Impact of torrefaction on the grindability and fuel characteristics of forest biomass.

By Manunya Phanphanich, Sudhagar Mani. Bioresource Technology, 2011

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials

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Citations in the corpus

• Biochar: a synthesis of its agronomic impact beyond carbon sequestration. (2012, background): “Adding biochar to soils may produce immediate eff ects on properties such as soil nutrition, water retention, or microbial activity (Atkinson et al., 2010; Lehmann et al., 2011), although these eff ects vary † References: Torrefacation (Bridgeman et al., 2008; Repellin et al., 2010; Phanphanich and ”
• Effect of torrefaction on physiochemical characteristics and grindability of stem wood, stump and bark (2018, background): “torrefaction of biomass has gained continuous interests in the past decade [1, 5, 6, 9, 10].”
• Torrefaction and low-temperature carbonization of woody biomass: evaluation of fuel characteristics of the products. (2012, background): “Various studies on torrefied biomass have been carried out, focusing on energy balance [5], grindability improvement [6,7], and fuel characteristics [7 10].”
• Production of solid fuel biochar from waste biomass by low temperature pyrolysis (2015, background): “Compared to liquid and gaseous products, only a few studies have been carried out with the aim of producing solid fuel biochars from waste biomass, and most of these studies focused on the improved physicochemical properties of woody biomass [9–16].”
• Influence of Chemical Composition of Eucalyptus Wood on Gravimetric Yield and Charcoal Properties (2013, background): “The C-C bonds are more stable than the C-O bonds, therefore requiring more energy for their degradation (Phanphanich and Mani 2011) and about 60% of the elementary carbon in its composition and 35% of oxygen (Pereira 2012).”
• Isothermal torrefaction kinetics of hemicellulose, cellulose, lignin and xylan using thermogravimetr (2011, positive): “Regarding the applications of torrefaction, the study of Phanphanich and Mani [9] has reported that torrefaction could improve grinding properties of biomass and make the fuel characteristics, such as fixed carbon and heating value, closer to coal.”
• Future Perspectives of Biomass Torrefaction: Review of the Current State-Of-The-Art and Research Development (2018, background): “There is also a 90% decrease in energy consumption for the grinded torrefied biomass chips compared to non-torrefied wood chips [58].”
• A review of wood thermal pretreatments to improve wood composite properties (2013, neutral): “2009), reducing energy consumption during grinding (Bridgeman et al. 2010; Repellin et al. 2010b; Phanphanich and Mani 2011).”