Wood consumption and analysis of the bread baking process in wood-fired bakery ovens
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2012

Combustion of biomass in small-scale furnaces is used widely in different applications. The technology used is often "fixed grate" combustion in small batch furnaces. The efficiency of such a furnace is often low, which results in a high environmental impact. The aim of this work was to analyse the performance of the existing wood-fired bakery ovens that can be used to improve the efficiency. The data collected from 15 semi-direct and 3 indirect bakeries consisted of: the dimensions of the oven, the temperature profiles of the combustion chamber and the baking oven, the baking time and the bread quality. It was found that as much as 60 tons/day of green wood are consumed in the bread baking process in the area investigated. Two types of bakery ovens are used most commonly: indirect and semi-direct. The specific consumption was found to be 0.55 and 0.90 kg of wood per kg of wheat flour baked for the indirect and the semi-direct respectively. The analyses of the bread baked show that the variation of the temperature profile during the baking process influences the quality of the bread produced.

Wood consumption

moisture-content

Efficiency

model

crust

simultaneous heat

transport

water diffusion

maillard reaction

starch gelatinization kinetics

Measurement

Wood-fired bakery oven

Bread

Författare

Fabiao Manhica

Chalmers, Kemi- och bioteknik, Skogsindustriell kemiteknik

C. Lucas

Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM)

T. Richards

Högskolan i Borås

Applied Thermal Engineering

1359-4311 (ISSN)

Vol. 47 63-72

Ämneskategorier

Energiteknik

Kemi

DOI

10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2012.03.007

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