Why does feedstock need chopping or shredding?
sourced
Smaller particles digest faster and more completely because enzymes can reach more surface. Choppers, shredders and hammer mills do that size reduction, and for lignocellulosic feed it is the difference between a digester that keeps up and one that silts up.
- Source
- MDPI Energies
- sourced
- Traceable to a named source.
- Level
- Beginner — New to biogas. Plain language, no units assumed.
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