Energy and pressure requirement for compression of Miscanthus giganteus to an extreme density

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-25

  Miao, Zewei ^a   Phillips, James W ^a   Grift, Tony E ^a   Mathanker, Sunil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED PRESSURE; BULK DENSITY; COCOMBUSTION; CONTAINMENT STRUCTURES; FRICTIONAL HEAT GENERATION; LOGISTICS INFRASTRUCTURE; MATERIAL DENSITY; MISCANTHUS; PACKING DENSITY; RAILCARS; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES; UNIVERSAL TESTING MACHINES;

BIOMASS; COAL; PILES;

COAL COMBUSTION;

MISCANTHUS X GIGANTEUS;

EID: 84870555716     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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