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Forest chip cleaning; Metsaehakkeen puhdistus

Abstract

The coal of the project was to develop cleaning method for whole-tree chips made of birch and pine. The wood loss should be as small as possible and the bark content less than 2 %. The new cleaning system has been planned on the basis of experiments, supplemented with earlier knowledge. The cleaning system consists of grinding of the whole-tree chips followed by multi-stage segregation process for clean chips and bark fractions. A lot of wood containing bark fraction is recycled to the grinding to decrease wood loss. Experiments have been made partly in laboratory scale and partly in pilot-scale. The result has been calculated on the basis of the separate experiments. The bark content of cleaned chips is 0.5-1 %. The wood loss in the birch whole-tree chips over 7 mm fraction is 20 % and in pine whole-tree fraction 12 %. The wood contains also branchwood. The yield of wood can be as high as 150 % compared to merchantable stemwood. The costs of the wood-chip cleaning have been estimated to be about 12 FIM/m{sup 3} (solid). As a whole it has been estimated, that the cost of pulp chips from small-sized trees harvested by chip cleaning method  More>>
Authors:
Seppaenen, V [1] 
  1. Technical Research Centre of Finland, Jyvaeskylae (Finland). Combustion and Thermal Engineering Laboratory
Publication Date:
Nov 01, 1991
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
VTT-TIED-1306
Reference Number:
SCA: 090900; 320303; PA: FI-92:003022; SN: 92000719998
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Nov 1991
Subject:
09 BIOMASS FUELS; 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; WOOD WASTES; PURIFICATION; BIRCHES; PINES; COST; BARK; SEGREGATION; 090900; 320303; PROCESSING; EQUIPMENT AND PROCESSES
OSTI ID:
10141501
Research Organizations:
Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo (Finland)
Country of Origin:
Finland
Language:
Finnish
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE92506496; ISBN 951-38-4039-5; TRN: FI9203022
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS (US Sales Only)
Submitting Site:
FI
Size:
57 p.
Announcement Date:
Jul 05, 2005

Citation Formats

Seppaenen, V. Forest chip cleaning; Metsaehakkeen puhdistus. Finland: N. p., 1991. Web.
Seppaenen, V. Forest chip cleaning; Metsaehakkeen puhdistus. Finland.
Seppaenen, V. 1991. "Forest chip cleaning; Metsaehakkeen puhdistus." Finland.
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title = {Forest chip cleaning; Metsaehakkeen puhdistus}
author = {Seppaenen, V}
abstractNote = {The coal of the project was to develop cleaning method for whole-tree chips made of birch and pine. The wood loss should be as small as possible and the bark content less than 2 %. The new cleaning system has been planned on the basis of experiments, supplemented with earlier knowledge. The cleaning system consists of grinding of the whole-tree chips followed by multi-stage segregation process for clean chips and bark fractions. A lot of wood containing bark fraction is recycled to the grinding to decrease wood loss. Experiments have been made partly in laboratory scale and partly in pilot-scale. The result has been calculated on the basis of the separate experiments. The bark content of cleaned chips is 0.5-1 %. The wood loss in the birch whole-tree chips over 7 mm fraction is 20 % and in pine whole-tree fraction 12 %. The wood contains also branchwood. The yield of wood can be as high as 150 % compared to merchantable stemwood. The costs of the wood-chip cleaning have been estimated to be about 12 FIM/m{sup 3} (solid). As a whole it has been estimated, that the cost of pulp chips from small-sized trees harvested by chip cleaning method are 80 FIM/m3 lower than by traditional cord wood method. Additional studies on the economy, the wood loss and bark content of the method are required before full-scale plant. The method is suitable for all wood chip cleaning purposes.}
place = {Finland}
year = {1991}
month = {Nov}
}