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EARLY BARK [3 records]

Record 1 2007-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Burners and Steamfitting
  • Biomass Energy
DEF

A type of biomass combustion burner in which a pile of fuel burns on the grates.

OBS

Primary combustion air comes from above the grates, not below.

CONT

The boilers are fed wood fuel from the main fuel bin located adjacent to the boiler house. The boilers are the "pile burner" type, which burn wood in a large pile on the floor of a refractory lined furnace box. Combustion efficiency with this type of boiler is generally low but pile burners are simple and therefore relatively inexpensive. Low combustion efficiency also means that emissions such as particulates and carbon monoxide are relatively high. One notable advantage to these systems is that high moisture content fuels can be burned as well as "dirty" fuels containing debris.

CONT

Pile burner : Boilers incorporating a pile burning design find applications where the anticipated wood fuel has a high(up to 65%) relative moisture content, as is found in whole green tree chips, bark, and green mill residue. Grates serve to support the fuel, and underfire air flowing up through the grates provides oxygen for combustion, cools the grates, promotes turbulence in the fuel bed, and dries the fuel. The most common form of pile burning is the Dutch oven, which was used almost exclusively during the early part of the century(Guinn and Turner 1990).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fumisterie et brûleurs
  • Énergie de la biomasse
CONT

Le combustible de bois sec est mélangé à de la sciure de bois vert afin de produire un mélange de combustible qui convienne aux brûleurs de biomasse [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 1999-09-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Xylology (The Study of Wood)
CONT

Bark : A non-technical term covering all the tissues outside the xylem cylinder. NOTE : In older trees, generally divisible into inner bark and outer bark and, in any growing season, into early bark(consisting typically of sieve tubes with companion cells or sieve cells... and late bark(consisting typically of parenchyma and a few, small sieve tubes or sieve cells...).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Xylologie (Étude des bois)
CONT

Couche d'accroissement. Couche de bois ou de liber produite apparemment pendant une période de végétation; fréquemment divisible en bois initial ou liber initial et en bois final ou liber final, notamment dans les bois des régions tempérées.

Spanish

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Record 3 1998-10-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Xylology (The Study of Wood)
CONT

Bark : A non-technical term covering all the tissues outside the xylem cylinder. NOTE : In older trees, generally divisible into inner bark and outer bark and, in any growing season, into early bark(consisting typically of sieve tubes with companion cells or sieve cells... and late bark(consisting typically of parenchyma and a few, small sieve tubes or sieve cells...).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Xylologie (Étude des bois)

Spanish

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