Production and quality of biomass fuels from mechanized collection and processing of vineyard pruning residues

Applied Energy

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 374-379

  Spinelli, Raffaele ^a   Nati, Carla ^a   Pari, Luigi ^b   Mescalchin, Enzo ^c   Magagnotti, Natascia ^a  

^a CNR IVALSA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^c RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contamination; Heating value; Moisture content; Particle size distribution

Indexed keywords

BOILER FIRING; CALORIFIC VALUE; CONTAMINATION; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; HARVESTING; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RECOVERY; WINE;

BIOMASS FUELS; CENTRAL ITALY; ENERGY USE; FIELD TRIAL; FOREST FUEL; HEATING VALUE; HIGHER HEATING VALUE; MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES; MOISTURE CONTENTS; SOURCES OF VARIABILITY; VINEYARD MANAGEMENT;

FUELS;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BIOFUEL; BIOMASS POWER; CELLULOSE; ENERGY USE; HARVESTING; HEATING; LIGNIN; MACHINERY; MOISTURE CONTENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PESTICIDE; PLANT RESIDUE; PRUNING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VINEYARD;

ITALY;

VITACEAE;

EID: 80053332871     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.07.049     Document Type: Article

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