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Jun 9, 2026
Excel as a screw feeder, or: how to calculate pyrolyser settings without leaving your desk

The plan was simple — a day off from code, hands on the pyrolyser. It ended in a thousand lines of Python, a fitted biomass decomposition kinetic model and a settings calculator covering 16 fuels. On mass balance, why screw fill ratio isn't a property of the equipment, and why nobody will reply to your email about feeder settings this week.

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