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Wood waste as a fuel for timber drying

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Title Wood waste as a fuel for timber drying
 
Creator Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Description In developing countries considerable quantities of sawdust and other particulate residues are generated by local industries. These residues, a potential source of energy, are often discarded as a waste product.



Engineers at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) have designed a simple and robust system that utilizes waste sawdust to provide process heat for industrial applications. The design and development of this cyclonic suspension burner was successfully field tested under commercial operating conditions to fuel a timber drying kiln in Belize, and is described in a report just published. The technology has the added advantage of saving energy costs, conserving finite energy sources and avoiding the discharge of obnoxious black smoke.



A multi-chamber furnace for burning groundnut shells and rice husks has also been developed. Details of its design and operation will be the subject of a separate report to be published later.



NRI, Central Avenue



Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK
In developing countries considerable quantities of sawdust and other particulate residues are generated by local industries. These residues, a potential source of energy, are often discarded as a waste product. Engineers at the Natural Resources...
 
Date 1991
2014-10-08T13:41:07Z
2014-10-08T13:41:07Z
 
Type News Item
 
Identifier CTA. 1991. Wood waste as a fuel for timber drying. Spore 35. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/45601
http://collections.infocollections.org/ukedu/en/d/Jcta35e/
 
Language en
 
Relation Spore
 
Rights Open Access
 
Publisher Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Source Spore