Densification of waste biomass for manufacturing solid biofuel pellets: a review

TR Sarker, S Nanda, V Meda, AK Dalai - Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2023 - Springer
The demand for bioenergy is increasing due to the diminishing popularity of fossil fuels and
rising greenhouse gas emissions. However, according to recent reports, renewable energy …

Mechanisms and mitigation of agglomeration during fluidized bed combustion of biomass: A review

JD Morris, SS Daood, S Chilton, W Nimmo - Fuel, 2018 - Elsevier
A key issue associated with fluidized bed combustion of biomass is agglomeration. The
presence of high quantities of alkali metal species in biomass ash leads to the formation of …

Complementary effects of torrefaction and pelletization for the production of fuel pellets from agricultural residues: a comparative study

TR Sarker, R Azargohar, J Stobbs… - Industrial Crops and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Torrefaction is an effective technique to produce high quality coal-like material, which can be
used as a substitute of coal in combustion or gasification processes. Combination of …

Ash fusion characteristics of biomass pellets during combustion

M Zhai, X Li, D Yang, Z Ma, P Dong - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Combustion of biomass pellets is one of the essential approaches to biomass energy
utilization. However, the ash produced from the combustion of pellets may melt and affect …

Characterization of woodstove briquettes from torrefied biomass and coal

A Trubetskaya, JJ Leahy, E Yazhenskikh, M Müller… - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Using waste biomass materials offers the potential to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions
from fossil fuels. Torrefaction is very useful for improving the fuel properties of biomass in …

Hydrothermal carbonization of olive wastes to produce renewable, binder-free pellets for use as metallurgical reducing agents

GR Surup, JJ Leahy, MT Timko, A Trubetskaya - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Torrefaction or hydrothermal carbonization processes were compared for conversion of olive
pulp into metallurgical reducing agent. The dependence of yield, CO 2 reactivity, and …

The use of kaolin and dolomite bed additives as an agglomeration mitigation method for wheat straw and miscanthus biomass fuels in a pilot-scale fluidized bed …

JD Morris, SS Daood, W Nimmo - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Renewable biomass fuels are frequently used for power generation. Biomass ash causes
bed agglomeration in fluidized bed boilers due to the formation of alkali silicate melts. Very …

Solid fraction of digestate from biogas plant as a material for pellets production

W Czekała - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
One of the anaerobic digestion process products in an agricultural biogas plant is digestate
(digested pulp). Large quantities of digestate generated in the process of biogas production …

Ash behavior of various fuels: The role of the intrinsic distribution of ash species

M Reinmöller, M Schreiner, S Guhl, M Neuroth… - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
In the present study, seven different fuels–comprising three coals (hard coal, two brown
coals), two contaminated biomasses/anthropogenic wastes (refuse-derived fuel/RDF …

Codensification technology as a critical strategy for energy recovery from biomass and other resources-A review

K Kang, L Qiu, G Sun, M Zhu, X Yang, Y Yao… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Driven by the depletion of fossil energy sources and increasing demand for CO 2 emission
mitigation, the global production of densified biofuel increased dramatically from less than 7 …