The processing of woody biomass waste piles for use as fuel instead of burning them was 11 investigated. At each landing slash pile location, a 132 kW grapple excavator was used to transfer 12 the waste piles into a 522 kW horizontal grinder. Economies of scale could be expected when 13 grinding a larger pile, although the efficiency of the loading operation might be diminished. Here, 14 three ...

This paper studies the surface finish and integrity of glass, silicon, some advanced ceramics and aluminum-based metal matrix composites (MMCs) reinforced with ceramic particles, precision machined by various machining processes. The studies revealed that grinding/lapping operations using inexpensive machine tools can produce ductile streaks on glass and silicon surfaces under good grinding/lap...

This paper presented a new grinding method in relation to the focus of high-speed precision machining for non-circular parts. We designed and integrated a set of grinder NC system, refitted an experimental NC grinder and researched into the control core of the NC grinder-open Programmable Multi-Axis Controller (PMAC), linear motor feed unit and high-speed electrical spindle unit. The numerical ...