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Gilvari, H. (author), Eijssen, Dirk (author), IJzermans, Kasper (author), Stolk, Maarten (author), Homsma, Thom (author), de Jong, W. (author), Schott, D.L. (author)The large-scale storage of biomass pellets is challenging due to health issues, material loss, and the risk of fire and explosions. The thermal conductivity is a material property which plays a key role in determining the self-heating properties of biomass. Meanwhile, understanding the thermal conductivity and the affecting factors help to...poster 2018
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Mohajeri, M. (author), Sickler, Femke M. (author), van Rhee, C. (author), Schott, D.L. (author)Grabs are often used for unloading bulk carriers that deliver iron ore cargoes. The grabbing process starts with cutting the free surface of the bulk iron ore. For that reason, the initial penetration depth of the grabs' knives into the material is an important success factor in their filling ratio. The resistance to penetration is influenced...journal article 2018
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Dafnomilis, I. (author), Duinkerken, M.B. (author), Junginger, M. (author), Lodewijks, G. (author), Schott, D.L. (author)This paper investigates the optimization of biomass terminal equipment deployment. A mixed integer linear programming model is developed and applied to minimize the terminal's investment and operational costs related to dedicated and partially used or shared equipment between a terminal's operational steps. The results minimize annual...journal article 2018
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Dafnomilis, I. (author), Lodewijks, G. (author), Junginger, M. (author), Schott, D.L. (author)Wood pellet imports are expected to increase in the European Union and Southeast Asia by 2030, considering pellets are the main feedstock used for co-firing in power plants throughout these regions. Due to the material's physical and biological properties, the equipment at an import terminal need to be different than what is used for other...journal article 2018
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Lommen, S.W. (author), Lodewijks, G. (author), Schott, D.L. (author)Purpose: Bulk material-handling equipment development can be accelerated and is less expensive when testing of virtual prototypes can be adopted. However, often the complexity of the interaction between particulate material and handling equipment cannot be handled by a single computational solver. This paper aims to establish a framework for...journal article 2018
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Ma, W. (author), Schott, D.L. (author), Lodewijks, G. (author)Deep sea mining tailings disposal is a new environmental challenge related to water pollution, mineral crust waste handling, and ocean biology. The objective of this paper is to propose a new tailings disposal procedure for the deep sea mining industry. Through comparisons of the tailings disposal methods which exist in on-land mining and the...journal article 2017
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Do, H.Q. (author), Aragon, A.M. (author), Schott, D.L. (author)This research aims at developing a universal methodology for automated calibration of microscopic properties of modelled granular materials. The proposed calibrator can be applied for different experimental set-ups. Two optimization approaches: (1) a genetic algorithm and (2) DIRECT optimization, are used to identify discrete element method...conference paper 2017
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Ma, W. (author), van Rhee, C. (author), Schott, D.L. (author)Airlifting technology utilized in deep-sea mining (DSM) industry was proposed in the 70s of last century, which was triggered by the discovery of vast amounts of mineral resources on the seabed. The objective of this paper is to assess the technological feasibility and profitability analyses in terms of solid production rate, energy consumption...journal article 2017
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Dafnomilis, I. (author), Hoefnagels, Ric (author), Pratama, Yudistira W. (author), Schott, D.L. (author), Lodewijks, G. (author), Junginger, Martin (author)Biomass is the largest source of renewable energy carrier in the European Union (EU) contributing to over 60% of renewable energy, with the majority of supply coming from domestic sources. However, an increasing significant amount of feedstock is imported, either due to domestic undersupply or higher production costs within the country. This...journal article 2017
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Mahajan, A. (author), Dafnomilis, I. (author), Hancock, V.E. (author), Lodewijks, G. (author), Schott, D.L. (author)Dust generation when handling wood pellets is related to the durability of the product, in other words the wear rate of particles subject to forces. During transport, storage and handling wood pellets undergo different forces when interacting with different pieces of equipment.<br/><br/>This paper assesses the representativeness of the tumbling...conference paper 2017
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Chen, G. (author), Liu, Y. (author), Lodewijks, G. (author), Schott, D.L. (author)The handling of iron ore bulk solids maintains an increasing trend due to economic development. Because iron ore particles have hard composites and irregular shapes, the bulk solids handling equipment surface can suffer from severe sliding wear. Prediction of equipment surface wear volume is beneficial to the efficient maintenance of worn areas....journal article 2017
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Chen, G. (author), Schott, D.L. (author), Lodewijks, G. (author)Large-scale handling of particulate solids can cause severe wear on bulk solids handling equipment surfaces. Wear reduces equipment life span and increases maintenance cost. Examples of traditional methods to reduce wear of bulk solids handling equipment include optimizing transport operations and utilizing resistant materials. To our...journal article 2016
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Derakhshani, S.M. (author), Schott, D.L. (author), Lodewijks, G. (author)Dust emissions can have significant effects on the human health, environment and industry equipment. Understanding the dust generation process helps to select a suitable dust preventing approach and also is useful to evaluate the environmental impact of dust emission. To describe these processes, numerical methods such as Computational Fluid...conference paper 2013
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