• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.98 no.4
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• pp.426-434
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• 2009

This study was carried out to derive the most optimal production process for the wood fuels(chip and pellet), by collecting cost data on each procedure through the life cycle assessment approach, and to compare between the profitability and efficiency, from the view points of producers and consumers, irrespectively. The costs accounted in this analysis were based on the opportunity cost. The results show that wood chips are cheaper than wood pellets in production costs. In respect to the process with the lowest production cost, while wood chips should be to crush collected residues into pieces on the spot for merchandizing, wood pellets need to be transported to manufactory for pelletizing. The study findings also include that the profits, which is estimated by subtracting expenses from gained sale revenue, were a bit higher for wood chips than wood pellets. Additionally, the price ratio of wood pellets to wood chips for getting the same caloric value appears to be 1.27. Despite of economic benefits of processing wood chips, there are several problems in practice. For producers, there is a possible increase in not only transportation cost for conveying crushers to the dispersed places, but storage cost due to the lack of the marketplaces in the immediate surroundings. For consumers, on the other hand, there are some challenging issues, such as bulky storage facility requirement, additional labor for fuel supplement, frequent ashes disposal, and decomposition in summer and freezing in winter caused by wood chips' own moisture.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.247-253
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• 2018

To replace the imported biomass and to effectively cope with growing RPS(Renewable Portfolio Standard) in power sector, the domestic forest biomass resources for wood pellets were estimated from the preceding research and annual growth rate of forest trees in this study. Assuming that 20% of the by-product from forest trees processing were used as raw material for wood pellet and the wood pellet production capacity was based on the average value derived from the above two methods, unused by-product and residues generated 1.99million tons in 2016, 2.28million tons in 2020 and 3.08million tons in 2030. If 20% of by-products(pebbles, sawdust, etc.) from roundwood processing were used as raw material for wood pellets, the wood pellet could be produced 2.74million tons/year in 2016, 2.95million tons/year in 2020, 3.98million tons/year in 2030. Therefore, total amounts of wood pellet would be increased to 2.74million tons/year in 2016, 3.14million tons/year in 2020, 4.23million tons/year in 2030 when it considered unused by-product and residues from wood processing as raw materials.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.7-14
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• 2019

While wood pellets are often used as a fuel in thermoelectric power plants and firewood boilers, there is a risk of ignition temperature when strong wood pellets, which have a high calorific value, for prolonged periods of time. In this research study, the minimum auto ignition temperature and the ignition limitation temperature according to the change in flow rate depending on the size of the test vessel were calculated, and based on these temperatures, the apparent activation energy was calculated to predict the combustive properties of the material. The apparent activation energy was calculated to be 190.224 kJ/mol. The thicker the sample is storage in the vessel, the longer the ignition induction time was due to the increased difficulty in heat being transferred from the surface of the vessel to the middle section area of the vessel. For vessel of the same size, the higher the flow rate, the lower the auto ignition temperature was. It was also confirmed that increases in the size of the test vessel lowered the auto ignition temperature and increased the ignition induction time.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.246.2-246.2
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• 2010

본 연구는 저탄소 녹색성장의 국가 정책에 맞추어 주류 제조과정에서 발생하는 생전분발효 부산물인 주박(酒粕, 술지게미)을 펠릿화(pellet) 하는 것이 목적이다. 주류 제조과정에서 발생하는 주박을 100g당 물 100ml 비율로 섞어 충분히 반죽 후 녹즙기로 압축 성형화 하는 과정을 대신 하여 주박을 뽑았다. 이 주박을 온열 건조기에서 20시간이상 건조 시키면 완성이 된다. 주박펠릿은 폐기물을 재활용한 것이기 때문에 열량-가격대비를 비교해 보았을 때 등유 8950kcal-1000원/L, 경유 9050kcal-1433원/L, 면세경유 9050kcal-821/L, 우드 1812kcal-400원/kg, 주박 1989kcal-200원/kg으로 훨씬 저렴하며 열량도 높다. 주류업체에서 주박을 폐기물 처리하므로 가격 책정은 어렵다. $CO_2$ 발생량도 적어 온실가스를 절감시킬 수 있는 친환경적인 청정연료이다. 또한 연료로서 운송, 저장 및 보관이 편리하다. 주류업체도 주박 처리로 인해 연간 12억 정도 사용된다. 폐기물을 에너지화 함으로써 타 신재생에너지에 비해 초기 투자 비용이나 연료비가 저렴하다. 그리고 태우고 남은 회분은 토양개량제로 다시 재활용 되기 때문에 무해백익하다. 현재 폐목재를 사용한 우드펠릿은 원료를 수입해야 한다는 점과 삼림자원의 부족시 문제가 발생할 수 있다. 그리고 폐목재를 분쇄한 후 가공 및 성형을 해야 하기 때문에 주박이 효율성이 좋다. 현재 세계에서 가장 많이 사용되고 있는 석유나 화석연료의 매장량이 고갈 되어가고 있다. 하지만 주박은 술이 사라지지 않는 한 계속적으로 발생하기 때문에 무궁무진하게 사용이 가능하다. 또한 주류 제조시 발생하는 주박은 바로 성형 및 가공이 용이하다. 현재 주박으로 만든 펠릿은 전 세계적으로 전무하다. 막걸리 및 전통술의 특화사업으로 주박량은 더욱 증가하고 있다. 더욱이 2012년부터 해양 투기 금지로 주박 폐기물 처리가 힘들어진다. 주박 폐기물을 펠릿화해서 에너지원으로 사용하면 해결이 된다. 주박의 에너화를 통해 재생산의 열원으로 사용되고 펠릿을 연료원과 더불어 기계적인 시스템을 개발한다면 저탄소 녹색성장인 국가 정책과 부합된 미래형 에너지가 될 것이다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.39 no.8
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• pp.683-691
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• 2015

Circulating Fluidized Bed(CFB) combustion has the several advantages which are the fuel flexibility, the economy, the efficiency and the environment. It is necessary to apply a renewable energy to produce electricity due to the Renewable Portfolio Standard(RPS) mandates recently. So, in this study, co-combustion with a coal and a wood pellet was investigated to evaluate the combustibility and the environment as function of blending ratio of them in a Lab-scale CFB reactor. To investigate the characteristics of the co-combustion, the blending ratio which is the weight of wood pellet by the total calorific value of the supplied, was considered. Bed material was a river sand(No. 7). As increasing the blending ratio, the exhausted gas emissions such as CO, NOx, HC and SOx were decreased. But in case of wood pellet over 30%, CO, HC and SOx emission were increased. And the gas temperatures at the downstream were decreased.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.590-596
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• 2019

Uses of fossil fuels like coal and oil increases with industrial development, and problems like abnormal climate come up as greenhouse gas increases. Accordingly, studies are actively conducted on eco-friendly renewable energy as a replacement for the main resources, and especially, wood pellets with high thermal efficiency are in the limelight as an alternative fuel in thermal power stations and gas boilers. However, despite a constant increase in their usage, few studies are conducted on their risks like fire and spontaneous combustion. Thus, this study found the auto-ignition temperature and critical ignition temperature of wood pellets with a change in flow rate in a thermostatic bath, using a sample vessel with 20 cm in length, 20 cm in height and 14 cm in thickness to predict their ignition characteristics. Consequently, at the flow rate of 0 NL/min, as the core temperature of the sample increased to higher than the ambient temperature, they ignited at $153^{\circ}C$, when the critical ignition temperature was $152.5^{\circ}C$. At the flow rates of 0.5 NL/min and 1.0 NL/min, it was $149.5^{\circ}C$, and at the flow rate of 1.5 NL/min, it was $147.5^{\circ}C$. Consequently, at the same storage, the more the flow rate, the lower the critical ignition temperature became.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.45-46
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• 2014

• Plant Journal
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.35-41
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• 2019

In this study, we investigated the effect of the generation of NOx and CO by adjusting the overfire air supply position and ratio using the boiler that was converted from coal burning to wood pellet boiler. When the amount of the overfire air is relatively increased, the amount of NOx is slightly decreased but CO is sharply decreased when burning at low excess air ratio (1.10) that is due to a small fuel particle size. However, NOx slightly increased when burning at high excess air ratio (1.33) due to the large fuel size, but CO was hardly affected. Also, When the amount of overfire air was same, The more supply position was concentrated to upper portion of the main combustor, the more NOx and CO was lowered. And in case of the excess air ratio was high, the generation of NOx and CO I can see that it keeps the level irrelevant to the amount of air for the second stage combustion.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.55 no.5
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• pp.623-628
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• 2017

Using wood pellets, which are used as fuel for thermal power generation plants, as test specimens, the minimum spontaneous ignition temperatures according to the size of the container for the test specimens were measured, and by applying the Frank-Kamenetskii theories on thermal energy to these temperatures, the danger factor of the materials were calculated by deriving the apparent activation energies. The results confirmed that the ignition threshold temperature decreased as the size of the container increased and that the spontaneous ignition energy was 37.83 kcal/mol. The results also confirmed that the larger the container for the test specimens was the time to arrive at the spontaneous ignition time and maximum temperature also increased.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.818-826
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• 2017

In accordance with the New and Renewable Energy Supply Statistics, biomass power generation has surged since 2013, and use of wood pellet has the most sharply increased, 696Gwh in 2013, 2,764Gwh in 2014 and 2,512Gwh in 2015. Total domestic wood pellet consumption was 1.48million tons in 2015, of which wood pellets consumed for power generation account for about 1.08million tons, about 73%. In this study, we gained the result that the wood pellet would be consumed 2.61million tons in 2020, 6.85million tons in 2025, 11.39million tons in 2030. We also calculated the optimum biomass power generation, on the premise that the power plant co-fire 50% biomass, and the result was that 2.26million tons of wood pellets should be produced domestically in 2021 to operate the present licensed wood pellet power plant from this study.