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Volume 8, Issue 5
Q&A with Drax Biomass president and CEO Pete Madden
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Drax Biomass, a North American subsidiary of UK-based Drax Group, is led by presidentand CEO Pete Madden.In this role, he oversees the company’s operations including manufacturing facilities in the Southeastern US, ensuring they are environmentally sound, safe, and professionally managed to meet the market demand for compressed wood pellets.
Time with Belfaconstruct's owner Bert Boonen
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Belfaconstruct, a Belgium headquarted concrete and steel tank specialist, is pushing ahead with its investment plans. The company is helping to provide tanks for a new biogas plant in Skogn, Norway, which will be producing liquefied biogas and double the Norwegian renewable energy capacity.
Biogas: Cut risk, not corners
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Over-economising at the plant design stage can compromise safety and nsurability long term, says renewable energy insurance broker, Duncan Gordon. Good plant design and separation of equipment may help prevent losses and maintain reasonable insurance premiums.
Betting all one's chips on biogas
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Located in Southwestern British Columbia, Canada, the Fraser Valley with its rich soils, moderate climates and market proximity is a region naturally-made for farming. It is here that Heppell’s can trace its origins as a potato and dairy farm to the early 1920s.
Canadian biogas and RNG market snapshot
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Momentum is growing nationally for biogas and renewablenatural gas (RNG) in Canada. Provinces that represent more than 86% of Canada’s population are making commitments to support biogas and the production of RNG driven by the necessity to reduce greenhouse gas(GHG) emissions and achieve a low-carbon economy.
Made to measure
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Moisture measurement in the production process of wood pellets for bioenergy is an important parameter for a number of reasons. Firstly, it allows for the production process to be optimised through energy saving during the drying stage, and by reducing waste.
The evolving 'world' of biomass fuel preparation
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Biomass is regarded as a very modern day energy source, and rightly so. It is just one of many feedstocks produced from the sophisticated transformation of materials that a numberof people would simply consider ‘waste’.
Transforming biomass
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Biomass, independent of species — be it wood or agricultural biomass, farmed grasses or timber industry by-products — can be significantly upgraded in quality by roasting in an oxygen depleted atmosphere.
