Assessment on bulk solids best practice techniques for flow characterization and storage/handling equipment design for biomass materials of different classes

Fuel Processing Technology

Volumn 138, Issue , 2015, Pages 540-554

  Barletta, Diego ^a   Berry, Robert J ^b   Larsson, Sylvia H ^c   Lestander, Torbjörn Albert ^c   Poletto, Massimo ^a   Ramírez Gómez, Álvaro ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arching; Explosion; Flowability; Lignocellulosic biomass; Particle shape; Particle size

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BUILDING MATERIALS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; EXPLOSION TESTING; EXPLOSIONS; FORESTRY; FRICTION; HOPPERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SHEAR FLOW; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRIBOLOGY; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); WOOD; WOOD PRODUCTS;

ARCHING; CHARACTERIZATION PROCEDURES; FLOWABILITY; LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS; PARTICLE SHAPE; PARTICLE SIZE AND SHAPE; UNCONFINED YIELD STRENGTH; WALL FRICTION MEASUREMENTS;

CHARACTERIZATION;

EID: 84952869755     PISSN: 03783820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuproc.2015.06.034     Document Type: Article

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