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The industrial wood energy handbook

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OSTI ID:5051228
This guide examines ways to convert solid wood fuel to usuable energy as heat, electricity, and steam. It covers combustion, design, performance, fuel handling, cogeneration, feasibility, wood gasification, fuel production, and storage. A textile products plant case history is used to illustrate money-saving benefits of industrial wood energy systems. Topics include: wood fuel combustion theory; wood combustion equipment for steam and process heat; wood fuel storage and handling; cogeneration; wood -fired boiler emissions and control; environment and safety (rules, regulations, and safe practice); feasibility study methodology; wood fuel supply and purchasing; economic analysis for wood combustion systems; wood fuel processing routes and economics; wood fuel processing network; and case history-Integrated Products, Inc.
OSTI ID:
5051228
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English