Abstract In Germany, wood pellets must fulfill high quality standards to be utilized in small-scale furnaces. According current legislation, i.e., the 1st BImSchV, only EN plus A1–certified may used. Despite these strict requirements, physical fuel parameters can vary within permissible range and variation usually increases due transport storage. Fluctuations have a strong influence on combusti...

The objectives of this experiment were: 1) to determine the effects sucrose and lactose-based liquid ingredient inclusion on pelleting efficiency quality a high-fiber diet; 2) evaluate role mash conditioning temperature binding effectiveness tested ingredients. Binders included DLS (dry calcium lignosulfonate), LCM (liquid cane molasses), LMB (commercial molasses blend), LLB lactose blend). Tre...

INTRODUCTION Wood pellets are used as a source of renewable energy for heating purposes. Common exposures are wood dust and monoterpenes, which are known to be hazardous for the airways. The purpose of this study was to study the effect of occupational exposure on respiratory health in wood pellet workers. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-nine men working with wood pellet production at six plants...

*Corresponding author: Dr. Mohammad Amin Mosleh-Shirazi, Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Fax: +98 711 6474320 E-mail: [email protected] Background: The dose rate distribution delivered by a low dose rate 137Cs pellet source, a spherical source used within the source trains of the Selectron gynecological brachytherapy system, was inv...

Swallowing difficulty is a common complaint in the elderly and, although there are data for the biomechanics of liquid swallows, little is known about solid bolus motion, or kinematics, in the elderly. The aims of this study were as follows: 1) to characterize and compare solid and liquid bolus kinematics in the elderly and compare the findings with those in young subjects and 2) to correlate b...

objective: in this study investigated effects of different amounts of pelleted manure with urea and micro elements on yield and seed quality of medicinal plants, pumpkin (cucurbita pepo var. styriaca). methods: the animal manure and urea as pellet with four levels (150 kg urea, 50 kg urea + 3.5 ton animal manure, 100 (kg) urea+ 1.5 ton animal manure and 150 (kg) urea+1.5 ton animal manure) loca...

A shotgun pellet is depicted in the present image in a carotid artery under the intima, which remained intact without local complications for up to six months. There is lack of data regarding the natural history of such a carotid pellet, but the experience from the myocardium is that, in the absence of infection, completely embedded missiles are usually asymptomatic, tolerated well and may be l...

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were measured in plastic resin pellets collected from 65 beaches across 27 countries worldwide. They detected at 49 locations concentrations of the sum congeners up to 46 ng/g-pellet and a median 2 ng/g-pellet. These values are one two orders magnitude lower than those polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) (median, 51 ng/g-pellet). This difference can be attrib...