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Compacting Biomass and Municipal Solid Wastes to Form an Upgraded Fuel. Final Technical Report, December 1, 1998-May 31, 2000.

DE2005837464

Publication Date	2000
Personal Author	Liu, H.; Li, Y.
Page Count	160
Abstract	Biomass waste materials exist in large quantity in every city and in numerous industrial plants such as wood processing plants and waste paper collection centers. Through minimum processing, such waste materials can be turned into a solid fuel for combustion at existing coal-fired power plants. Use of such biomass fuel reduces the amount of coal used, and hence reduces the greenhouse effect and global warming, while at the same time it reduces the use of land for landfill and the associated problems. The carbon-dioxide resulting from burning biomass fuel is recycled through plant growth and hence does not contribute to global warming. Biomass fuel also contains little sulfur and hence does not contribute to acid rain problems. Notwithstanding the environmental desirability of using biomass waste materials, not much of them are used currently due to the need to densify the waste materials and the high cost of conventional methods of densification such as pelletizing and briquetting. The purpose of this project was to test a unique new method of biomass densification developed from recent research in coal log pipeline (CLP).
Keywords	Biomass Municipal wastes Fuels Waste product utilization Carbon dioxide Acid rain Biofuels Solid wastes Compacting Waste processing Economic analysis Particle size Greenhouse gases Caol-fired power plants Industrial plants Sanitary landfills Air pollution control
Source Agency	Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
Corporate Authors	Missouri Univ.-Columbia. Capsule Pipeline Research Center.; Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200524

Compacting Biomass and Municipal Solid Wastes to Form an Upgraded Fuel. Final Technical Report, December 1, 1998-May 31, 2000.

Compacting Biomass and Municipal Solid Wastes to Form an Upgraded Fuel. Final Technical Report, December 1, 1998-May 31, 2000.
DE2005837464

Publication Date	2000
Personal Author	Liu, H.; Li, Y.
Page Count	160
Abstract	Biomass waste materials exist in large quantity in every city and in numerous industrial plants such as wood processing plants and waste paper collection centers. Through minimum processing, such waste materials can be turned into a solid fuel for combustion at existing coal-fired power plants. Use of such biomass fuel reduces the amount of coal used, and hence reduces the greenhouse effect and global warming, while at the same time it reduces the use of land for landfill and the associated problems. The carbon-dioxide resulting from burning biomass fuel is recycled through plant growth and hence does not contribute to global warming. Biomass fuel also contains little sulfur and hence does not contribute to acid rain problems. Notwithstanding the environmental desirability of using biomass waste materials, not much of them are used currently due to the need to densify the waste materials and the high cost of conventional methods of densification such as pelletizing and briquetting. The purpose of this project was to test a unique new method of biomass densification developed from recent research in coal log pipeline (CLP).
Keywords	Biomass Municipal wastes Fuels Waste product utilization Carbon dioxide Acid rain Biofuels Solid wastes Compacting Waste processing Economic analysis Particle size Greenhouse gases Caol-fired power plants Industrial plants Sanitary landfills Air pollution control
Source Agency	Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
Corporate Authors	Missouri Univ.-Columbia. Capsule Pipeline Research Center.; Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200524