Optimized steam boiler for soil steam disinfection: Structural design, CFD simulation, and field application

Sipu Pan

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0340080

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Optimized steam boiler for soil steam disinfection: Structural design, CFD simulation, and field application

Sipu Pan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: 1127196122@qq.com

Affiliation College of Transportation Engineering, Nanjing Vocational University of Industry Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3668-8591

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Optimized steam boiler for soil steam disinfection: Structural design, CFD simulation, and field application

Sipu Pan

Published: December 26, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0340080

About the Authors

Sipu Pan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: 1127196122@qq.com

Affiliation College of Transportation Engineering, Nanjing Vocational University of Industry Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3668-8591

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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