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Fuel Briquettes from Southern Pine Sawdust


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dc.contributor.authorBasore, Cleburne Ammenen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-01T02:30:16Zen_US
dc.date.available2017-07-01T02:30:16Zen_US
dc.date.issued1929en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11200/48850
dc.description"May 1930." Also issued as author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1929. Includes bibliographical references (p. 29-30).en_US
dc.description.abstractThe object of this investigation was to find a method for the profitable disposal of the large amounts of wood wastes from the saw mills of our Southern States. As a result of this investigation, a process has been developed for the manufacture of a high grade fuel briquette involving the following steps: 1. The wood waste in the form of sawdust, is preheated to destroy the elasticity of the wood. This preheating also eliminates moisture and considerable combined oxygen and hydrogen from the wood with the result that the weight is decreased about one-third and the heating value per pound almost doubled. 2. The preheated sawdust is then moistened and briquetted hot without addition of a binder. The resulting briquettes are firm and strong enough to stand rough handling and they resist weathering to an extent which should permit shipment and storage if protected from rainfall. 3. The optimum conditions of carrying out the various steps in the process have been determined and a study made of costs of plant and operation for a 20 ton per day plant.en_US
dc.publisherAuburn, Ala. : Engineering Experiment Station of the Alabama Polytechnic Instituteen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBulletin (Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Engineering Experiment Station) ; no. 1en_US
dc.subjectBriquets (Fuel)en_US
dc.subjectFuelwooden_US
dc.subjectWood waste as fuelen_US
dc.titleFuel Briquettes from Southern Pine Sawdusten_US

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