Summary of Biomass Scale Cubical Triaxial Tester Results
- Forest Concepts, LLC; Forest Concepts, LLC
- Forest Concepts, LLC
- The Pennsylvania State University
Hoppers are widely used biomass handling devices that channel bulk biomass from storage to subsequent handling equipment. Jenike’s longstanding approach, based on the Mohr-Coulomb model, has been successfully used to design hoppers handling cohesionless granular materials such as grains and other agricultural produces. However, designing a hopper to ensure reliable non-grain biomass flow is found to be challenging due to cohesion, irregular particle shape, and bulk material elastoplasticity. Forest Concepts developed a Cubical Triaxial Tester (CTT) to collect data necessary to determine constitutive model coefficients appropriate for particulate biomass materials. Over the course of three years, including hundreds of data sets with a focus on low-pressure ranges relevant to gravity hopper flow of biomass feedstocks, the Forest Concepts’ CTT has proven to be a reliable method to generate data that is otherwise difficult to obtain. Coefficients for three widely used constitutive material models, i.e., Mohr-Coulomb model, modified Cam-Clay model, and Drucker-Prager/Cap model, are reported. This work was supported in part by the US Department of Energy under contract DE-EE0008254.
- Research Organization:
- Forest Concepts, LLC, Auburn, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Office of Sustainable Transportation. Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO)
- Contributing Organization:
- Penn State University
- DOE Contract Number:
- EE0008254
- OSTI ID:
- 2001312
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-FC-08254-10
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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