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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"wood pellet"”.
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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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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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Assessing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation Potential through the use of Forest Bioenergy
… carbon associated with bioenergy production. Wood pellet production from standing trees or harvest residues (displacing coal in electricity generation) would increase total GHG emissions over periods of approximately 40 and 15 years, respectively. Ethanol production (displacing gasoline) would …
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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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Torrefaction and Steam Explosion of Selected Biomass for Biofuel Production
… demonstrated great potential as feedstock for pellet production, notwithstanding the fact that the industrial production of pellet is faced with some economic challenges. Pretreatment research has been focused on identifying, evaluating, developing, and demonstrating promising approaches that …