Specific energy consumption for reducing the size of alfalfa chops using a hammer mill

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-40

  Ghorbani, Z ^a   Masoumi, A A ^a   Hemmat, A ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; HAMMERS; SCREEN PRINTING;

DOWNSTREAM PROCESS; ENERGY REQUIREMENTS; LINEAR MODELING; SCREEN SIZES; SIZE REDUCTIONS; SPECIFIC ENERGY; SPECIFIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION; SPECIFIC ENERGY REQUIREMENT;

GRINDING MILLS;

MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 74149088723     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2009.09.006     Document Type: Article

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