On the degradation of wood pellets during pneumatic conveying : Experiments and DEM-CFD simulations.

Intro -- Glossary -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Motivation -- 1.2 Objective and outline -- 2 Basic principles and state of the art -- 2.1 Wood pellets as biomass fuel -- 2.2 Basics of pneumatic conveying -- 2.3 Experimental studies and numerical examinations -- 2.4 Demarcation of own thesis -- 3 Numerical methods -- 3.1 Fluid phase modelling -- 3.2 Solid phase modelling -- 3.3 Modelling of particle-fluid interaction -- 4 Single particle degradation analysis -- 4.1 Experimental setup -- 4.2 Materials -- 4.3 Development of empirical model -- 4.4 Numerical investigation -- 5 Experimental and numerical setup forpneumatic conveying analysis -- 5.1 Experimental setup -- 5.2 Numerical setup -- 6 Conveying behaviour and particledegradation analysis -- 6.1 Overview of investigated conditions -- 6.2 Dependencies among key flow features -- 6.3 Conveying behaviour -- 6.4 Particle degradation -- 7 Summary and outlook -- 7.1 Summary -- 7.2 Outlook -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Bibliography.

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