Pelletizing of spinach and honewort plant parts, and analysis of their pellet inorganic components and combustion ash

作者：Ikeura Hiromi^*; Sato Kanami

来源：Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy, 2015, 34(3): 819-822.

DOI：10.1002/ep.12048

• pellet
• combustion
• spinach
• honewort

Recently, plant factory is becoming widespread and drumming up in Japan. Agricultural residues have generated from there, are disposed of as waste after harvesting. We aimed to demonstrate the effectiveness of honewort leaves, stems and roots, and spinach roots as a pellet material, and investigated combustion tests in order to pelletize honewort leaves, stems and roots and spinach roots. Moreover, inorganic component in their pellets and combustion ash of their pellets was analyzed. Honewort leaves, stems and roots, and spinach roots could be pelletized in 11% wet. Next, although honewort pellets could not be combusted continuously, spinach pellets could be combusted the same level as wood pellets. Inorganic contents in their pellets combustion ash were significantly higher than those in wood pellets. These results indicated that spinach pellets and its combustion ash can be utilized as an energy source and fertilizer.

• 出版日期2015-6