Development of Direct Contact Superheated Steam Drying Process for Biomass

Download or read book Development of Direct Contact Superheated Steam Drying Process for Biomass written by Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superheated steam drying (SSD) employs steam instead of hot air to dry a product. A pilot unit was designed and operated to test the applications of superheated steam drying to the removal of moisture from biomass fuels prior to combustion. Wood chips and hog fuel were dried under continuous, plug flow conditions and the data was used to calculate energy balances, and to estimate heat transfer coefficients and drying rates for industrial scale. The economics of fuel scale dryer operation were examined.