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Property analysis and pretreatment of rice straw for energy use in grain
drying: A review
Foday Robert Kargbo, Junjun Xing, Yanlin Zhang
College of Engineering and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
ABSTRACT
Utilization of rice straw for energy use in grain drying has attracted considerable interest in many
rice producing countries. However, performance of rice straw as fuel in grain drying is uncertain
without information on the fundamental properties of the raw material. Rice straw has low quality
feedstock primarily determined by a high ash content (10- 17%) as compared to wheat straw
(around 3%) and high silica content in ash in rice (SO2 is 75%) and in wheat 55%. On the contrary
rice straw feedstock has relatively low total alkali content (Na2O and K2O comprise < 15% of total
ash) whereas wheat straws have < 25 alkali content in ash. Based on its slagging index, Rs 0.04,
fouling index, RF 0.24. Rice straw is not expected to have significant operating problems or
different emission compared with wheat straw and Rice husk under similar operating condition.
The purpose of this paper is to reveal some of those properties from literature and how they could
be improved by pretreatment technologies. The two fundamental properties analyzed in this paper
are calorific (heating) and density values, the pretreatment Technologies are sizing and
compression. The literature reveals that both physical and chemical properties of rice straw are
improved significantly by the pretreatment technologies.
Keywords: Rice straw, Heating Value, Bulk Density, Pretreatment, Grain drying, Sizing,
Compression.
INTRODUCTION
energy source.
storage.
Determination
of
these
physical and
chemical
fundamental
pretreatment
drying.
properties
and
Form
Bulk density
3
Loose
Chooped
40-80
Bales
110-200
Moduled
96-128
Hammer milled
40-100
Cubed
320-640
Pelleted
560-720
20-40
Pretreatment Technologies:
condition.
Biomass
High heating
value MJ/Kg
Rice Straw
15.3
pollution.
Rice husk
17.5
Ha
Wheat straw
Wood
17.1
17.8
19.0
rice straw.
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dried in the air for two weeks, the dried rice straws with
and
enlarges
the
product
volume,
making
it
biomass.
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Fig. 2. (a) cut rice straw with the size of 105 mm, (b) cut rice straw with the size of 52 mm, (c)cut rice Straw
with the size 2 mm.
Source: shii chou,et al,(2009)
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production.
paper.
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