Wood Fuels: Various

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Fuel	Wood		Wood		Wood		Wood		Wood		Wood		Wood		Wood
Type	Red Oak Sawdust		Fir Mill Waste		Furniture Waste		Hybrid Poplar		Alder/Fir Sawdust		Poplar-Coarse		Forest Residuals		Christmas Trees
	As Rec'd	Dry	As Rec'd	Dry	As Rec'd	Dry	As Rec'd	Dry	As Rec'd	Dry	As Rec'd	Dry	As Rec'd	Dry	As Rec'd	Dry
Proximate Analysis
Fixed Carbon	11.92	13.47	6.47	17.48	11.77	13.39	11.63	12.49	9.14	19.31	11.44	12.26	6.96	13.62	12.93	20.80
Volatile Matter	76.35	86.22	30.38	82.11	72.98	83.00	78.97	84.81	36.27	76.56	80.33	86.14	42.10	82.41	46.02	73.99
Ash	0.28	0.31	0.15	0.41	3.18	3.61	2.51	2.70	1.96	4.13	1.49	1.60	2.03	3.97	3.24	5.21
Moisture	11.45	--	63.00	--	12.07	--	6.89	--	52.63	--	6.74	--	48.91	--	37.81	--
TOTAL	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
Ultimate Analysis
Carbon	44.24	49.96	18.95	51.23	43.85	49.87	46.72	50.18	24.17	51.02	47.39	50.82	25.7	50.31	32.09	51.59
Hydrogen	5.24	5.92	2.21	5.98	5.2	5.91	5.64	6.06	2.75	5.8	5.49	5.89	2.35	4.59	3.47	5.58
Oxygen	38.76	43.77	15.66	42.29	35.42	40.29	37.66	40.44	18.25	38.54	38.32	41.08	20.42	39.99	22.82	36.70
Nitrogen	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.06	0.25	0.29	0.56	0.6	0.22	0.46	0.55	0.59	0.53	1.03	0.32	0.52
Sulfur	<0.01	0.01	0.01	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.05	0.02	0.02	0.06	0.11	0.25	0.40
Ash	0.28	0.31	0.15	0.41	3.18	3.61	2.51	2.7	1.96	4.13	1.49	1.6	2.03	3.97	3.24	5.21
Moisture	11.45	--	63.00	--	12.07	--	6.89	--	52.63		6.74	--	48.91	--	37.81	--
TOTAL	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
HHV, Btu/lb	7,415	8,374	3,248	8,779	7,613	8,658	7,615	8,178	4,150	8,760	7,590	8,139	4,429	8,670	5,603	9,009
Chlorine %	<0.01	<0.01	0.07	0.19	<0.01	<0.01	0.01	0.01	<0.01	0.02	0.04	0.04	0.02	0.04
Water Soluble Alkalis %
Na2O	<0.001	0.001	0.051	0.139					0.004	0.009
K2O	0.069	0.078	0.019	0.051					0.086	0.181
CaO	0.017	0.019
Elemental Composition
SiO2		20.97		15.17		57.62		5.90		35.36		0.88		17.78		38.89
Al2O3		2.99		3.96		12.23		0.84		11.54		0.31		3.55		14.74
TiO2		0.27		0.27		0.50		0.30		0.92		0.16		0.50		0.36
Fe2O3		2.94		6.58		5.63		1.40		7.62		0.57		1.58		9.30
CaO		10.90		11.90		13.89		49.92		24.90		44.40		45.46		9.50
MgO		4.15		4.59		3.28		18.40		3.81		4.32		7.48		2.52
Na2O		1.40		23.50		2.36		0.13		1.71		0.23		2.13		0.53
K2O		22.40		7.00		3.77		9.64		5.75		20.08		8.52		7.86
SO3		2.69		2.93		1.00		2.04		0.78		3.95		2.78		11.36
P2O5		1.33		2.87		0.50		1.34		1.90		0.15		7.44		2.40
CO2/other		14.30		18.92				8.18		1.85		19.52
Undetermined		15.66		2.31		-0.78		1.91		3.86		5.43		2.78		2.54
TOTAL		100.00		100.00		100.00		100.00		100.00		100.00		100.00		100.00
Alkali, Lb/MMBtu		0.09		0.14		0.26		0.32		0.35		0.40		0.49		0.49

Last Updated: 2/27/96

Analyst/Contact: Tom Miles, Jr.
T. R. Miles, Consulting Design Engineer, Portland, Oregon U.S.A.