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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Wood pellets"”.
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Hydrochar Enhanced Wood Pellets
… to design a process to manufacture industrial wood pellets with superior handling capabilities to traditional wood pellets without sacrificing the energy density of the pellets and conforming to standards. In the design of the process, the objectives were to minimize cost, environmental …
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Torrefied wood pellets as an alternative fuel to coal : climate benefits and social desirability of production and use
… returns and social desirability of torrefied wood pellet production and use as an alternative fuel to coal. The raw material of torrefied pellets is forest chips and production and use are assumed to take place in Finland. Climate impacts are assessed with focus on the full fuel chain, or the …
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Investigation of the conversion of fuels in the presence of solid oxygen carriers and the development of a plasma-assisted chemical looping system for H2 production
… than expected. Combustion of biomass (wood pellets), by Fe2O3 or mayenite-supported CuO was studied in a fluidised bed. This was to understand how efficient the wood pellets were combusted by the oxygen carriers, as well as the distribution of the products. A tar measurement system, …
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The effect of pellets physical properties on handling pelleted biomass material in practical use
… research investigated two important aspects of wood pellet production and use; (a) the effect of varying pelleting process parameters (i.e. steam moisture content, conditioning temperature) and feedstocks species (Pine and Alder wood powder) on the mechanical strength and durability of the …
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Evaluation of wood biomass utilization for the greenhouse industry in British Columbia
… greenhouse industry is considering the use of wood biomass, mainly wood pellets and wood residue, to decrease the natural gas demand. However, the long-term economic value, the air quality emission, and the long-term resource availability are the main barriers for the industry to convert into …
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Prospects for increased low-grade bio-fuels use in home and commercial heating applications
… a high quality fuel. Solid biomass fuels such as wood-pellets, switchgrass-pellets, and corn can displace up to 2% of the U.S. petroleum market through displacing oil used in home and commercial heating. Current technologies are inexpensive enough to enable consumers to save money by heating with …
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Evaluating the use of renewable fuel sources to heat flue-cured tobacco barns
… and cost of curing flue-cured tobacco with a wood pellet burner. Additionally, field studies were conducted to evaluate the feasibility of on-farm production of biomass fuel crops as well as on-farm manufacture of biomass fuel pellets. The first time use of a wood pellet burner with an …
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Small-Scale Batch-Fed Biomass Gasification and Combustion
… the best combustion conditions for the utilised wood chips. While focussing on the thermochemical conversion process of wood pellets, a fivefold increase of the primary air led to a rise from approximately 800°C to 1100°C, of the peak temperature, and from 33% to 73%, of the cold gas efficiency. …
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Life Cycle Environmental and Cost Evaluation of Bioenergy Systems
… 9% at a cost of $70-$84/tonne CO2 equivalent for wood pellets ($160/tonne pellets delivered), on the basis of one kWh of electricity generated (all costs are in U.S. dollars). One hundred percent pellet firing reduces GHG emissions by 91% compared to the coal system; however, the cost of GHG …
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Catalystic Pyrolysis for the Production of Stable Phenol Rich Bio-Oil from Wood Biomass
… Saskatchewan, there is abundant availability of wood waste from the timber industry; hence wood can be used as biomass raw material for the production of bio-chemicals. Pyrolysis is the most promising technology for the conversion of biomass into liquids. In this research, wood pellets obtained …
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Détermination de la broyabilité des plaquettes et des pellets de bois
… pour la biomasse et concernant le broyage des pellets de bois aucune donnée ne semble disponible. Cette étude s’inspire des théories du broyage utilisées par de l’industrie traitant les minerais (théories de Von Rittinger, Kick et Bond, rassemblées en une relation unique grâce aux travaux de …
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Optimisation of Co-Firing of High Moisture Biomass with Coal in a Bubbling Fluidised Bed Combustor
… Sugar.<br/><br/>Different fuels including wood pellets, wood chips and sugar industry by-products such as vinasse, raffinate and pressed pulp were fired/cofired with Thoresby coal in a fluidised bed test rig installed at the University of Glamorgan. The blends of wood chips and pressed pulp …