Simulation Study for Pneumatic Conveying Drying of Sawdust for Pellet Production

Drying Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1142-1156

  Bhattarai, Sujala ^a,b   Oh, Jae Heun ^c   Euh, Seung Hee ^a   Kim, Dae Hyun ^a   Yu, Liang ^b  

^a Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Korea Forest Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biomass; CFD; Heat and mass transfer; Mathematical modeling; Powder technology; Wood drying

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; AIR; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BIOMASS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRYING; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATLAB; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PELLETIZING; PNEUMATIC CONVEYORS; PNEUMATICS;

FINAL MOISTURE CONTENT; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; INITIAL MOISTURE CONTENT; ONE-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; POWDER TECHNOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; WOOD DRYING;

DRYERS (EQUIPMENT);

EID: 84902687675     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2014.884575     Document Type: Article

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