Granular Materials & Biomass

Machine Learning Assisted Cross-Scale Hopper Design for Flowing Biomass Granular Materials
The promise of biomass-derived biofuels is often overshadowed by intricate material handling challenges such as hopper clogging and …
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Data-driven mechanical behavior modeling of granular biomass materials
Significant equipment downtime, mainly caused by the variable attributes and complex mechanical behavior of granular biomass materials, …
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Shear rate dependency on flowing granular biomass material
The commercialization of bioenergy has been significantly limited by various material handling issues due to the poor flowability of …
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SPH Modeling of Biomass Granular Flow: Engineering Application in Hoppers and Augers
Numerical modeling of granular biomass material flow in handling operations is indispensable to decipher flow upsets, commonly …
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SPH modeling of biomass granular flow: Theoretical implementation and experimental validation
The commercialization of biomass-derived energy is impeded by flowability challenges arising from the feeding and handling of granular …
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Wedge-Shaped Hopper Design for Milled Woody Biomass Flow
The bioenergy industry has been challenged by unstable flow and transport of milled biomass in material handling operations. Handling …
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Characterization of particle size and moisture content effects on mechanical and feeding behavior of milled corn (Zea mays L.) stover
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Multiscale Shear Properties and Flow Performance of Milled Woody Biomass
One dominant challenge facing the development of biorefineries is achieving consistent system throughput with highly variant biomass …
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On the Fidelity of Computational Models for the Flow of Milled Loblolly Pine: A Benchmark Study on Continuum-Mechanics Models and Discrete-Particle Models
The upstream of bioenergy industry has suffered from unreliable operations of granular biomass feedstocks in handling equipment. …
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Flow and Arching of Biomass Particles in Wedge-Shaped Hoppers
Poor understanding of the flow behavior of granular biomass material poses great challenges for the bioenergy industry, as the …
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