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Pelletizing of spinach and honewort plant parts, and analysis of their pellet inorganic components and combustion ash
Author(s) -
Ikeura Hiromi,
Sato Kanami
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
environmental progress and sustainable energy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.495
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1944-7450
pISSN - 1944-7442
DOI - 10.1002/ep.12048
Subject(s) - pellets , spinach , pellet , pelletizing , combustion , chemistry , fertilizer , waste management , pulp and paper industry , environmental science , agronomy , materials science , biology , composite material , engineering , biochemistry , organic chemistry
Recently, plant factory is becoming widespread and drumming up in Japan. Agricultural residues have generated from there, are disposed of as waste after harvesting. We aimed to demonstrate the effectiveness of honewort leaves, stems and roots, and spinach roots as a pellet material, and investigated combustion tests in order to pelletize honewort leaves, stems and roots and spinach roots. Moreover, inorganic component in their pellets and combustion ash of their pellets was analyzed. Honewort leaves, stems and roots, and spinach roots could be pelletized in 11% wet. Next, although honewort pellets could not be combusted continuously, spinach pellets could be combusted the same level as wood pellets. Inorganic contents in their pellets combustion ash were significantly higher than those in wood pellets. These results indicated that spinach pellets and its combustion ash can be utilized as an energy source and fertilizer. © 2014 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 34: 819–822, 2015