Analysis of the efficiency of the experimental laboratory setup for separating wood particles by resin content

This article examines issues of rational environmental management. It addresses the challenges of utilizing all wood biomass as raw material for producing process chips or chips for generating thermal energy and generator gas, as well as for a variety of promising chemical industries. The relevance of the study lies in the separation of wood chips not only by size but also by resin content, dividing them into fractions in an electrostatic field. The aim of the study is to develop an experimental setup for sorting wood particles with different resin contents in an electrostatic field. The objects of study in this article are the designs of devices for separating chips by various characteristics. A search method was used, including a review of existing sorting device designs, their analysis, comparison, generalization, and specification, identifying analogs and prototypes and their attendant shortcomings. Based on this, several promising areas of research in the field of wood chip sorting by resin content were identified. A schematic diagram of a separation unit for separating wood chips in an electrostatic field was developed, and the basis for its operation was presented. A full-scale experimental laboratory prototype of a separator for separating wood chips by resin content is presented. Its parametric dimensions are determined. A methodology for performing full-scale laboratory experiments on the separation of industrial chips and the results of an experiment on differentiating industrial chips by resin content are presented. The input parameters of the experimental laboratory setup, which completely separates wood chips by resin content fractions, are presented. Subsequent stages of research into the process of separating wood chips by resin content are outlined.

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