Pulverizing is an essential unit operation in co-firing biomass with coal.Pulverizers are only compatible with pellet forms of fibrous biomass materials and crush them down to their original forming particle sizes.Tha...
supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Southwest Jiaotong University,supported by Sichuan Science and Technology Program(2021YFS0284).
Hydrothermal carbonization is highly applicable to high moisture biomass upgrading due to the fact that moist-ure involved can be directly used as reaction media under the subcritical-water region.With this,value-adde...
This work was funded by grants from Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada,with additional support from Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve and the Ontario Mining Association.
A number of processes for post-production treatment of“raw”biochars,including leaching,aeration,grinding or sieving to reduce particle size,and chemical or steam activation,have been suggested as means to enhance bi...
A comparison of traditional and mobile wood pellet mills found that mobile systems had higher production costs. Wildfire suppression costs have consistently exceeded British Columbia’s budget set for such activities....
This paper analyzes the implications on employment, taxation, and wildfire fuel reduction costs when using mobile pellet mills to remove biomass and reduce wildfire fuels. Wildfire s...
Our most sincere thanks to the São Paulo Research Foundation(Fapesp)for funding this work[Grant number 24234-1].
Burning down on semi-solid by-product from distillation of cellulosic ethanol to power upstream steps of its manufacturing is usual.However,this feedstock is homogenous in size and shape,hygroscopic and poorly energet...
Agricultural and agro-processing sector produces large stream of by-products that are either discarded or are underutilized.Lignocellulosic biomass especially crop residues’potential to green energy development has b...
We acknowledge that this work was supported by the Jiangsu Provincial Funds for Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements(BA2017081).
A multi-hole pelletizing device(MPD)was proposed to simulate the granular extrusion process of animal feed due to its cheap,fast,and controllable features.The compression mechanism was analyzed and discussed according...
Thermal treatment of biomass has been attracting attention for a decade or so, especially torrefaction. However, for the past few years, wet pyrolysis, also known as hydrothermal carbonization (HTC), has been getting ...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51474161);the Hunan Provincial Co-innovation Center for Clean and Efficient Utilization of Strategic Metal Mineral Resources
Indian hematite fines normally have a high iron grade and minor impurities; they are usually used as sinter fines for feeding into a blast furnace. In this work, the grindability properties of two kinds of Indian hema...