• DocumentCode
    2884238
  • Title

    A novel measurement method for quality parameters of wood pellets

  • Author

    Brunnader, Rudolf ; Holler, Gert

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Electr. Meas. & Meas. Signal Process., Graz Univ. of Technol., Graz, Austria
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    7-10 Nov. 2011
  • Firstpage
    4643
  • Lastpage
    4647
  • Abstract
    The assessment of the moisture content of solid biological fuel is essential for quality control of the combustibles. Common moisture content measurement methods are time consuming and/or can be applied only after sample extraction. The paper presents a novel measurement method for measuring the gross density of solids and the moisture content for materials with known dry material density. Practical measurements are performed using wood pellets at different moisture levels demonstrating the capability of the method for density and moisture measurements.
  • Keywords
    biofuel; moisture measurement; quality control; wood; combustibles; dry material density; measurement method; moisture content; quality control; quality parameters; solid biological fuel; wood pellets; Acoustic measurements; Containers; Density measurement; Frequency measurement; Materials; Moisture; Moisture measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    IECON 2011 - 37th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
  • Conference_Location
    Melbourne, VIC
  • ISSN
    1553-572X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-969-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IECON.2011.6120076
  • Filename
    6120076