in the qualitative aspects of all studies.