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Densification of Biomass. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 360
To reduce dependency on fossil fuels, there is
tremendous interest in using biomass feedstocks for
producing fuels, heat, power, chemicals, and
bio-products. Biomass feedstocks such as corn stover
and switchgrass are often collected in baled forms,
which involve a lot of handling, storage, and
transportation costs because of low bulk density of
bales. Densification of biomass feedstocks into
briquettes and pellets can reduce the cost and
increase the efficiency of handling, storage,
transportation, and use of biomass feedstocks. This
book provides the fundamentals of densification
mechanisms of biomass feedstocks studied using a
laboratory-scale densification apparatus, a
pilot-scale roll press briquetting machine, a
pilot-scale ring-die pelleting machine, and
constitutive modeling. This book reveals that the
NATURAL BINDERS in the biomass feedstocks such as
lignin, protein, starch and sugars can be activated
using moisture and temperature (steam) to manufacture
high quality briquettes and pellets without adding
chemical additives (binders). This book is a very
useful resource for briquetting and pelleting
industries as well as biomass densification researchers.
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