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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 437186, 13 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/437186
Research Article

Modeling Performance of High-Temperature Biomass Gasification Process

C. F. Mhilu

College of Engineering and Technology, University of Dar es Salaam, P.O. Box 35131, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Received 20 July 2012; Accepted 10 August 2012

Academic Editors: J. Canosa and A. M. Seayad

Copyright © 2012 C. F. Mhilu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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