ANALYSIS OF PROBLEMS OF BIOMASS GRINDER INTEGRATED WITH BRIQUETTING PLANT

Ajay Kumar Choubey, Anil Kumar Dubey, P L Singh

Abstract: In briquetting plant, briquettes are produced through small pieces of soybean stalk, pigeon pea straw, lantana stalk, cotton stalk with moisture content below 10%. Biomass grinding machine is an important part of the briquetting plant, whose function is to convert aggregate material in to small pieces. Biomass grinder consists of mainly hammer, grate and shaft. Shaft is an essential component of grinding machine, when holds hammers, pulley and fan. The failures of shaft bearing were observed due to non uniform distribution of stress. The study was under taken to conduct simulation study of shaft for stress analysis with the help of FE software ANSYS 12.0.1.

Keywords: Biomass Grinder, FEM, Stress-strain, Stepped Shaft

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0210020