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Biochar was ball milled in an SFM 1 model QM 3SP2 planetary ball mill MTI Corporation Richmond CA using 500 mL capacity stainless steel milling jars and lids Milling media consisted of 3 mm diameter YSZ spheres Inframat Corporation Manchester CT at a weight ratio of 200 1 milling media biochar Samples were milled for
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planetary ball mill Bond ball mill knife mill and ring roller mill on the milling behaviour of densified biomass pellets Their results showed that for optimal milling performance Miscanthus Giganteus and switchgrass using the BioFeed a system level optimization model The obtained results showed that 4–6 mm was the optimal
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The ball milling procedure was carried out at 200 300 or 500 rpm for 0.05 to 12 h Every 30 min the milling procedure was stopped for 15 min and the rotation direction was alteredthe total time reported does not include the time for which the ball mill was stopped.
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Stirred ball mill The selected conditions from the planetary mill study were modified to carry out the mechano biocatalytic one pot process in a 2 L stirred ball mill reactor JM 2L Tianchuang Powder Tech Co Ltd Changsha China The vessel and rod impeller are
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ball milling followed by mild acid hydrolysis The first step in this procedure is a ten day long milling proce dure followed by enzymatic hydrolysis We have found that this lengthy milling process renders switchgrass highly susceptible to enzymatic saccharification Com pared to untreated spring harvested switchgrass UT 2
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Switchgrass Panicum virgatum is a herbaceous plant which is a good potential biomass for bioethanol.The paper conducted the ball mill isolating and purifying method to study the native lignin structure of four different varieties of switchgrasses with 13C NMR spectroscopic technique addition acid insoluble lignin and soluble lignin content were measured.The result showed that the
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switchgrass crops include providing habitat for wildlife 4e9 samples in a Wiley mill to pass a <1 mm screen then pulverized samples to fine powder in a ball mill before analyzing for C and N concentrations mass fraction using a Flash EA 1112 CN Automatic Elemental Analyzer Thermo Finnigan Milan Italy
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Lime ball mill whereas the maximum xylan yield was 72.0 1 1 The SAA pre 200 C/5 min LHW and SO2 pretreatments obtained maximum treatment contained only 13.6 xylan in
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An aliquot of the grinded biomass was ball milled to a fine powder using a Mixer Mill MM 400 Retsch Inc Newtown PA and stainless steel balls Metabolites were extracted from 200 mg of dried ball milled biomass using 80 v/v methanol water followed by
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An aliquot of the grinded biomass was ball milled to a fine powder using a Mixer Mill MM 400 Retsch Inc Newtown PA and stainless steel balls Metabolites were extracted from 200 mg of dried ball milled biomass using 80 v/v methanol water
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several studies showing that continuous ball milling or high shear during enzymatic hydrolysis enabled a roughly twofold increase in hydrolysis yields 14–17 More recently attrition milling of thermochemically pretreated substrates has been used as a means of reducing required enzyme loadings 1918 and long periods of ball mill
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The difference between the MCDCFC performances using switchgrass HM and BM fuels at 600 oC 700 C and 800 C are shown in Figures 6 to 8 These figures show that the hand milled switchgrass carbon fuels gave better performances than the ball milled Hand milled carbon fuel has average particle size of 30 μm while the ball milled has 2 μm.
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A Process and Energy Analysis of Pelletizing Switchgrass switchgrass usually contain between 12 20 moisture Feedstock at the Belcan plant is dried to between 10 12 before fine grinding using a rolling drum dryer fueled by natural gas Some commercial wood pellet mills use wood waste as a fuel source to reduce expenditures for natural gas Fine grinding hammer mill
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In brief the extractive free vacuum dried 40 C overnight switchgrass samples were ball milled in a porcelain jar with ceramic balls using a rotatory ball mill running at 96 rpm for 168 h under N 2 The milled fine cell wall powder was then subjected to enzyme treatment in acetic acid/ammonium acetate buffer pH 4.8 50 C under continuous
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All switchgrass feedstocks were initially cut into 2–4 cm size pieces milled using a 0.5 mm mill screen Retsch mill Haan Germany and sieved through a 0.5 mm sieve screen The material not passing the screen was re milled until all material passed with a maximum of three re milling sessions.
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Also the compositional ash corrected data of two whole samples one of giant reed and one of switchgrass stem leaf obtained by grinding the plant with a ball mill are reported in Table 2 The obtained results are consistent with those of literature that is
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Biomass from forestry and agricultural sources has recently drawn a lot of attention as a new source of feedstock for energy and bio products Size reduction is an important step in preparation of biomass as a feedstock Each conversion process needs its own specific size or size distribution of particles Modeling the size reduction process helps to optimize the design and control of the
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The ball mill program was designed as to not induce heat related degradation to the biomass and consisted of 3 cycles of 60 sec of milling at 500 rpm with a 10 min rest time between cycles Samples designated for fluidized bed pyrolysis experiments were milled further to pass through 0.5 mm screen using a Wiley mill.
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Rock and Roll a simple ball mill Jeff Davis June 18 2006 In order to make my first batch of fireballs I needed some charcoal fines or dust I charred some switchgrass and leaves to start with That would be easy to reduce but was unsure how to go about this task at hand Having already removed the paddles from the cement mixer I got the
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Lignocellulosic biomass is a renewable resource that may be converted to fuels and/or chemicals 1 2 .Recent research and development efforts have examined a two step bioconversion process that involves 1 liberation of fermentable sugars from lignocellulose and 2 conversion of sugars into fuels and/or chemicals by fermentation 3 4 .The potential of lignocellulosic biomass to serve as a
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several studies showing that continuous ball milling or high shear during enzymatic hydrolysis enabled a roughly twofold increase in hydrolysis yields 14–17 More recently attrition milling of thermochemically pretreated substrates has been used as a means of reducing required enzyme loadings 1918 and long periods of ball mill
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It was confirmed that ball milled switchgrass lignin is of HGS type with a considerable amount of p coumarate and felurate esters of lignin The major ball milled lignin interunit was the beta O 4
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Switchgrass Panicum virgatum L produced for bioenergy is expected to compete with land resources used for stocker cattle Bos taurus grazing in the southern Great Plains.The objective was to determine the effect of stocking rate on animal performance biomass yield and quality Three stocking rates light 2.5 steers ha –1 moderate 4.9 steers ha –1 and heavy 7.4 steers ha –1
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This comparison shows that the attritor mill takes 120 to 240 fold less time to mill gaseous ammonia treated switchgrass as compared to the conditions used for the conventional ball mill consistent with their respective inputs of kinetic energy 0.958 MJ/kg biomass in 5 min for the attritor mill 1.397–2.794 MJ/kg in 10–20 h for the
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Freeze dried plant material from two biological replicates of each transformant class and two wild type plants was ground for 1 min to a fine powder in a Kleco ball mill 8200 Kleco Alcohol insoluble residue was prepared by washing the samples with ethanol 70 vol/vol chloroform/methanol 1 1 vol/vol and acetone once thrice and once
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Switchgrass was pelleted to evaluate the effect of densification on acidic and alkaline pretreatment efficacy Bulk density and durability of pellets were 724 kg/m 3 and 95 respectively Ground switchgrass D 90 = 21.7 mm was further ground to a fine power D 90 = 0.5 mm in the pellet mill prior to densification.This grinding increased enzymatic hydrolyzate glucose yields of non
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switchgrass carbon fuels gave better performances than the ball mi lled Hand milled carbon fuel has average particle size of 30 μm while the ball milled h as 2 μm .
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additions were necessary for a switchgrass feedstock that had senesced in the field and was stored dry addition of vitamins was not required for continuous anaerobic digestion The energy necessary to mill switchgrass slurries tended to increase when solids content increased or
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Microbial communities enriched from diverse environments have shown considerable promise for the targeted discovery of microorganisms and enzymes for bioconversion of lignocellulose to liquid fuels While preservation of microbial communities is important for commercialization and research few studies have examined storage conditions ideal for preservation.
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Preparation of switchgrass milled wood lignin MWL Air dried switchgrass was milled to pass 30 mesh in a Wiley mill Model No 2 Thomas Scientific Swedesboro NJ The dried powder was then milled in a vibratory ball mill PM100 Retsch Haan Germany for 12 h Holtman et al 2006 Suzuki et al 1998 The ball milled powder was extracted
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In brief 20 mesh switchgrass biomass was Soxhlet extracted with benzene ethanol 2 1 v/v for 24 h to remove extractives The extracted wall residue was then milled in a porcelain jar 1 l with ceramic balls using a rotatory ball mill running at 96 rpm under nitrogen for 120 h.
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About 1 g of the extractives free sample was loaded into a ZrO 2 grinding jar internal volume 50 mL with 10 ZrO 2 balls in a Retsch Ball Mill PM 100 The biomass was ball milled at
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This work studied the benefits of adding different enzyme cocktails cellulase xylanase β glucosidase to pretreated switchgrass Pretreatment methods included ammonia fiber expansion AFEX dilute acid DA liquid hot water LHW lime lime ball milling soaking in aqueous ammonia SAA and sulfur dioxide SO 2 .The compositions of the pretreated materials were analyzed and
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Grinding particles below 75 µm with the ball mill causes energy costs to rise exponentially and a P 80 of 45 40 µm is considered to be the final practical limit of product size from the ball
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Biomass Switchgrass biomass Panicum virgatum L var Alamo was supplied by the Department of Biological Agricultural Engineering at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville USA.The switchgrass biomass composed of leaves and stalk was dried and ground in a Wiley mini blade mill such that the biomass particle size was reduced below 20 mesh 0.84 mm .
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2.3 Preparation of switchgrass milled wood lignin MWL Air dried switchgrass was milled to pass 30 mesh in a Wiley mill Model No 2 Thomas Scientific Swedesboro NJ The dried powder was then milled in a vibratory ball mill PM100 Retsch Haan Ger
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Switchgrass Panicum virgatum L is a promising bioenergy feedstock because it can be grown on marginal land and produces abundant biomass Recalcitrance of the lignocellulosic components of the switchgrass cell wall to enzymatic degradation into simple sugars impedes efficient biofuel production We previously demonstrated that overexpression of OsAT10 a BAHD acyltransferase
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Compared to oxidative lime pretreatment alone adding ball milling achieved slightly higher overall glucan but at a much lower cellulase loading Table 5 Combining pretreatment techniques to Alamo switchgrass 110 C 6.89 bar O 2 240 min 72 h ball milling produced an overall glucan yield of 90.0 at a cellulase loading of 7 FPU/g raw glucan.
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size reduction machines are hammer and knife mills whereas disk and ball mills can be used to produce very fine particles Overall screen type mills work well for dry biomass but when its moisture content is larger than 25–30 the milling screens tend to clog especially for screens with an aperture size of less than 6.35 mm.
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Total carbon TC and total nitrogen TN were measured for large and SM as well as in the bulk soil Samples for TC and TN analysis were oven dried at 40 C prior to grinding in a ball mill Retsch MM400 with stainless steel beads before analysis on a Vario EL
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