Open AccessComparing energy demand of densified briquettes of ground and unground hazelnut husks under compression loading
Author(s) -
Çimen Demirel,
Gürkan Alp Kağan Gürdil,
Abraham Kabutey,
M. Wasserbauer
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/260/1/012028
Subject(s) - briquette , husk , compaction , materials science , biomass (ecology) , compression (physics) , composite material , waste management , engineering , geology , botany , coal , biology , oceanography
The study compared the energy consumption (J) of briquettes produced from the ground and unground hazelnut husks using a universal compacting machine and a pressing chamber of 60 mm diameter with a plunger. Other parameters evaluated were deformation (mm), thickness (mm) and hardness (kN/mm). The analysis of variance results proved that the applied force, material type and interaction had a significant effect ( P F- critical) on energy requirement of briquettes compaction from the ground and unground hazelnut husks. Ground hazelnut husks briquettes consumed more energy compared to unground hazelnut husks briquettes. The study is still ongoing where the varying effects of moisture content and particles size on energy demand and other biomass densification properties are under consideration. Therefore, the results presented here are preliminary.