In this study, agglomerated wooden fuel manufactured from the torrefied wood was performed physical properties, fuel properties and combustion characteristics. As the results of testing physical properties, torrefied specimens of all species showed th...
In this study, agglomerated wooden fuel manufactured from the torrefied wood was performed physical properties, fuel properties and combustion characteristics. As the results of testing physical properties, torrefied specimens of all species showed that they had superior dimensional stability. Two weeks after manufacturing torrefied specimens, it showed that they reached a range of moisture content in air dried condition based on the Korean standard. In particular, torrefied group showed lower moisture content than the untreated group at the same air-dried process conditions. Since hydroxyl groups which were contained in the timber during processing of the torrefaction treatment of feedstock was significantly lost, moisture absorbing capacity was decreased. Moreover, density of torrefied groups in the course of the same drying process was found to be higher than the untreated group. This was because it expected to have a closely related moisture absorption function of torrefied feedstock. As the result of testing fuel properties, it indicated that all torrefied specimens had higher heating value than ignition coals because of contains barium nitrate which was heavy metal. As the results of proximate analysis, average of ash content’s weight was lower than 90% compared with the conventional agglomerated wood charcoal, Moreover because total heat release became larger due to high contents of volatile matter, flaming combustion was promoted. However, carbon content which was major factor of burning process was lower than the conventional agglomerated wood charcoal.
As the result of combustion properties, carbon monoxide's emission quantities of torrefied specimens indicated about 90% lower than the conventional ignition coals. Because the torrefied specimens promoted normal combustion which was different from conventional agglomerated wood charcoal, the emission of carbon monoxide appeared markedly lower than the conventional one. Also, according to this experiment, it confirmed that pine had especially good performance among three species. As a result, agglomerated wood fuel which was made of torrefied wood particles showed outstanding fuel efficiency and reduction effects of harmful gas.