[Bioconversion] Retting and Binders

[Jeff Davis]

Dear Andrew and list,


On Sunday 26 February 2006 07:07 am, andrew wrote:
> Jeff this was a good find. I would like an explanation of how the calorific
> value can increase with retting. Retting is after all partial decomposition
> and the bugs have to respire some of the dry matter to live.

I wish I knew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe the bugs themselfs become fuel. Maybe it's 
like making charcoal but vary slow way of making charcoal......

> >  o    Various types of fibrous material may serve as binding
> >       agents.   The cheapest is hydrated wood fiber-wood waste--ground,
> >       pulped wood waste, which, when dry, binds together
> >       in the same way as paper.
>
> Can I add simple waste packaging plastics to this list. I know most
> standards setting bodies abhor the idea but I consider it a valid means of
> usefully disposing of them as a small admixture to a biomass fuel.

I have a book that mentions plastic as a binder but later it said plastic 
resin.



-- 
Jeff Davis
Somewhere 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA
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