Bulk Density of Forest Residues for Truck Transportation and Examination of Enhancing Its Packing Efficiency in Order to Apply to Woody Biomass Electric Generation

• SUZUKI Yasushi

  Faculty of Agriculture and Marine Science, Kochi University

• FUKUDA Yuji

  Green Energy Laboratory, Co., Ltd.

• YAMAOKA Yuichirou

  Green Energy Laboratory, Co., Ltd.

• INAI Yasuhide

  Green Energy Laboratory, Co., Ltd.

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 発電利用を想定した林地残材のトラック輸送における形態別容積比重と混載による充填効率向上の可能性の検討

Abstract

We tried to obtain practical data on bulk density of forest residues for truck transportation in order to apply it to woody biomass electric power generation. A case study of packing and transportation using a panel truck of 11.5 t capacity was conducted for three types of forest residues: logs, twigs, and their mixture, with two repetitions for each. Bulk density was measured from bulk volume of residues and weight of the loads. The achieved packing efficiency ranged from 0.50 to 0.95. Using the data, we estimated the loading weight with packing efficiency of 1.00 to be 15.25 t, 5.78 t, 11.46 t for logs, twigs, and the mixture, respectively. A series of numerical examination found that in order to achieve the maximum loading weight of 11.5 t, keeping packing efficiency of 1.00, mixture of logs and twigs would be the best method with the ratio of twigs to be around 0.4 to 0.5.

Journal

• Journal of the Japan Institute of Energy

  Journal of the Japan Institute of Energy 96 (10), 436-440, 2017

  The Japan Institute of Energy

Keywords

• Woody biomass electric power generation
• Transportation
• Bulk density
• Logging residue
• Packing efficiency

Details

• CRID: 1390001204357396352
• NII Article ID: 130006188599
• DOI: 10.3775/jie.96.436
• ISSN: 18826121
• ISSN: 09168753
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jie/96/10/96_436/_pdf
• Text Lang: ja
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