ANALYSIS OF DURABILITY AND DIMENSIONAL STABILITY OF HYDROTHERMAL CARBONIZED WOODEN PELLETS

作者：Jose Vicente Oliver Villanueva^*; Enrique Garcia Andujar; Patricia Gascon Garrido

来源：Wood Research, 2016, 61(2): 321-330.

• Wood
• hydrothermal carbonization
• pellets
• durability
• dimensional stability

Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) is a chemical pretreatment of wood waste for convert it in biochar by the application of high temperatures and pressures in a reaction time that do not exceed 10 hours. One of the main applications of the HTC biochar is as pellets. In this research durability against fungal decay and dimensional stability associated with relative humidity changes of HTC pellets were analyzed and evaluated. A comparison of these properties between HTC pellets and wooden EN+ pellets has been carried out.
HTC pellets are significantly more durable against fungal attack, more dimensionally stable against relative humidity changes and denser than wood pellets, which confers better properties for logistics processes like storage and transport.

• 出版日期2016