Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF YOUNG SCIENTISTS ON ENERGY AND NATURAL SCIENCES ISSUES, Kaunas, Litvanya, 24 - 28 Mayıs 2021, ss.99-109, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
Fossil fuels such as
petroleum and coal is still the most used resource of energy in the world.
While the need of energy is increasing, it becomes an important issue to supply
it from sustainable and renewable sources such as forest, industrial, and
agricultural waste. Increasing consumption of fossil fuels are not only a
problem but also an important problem of global warming as well as
environmental pollution. Biomass energy becomes an alternative energy to meet
the increasing energy demand and to reduce global warming effect. Biomass can
be obtained from various raw materials such as forest residues, wood, agricultural
waste, annual plants, and chemically untreated wood industry residues. On the
other hand, pellets or briquettes manufacturing have many advantages such as
increasing density and burning efficiency of the waste and reducing transport
cost. It decreases also carbon footprint along with supporting circular economy.
This study aims to
determine the quality of wood and non-wood pellets according to EN ISO 17225-2
and EN ISO 17225-6 standards and the obtained pellets were characterized by
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR-ATR). The elemental composition
of the wood pellet and non-woody pellet samples were determined using Inductively
Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). The pellet samples were obtained
from various pellet factories in Turkey, and the pellet samples were analyzed
to determine some chemical and mechanical properties.
It is clear that
woody pellets even in different types of wood species and ratios ensure the
standard requirements. But, FB and T1 do not meet the standard requirements in
some aspects.