“…However, the thermal histories of coal particles in the experimental facilities can be different from that in the actual large scale boilers because the scale of flame can affect the heat transfer mechanism of the coal particles. Experimental apparatus with various sizes, e. g., the drop tube furnace (8-60 g-coal/h) [21,22], the small coal jet burner (0.5 kg-coal/h) [11,23], the triple stream burner (0.36-2.16 kg-coal/h) [24,25], the RWTH furnace (6-7 kg-coal/h) [26,27], the RWEn Combustion Test Facility (70 kg-coal/h) [28], the BEACH furnace (100 kg-coal/h) [13,29,30,31], the IFRF furnace No. 1 (260 kg-coal/h) [32] and the MARINE furnace (300 kg-coal/h) [19,33], have been used to investigate the coal combustion phenomena or to evaluate the combustion characteristics of various coal brands by some researchers.…”