Process of producing dried wood chips

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Wood from broad-leaved and/or coniferous woody plants, particularly bushwood or waste wood or wood obtained in wood-growing plantations is processed, in that wood in a green state is chopped to form wood chips and is mixed with accompanying or additional fermentable green plant material, which has also been comminuted. The resulting mixture is compacted to form a compacted body of plant material in a space which is airtightly are permitted to escaps. The fermentable green plant material may consist of the bark and leaves of broadleaved woody plants, of the leaves of leaved plants of grass, or of mixtures of said materials.