Kaur, Baldeep ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1762-3058 and Bradley, Michael (2025) An experimental measurement technique to detect self-heating in biomass. In: Safe Wood Pellet Storage: "Safe Wood Pellet Storage Preventing, Detecting, and Managing Self-Heating Incidents", 2nd - 3rd September, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Abstract

Biomass is one of the main contributors to produce renewable energy for UK and Europe and is growing rapidly as a fuel in many other countries. However it regularly encounters fires arising in large stores due to self-heating, which cause high financial loss (£ millions per event), pollution and danger to life. Such types of fires are more common than anticipated. Past experience with developing many tests for characterisation of bulk solids has taught us that modelling and testing based on chemistry and nominal physical specifications (e.g. particle size) cannot give a good representation of the behaviour or particles in a bulk form. This is because there is an almost infinite variety of variation in physical form including particle shape, fines content, durability, surface texture, homogeneity etc, all of which affect the behaviour, but that cannot be captured by analysis. Therefore, any successful measurement must of necessity involve the use of a small sample of the “real” bulk solid in its form as present in the system, including effects of particle breakage, segregation etc. This talk explores the experimental procedure and set-up to investigate the effect of environmental conditions on availability of reactive substances, the markers during off-gassing to indicate ageing, measures to remove reactants and explore the availability of reactants.

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Lecture)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	biomass, self-heating; storage and transport
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General) T Technology > T Technology (General) T Technology > TP Chemical technology
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > School of Engineering (ENG) Faculty of Engineering & Science > Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology
Last Modified:	12 Feb 2026 16:44
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/52470

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