title: Influence of the feed moisture, rotor speed, and blades gap on the performances of a biomass pulverization technology.
abstract: Recently, a novel biomass pulverization technology was proposed by our group. In this paper, further detailed studies of this technology were carried out. The effects of feed moisture and crusher operational parameters (rotor speed and blades gap) on product particle size distribution and energy consumption were investigated. The results showed that higher rotor speed and smaller blades gap could improve the hit probability between blades and materials and enhance the impacting and grinding effects to generate finer products, however, resulting in the increase of energy consumption. Under dry conditions finer particles were much more easily achieved, and there was a tendency for the specific energy to increase with increasing feed moisture. Therefore, it is necessary for the raw biomass material to be dried before pulverization.
authors.affiliation: School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Qingdao Technological University, Qingdao 266033, China.
authors.forename: Siyi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Qingdao Technological University, Qingdao 266033, China.
authors.forename: Yangmin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Qingdao Technological University, Qingdao 266033, China.
authors.forename: Chuijie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
authors.forename: Yin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: Environmental Engineering Program, Department of Civil Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fu
mesh_terms: D018533:Biomass; D007221:Industry