Improving the quality of sorting wood chips by scanning and machine vision technology | Igor Grigorev, Anatoly Shadrin, Sergey Katkov, Vyacheslav Borisov, Varvara Druzyanova, Irina Gnatovskaya, Roman Diev, Natalya Kaznacheeva, Dmitry Levushkin, Dmitriy Akinin Agricultural Journals

The use of agro-industrial residues are currently experiencing an undeniable revival interest in developing fully renewable insulation materials, that can be competitive price and performance, addition low embodied energy. Among these vegetable waste materials; wood chips. These latter light, compressible very sensitive to water, due their highly porous structure, which constantly modifies ther...

The research was conducted with the goal to determine variability of quality parameters wood chips produced from most favorable raw material (energy roundwood), and in controllable operational conditions (pellet factory), as first step identifying opportunities optimize chips’ monitoring. Four types were tested: fir/spruce beech debarked energy roundwood, well bark same species. Sampling during...