Cellulosic Pretrement - Direct steam injection heating of fibrous slurries

This article focuses on Cellulosic Pretreatment heating strategies with Direct Steam Injection (DSI) heating and how to transition from a lab environment to a successful process level production design. Typical applications include cellulosic & biomass ethanol processing, pulp stock processes, and other process fluid heating applications where fibrous materials are present in the process. Topics covered will be how DSI works, keys to successful DSI integration with fibrous slurries, & Pilot Lab design considerations with a focus towards eventual production environment. This article was published in the July 2008 issue of the Biomass Magazine.