- Title
- On the challenges facing the handling of solid biomass feedstocks
- Creator
- Ilic, Dusan; Williams, Kenneth; Farnish, Richard; Webb, Erin; Liu, Gary
- Relation
- Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining Vol. 12, Issue 2, p. 187-202
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bbb.1851
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- With a major global emphasis on the management of waste, alternative resources and a shift to environmentally sustainable technologies, demand for large volumes of heterogeneous solid biomass feedstocks for energy or chemical use is expected to rise significantly. In transforming a sporadic supply of a low‐value, highly variable product, to continuous and controlled high throughput systems, a thorough understanding of the feedstock properties will increase in importance. Appropriate characterisation tests are necessary to define technical specification and selection criteria for handling equipment and to appraise the requirement and location for additional processes or pre‐treatment to be integrated into the handling chain. Such tests may also influence the material characteristics to be used in the conversion process. This paper discusses the main feedstock attributes associated with a number of handling chain phases and the approach to obtain them. The framework for a holistic approach to the characterisation and design of biomass feedstock handling systems for further development and practical implementation is also proposed.
- Subject
- biomass; dilation; handling; advanced adaptive system; modelling; characterisation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1393606
- Identifier
- uon:33571
- Identifier
- ISSN:1932-1031
- Rights
- This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Ilic, D., Williams, K., Farnish, R., Webb, E. and Liu, G. (2018), On the challenges facing the handling of solid biomass feedstocks. Biofuels, Bioprod. Bioref., 12: 187-202, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.1851. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
- Language
- eng
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