Definitions

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  • adjective obsolete dried or roasted
  • adjective biomass fuel a biomass fuel like wood that is heated to between 100 and 280 degrees
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of torrefy.

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Examples

  • During torrefaction the biomass partly decomposes, but the resulting transformed solid biomass -- in the Sea 2 Sky case called torrefied wood pellets -- has about 30 percent more energy content per unit of mass than its original state, weighs less, is more easily transportable and is virtually pollution-free.

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News By BILL DiBENEDETTO / SPECIAL TO SEATTLEPI.COM 2009

  • France what is known as "torrefied" horn has been used.

    Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

  • It includes replacing 20 percent of the coal with "torrefied" wood-a process of "roasting" wood chips in a large furnace to remove the moisture and make the product more brittle and easier to burn-by 2025 and seeking alternative sources farther down the line.

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2010

  • It includes replacing 20 percent of the coal with "torrefied" wood-a process of "roasting" wood chips in a large furnace to remove the moisture and make the product more brittle and easier to burn-by 2025 and seeking alternative sources farther down the line.

    Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories 2010

  • The shelves were piled floor-to-ceiling with mysterious ingredients: crystal 6-row malted barley, torrefied wheat, Maris Otter, Belgian candy sugar, flaked maize, amylase enzymes.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • The shelves were piled floor-to-ceiling with mysterious ingredients: crystal 6-row malted barley, torrefied wheat, Maris Otter, Belgian candy sugar, flaked maize, amylase enzymes.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • The shelves were piled floor-to-ceiling with mysterious ingredients: crystal 6-row malted barley, torrefied wheat, Maris Otter, Belgian candy sugar, flaked maize, amylase enzymes.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • By heating biomass without oxygen available, the biomass is torrefied to produce black pellets that burn exactly like coal (but without the pollutants!).

    Clean Coal: Here Now! 2009

  • Madame Homais reappeared, carrying one of those shaky machines that are heated with spirits of wine; for Homais liked to make his coffee at table, having, moreover, torrefied it, pulverised it, and mixed it himself.

    Madame Bovary 2003

  • The solution of asphaltum in turpentine, united with drying oil by heat, or the bitumen torrefied and ground in linseed or drying-oil, acquires a firmer texture, but becomes less transparent and dries with difficulty.

    Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

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