Clarifying the terms of heating values

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Clarifying the terms of heating values Lee, Jun Sian

Abstract

Because heating value of fuels is described in many mass basis and thermodynamic conditions, the heating terms used in peer-reviewed literatures and reports have not been consistent. This short note aims to define and clarify the different uses of four most commonly used heating value terms, which are high heating value (HHV) or gross calorific value (GCV), low heating value (LHV), gross heating value (GHV) and net calorific value or net heating value (NCV or NHV), in the context of biomass fuels.

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Title	Clarifying the terms of heating values
Creator	Lee, Jun Sian
Date Issued	2017
Description	Because heating value of fuels is described in many mass basis and thermodynamic conditions, the heating terms used in peer-reviewed literatures and reports have not been consistent. This short note aims to define and clarify the different uses of four most commonly used heating value terms, which are high heating value (HHV) or gross calorific value (GCV), low heating value (LHV), gross heating value (GHV) and net calorific value or net heating value (NCV or NHV), in the context of biomass fuels.
Subject	Heating values; calorific values; biomass
Genre	Article
Type	Text
Language	eng
Series	University of British Columbia. CHBE 486
Date Available	2017-04-05
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0343474
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61120
Affiliation	Applied Science, Faculty of; Chemical and Biological Engineering, Department of
Campus	UBCV
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Graduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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