Hydrothermal carbonisation

Hydrothermal carbonisation General Hydrothermal carbonisation treatment (HCT) is a method for upgrading biomass for solid fuel or material applications. Relatively high yields can be recovered from various biomass feedstocks under comparatively low temperature and elevated pressure 1. As the process ideally operates under saturated steam pressure, the latent heat requirement for water evaporation can be

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Mikko Mäkelä and Olli Dahl, Aalto University

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