Jul 17, 2019
Canadian Government invests in Indigenous biomass district heating system
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Jul 16, 2019
The Bioenergy Association of New Zealand welcomed the proposal from Government in its Action on Agricultural Emissions to provide credits for reductions of gross greenhouse gas emissions from farms.
Brian Cox, executive officer of the Bioenergy Association said that “The Government proposals will open up opportunities for farmers to offset biological emissions from... [Read More]
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Jul 16, 2019
Ireland’s Energy in Agriculture 2019 returns for the fourth year on August 20 and aims to provide practical information for farmers and the rural sector about the various renewable energy and energy-efficiency options available for farm businesses.
It is organised jointly by Teagasc, Tipperary County Council, the Irish Farmers’ Association, Tipperary Energy Agency... [Read More]
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Jul 16, 2019
From several stories up at Exelon’s Albany Green Energy plant, you can see a massive pile of chipped up wood, known as biomass. A long conveyor carries it up into the plant, where it’s fed into a boiler.
The biomass burns to make electricity for Georgia Power. Around the corner from the wood pile, a long tube snakes off, carrying leftover steam to power a Proctor... [Read More]
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Jul 16, 2019
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Tennessee has been awarded a $40,000 (€35,000) grant to collaborate with the nonprofit Resource Capture and develop a more sustainable way to manage the booming Nashville metropolitan area's organic wastes, and in the process provide a valuable soil amendment for the region's farmers.
The Nashville... [Read More]
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Jul 15, 2019
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises’ (B&W) subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Vølund has successfully handed over its biomass-to-energy power plant in Margam, Wales, to Margam Green Energy.
Vølund will operate the plant for Margam under a 15-year operations and maintenance contract, which will burn wood waste to generate 40 MW of electricity per year.
“Vølund’s... [Read More]
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Jul 11, 2019
Anellotech’s MinFree™ technology, an innovative, patent pending biomass pretreatment process has been demonstrated to significantly reduce the mineral (ash) content of loblolly pine at a 20 metric tonnes/day scale. Month-long trials converting this MinFree™-treated, low-mineral pine into aromatics (BTX) at Anellotech’s Bio-TCat™ process... [Read More]
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Jul 5, 2019
Canfor Pulp Products has announced it will be implementing phased summer curtailments in July and August at its Intercontinental and Northwood NBSK pulp mills in Prince George, British Columbia (BC). This is due to a significant deterioration in market conditions, in combination with fibre supply constraints and higher fibre costs resulting from recent sawmill curtailments... [Read More]
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Jul 5, 2019
Scots are recycling more food waste than ever with the total volume and its associated carbon savings leaping by more than 40% in recent years, according to reports published by Zero Waste Scotland.
Findings from the Scottish anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas sector survey 2017, as well as the Scottish composting sector survey 2017, show a significant rise... [Read More]
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Jul 1, 2019
Bruks Siwertell has completed the on-time installation and successful performance tests of a new 600t/h Siwertell ship unloader at Yara International’s Norwegian fertilizer terminal in Glomfjord; 5km into the Arctic Circle and home to some of the most tightly-controlled environs in the world.
“Yara International is very satisfied and impressed that, just... [Read More]
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Jun 28, 2019
Drax Group has announced plans to explore the feasibility of using molten carbonate fuel cells to capture carbon dioxide (CO2), having secured £500,000 in funding from the UK Government.
The project will explore using FuelCell Energy’s molten carbon fuel cell to generate electricity while capturing CO2 from flue gases produced during biomass combustion at Drax’s... [Read More]
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Jun 26, 2019
A new research project led by the European Union (EU) has been launched to design a new small-scale cogeneration engine powered by biomass, which will produce heat and electricity.
Known as SmartCHP, the project is a collaboration between ten partners, including European industrial companies, universities and innovation experts. It will be coordinated by BTG Biomass Technology... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2019
The £160 million (€180 million) renewable electricity Margam Green Energy Plant, located three miles south-east of Port Talbot in south Wales, has entered commercial operation. The plant is owned by Glennmont Partners, one of Europe’s largest and best-known renewable energy fund managers.
The main contractor for the Margam power project, the consortium... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2019
Work is to start on a 300,000MT per year heat-based phytosanitation facility for biomass fuel-grade wood chips located 13 miles from Port of Searsport, Maine.
Aeon Energy Solutions, Alabama, announces the start of work on a 300,000MT heat based phytosanitation facility. Phase I processing equipment will be provided by TDC designer and EPC Contractor of Topeka, Kansas designers... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2019
Smithfield Foods announces the construction of new biogas gathering systems in Missouri and Utah, which bring the company steps closer to delivering renewable natural gas (RNG) to communities in multiple states using manure from its hog farms. Detailed in its recently released sustainability report, Smithfield’s manure-to-energy projects are part of Smithfield... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2019
Monica Normark is the new acting head of the biorefinery technology at clean-tech company Sekab E-technology, as of June 2019. She has been with Sekab E-Technology for two years, working primarily with developing technology for large scale production of biofuel and renewable fuel.
“Everything you can make with crude oil can be made using biomass instead, which of... [Read More]
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Jun 13, 2019
As climate change makes daily headlines, all available solutions to mitigate it must be thoroughly investigated and then deployed in an evidence-based way, fair to our environment and societies.
Figures show that RES consumption has steadily increased over the last decades, with bioenergy counting today for 63% of EU final renewable energy consumption. The time has come... [Read More]
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Moeve has announced a €600 million investment plan for the construction of up to 30 new biomethane plants by 2030
During the signing ceremony, Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Maria Malmer Stenergard, announced a donation of USD 1.5 million for prefeasibility and detailed engineering studies
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