TORREFACTION

Autothermal operation
Sun dry
TEMPERATURE OF FEED?
SIZE OF THE FEED?<25 mm
BATCH CONTINOUS?continous
FOR SINGLE REACTOR
RRSIDENCE TIME? WHEN THE TEMPERATURE REACHES 200 DEG CELSIUS THE
RESIDENCE TIME BEGINS AND IT IS 30 MIN. the preheated biomass at 200 deg celsiu
enters the rotary drum reactor(the wall temperature is 260 deg celsius) there it
cycles till 30 min.
Preheater ,200 deg Celsius ,,enters at 100 degre Celsius
Slow cooling to avoid combustion of the product thereby decreasing c content
How to cool? Slowly cooled in a closed conveyor until 200 deg celsius
The diagram shown in figure 1 shows a process in a single torrefaction reactor.The
pre-dried corn Stover with average size of 25 mm immediately enters the
torrefaction reactor. The reactor operates continuously and consists of two parts,
one is in preheating and the other part is devoted on the main process which is the
torrefaction. In the preheating part the stover is heated up to 200 degree Celsius
,this will serves as a pre-process ready for the torrefaction.When the temperature
reaches 200 deg Celsius ,the biomass will then now proceed to the rotary drum
where at a residence time of 30 min the biomass is cooked .
The exhaust gases in the torrefaction reactor goes to the condenser where
condesible organic materials are like furfural and acetic acids are condensed ,the
incondensable part is blown to the burner adding to energy supplied in the fuel to
supply heat for torrefaction and drying. The burner is design to both combustible
gases and raw corns stover.
Heat exchanger?
Is it possible to use no binder?
Technicality of torrefaction

Medics data
Eyield = 10.0379 - 0.0144*Moisture + 0.9278*Temperature 0.00721*(Moisture) 2
0.002461*(Temperature)2
Mass loss = 95.68 1.0396*Temperature + 0.2491*Moisture + 0.00284*(Temperature) 2