Enerpellets Group is a wood pellet manufacturer, located in Portugal. The company owns and operates two production plants in the region: one in Pedrogão Grande and a second in Alcobaça. The...

October 2014 saw a clear signal of the mood of the industrial wood pellet industry in the US when leading pellet maker Enviva filed its plans for a $100 million (€94.5 million) IPO. In the filing...

Try as we may to plan and schedule certain facets of our lives, it seems there are some things that are just out of our control. Call it larger forces at work, divine intervention or just plain fate, business...

At Holzkontor Preussen, a waste management firm located in Berlin’s Spandau neighbourhood, at least 500 tonnes per day of waste wood are shredded, screened, loaded and delivered to a large wood-fired...

There are special requirements for the storage and drying of woodchips for biomass boilers, to guarantee a steady high quality. As high humidity, fungi and rot can have adverse effects, an efficient ventilation...

Dryers are used to remove moisture from flammable materials such as woodchips, sewage sludge and animal feed in order to achieve a defined residual moisture content for further processing stages. Drying...

Tilbury ‘B’ Power Station is located on the River Thames near London in Tilbury, UK. The facility is owned and operated by RWE, one of Europe’s five leading electricity and gas companies....

Woody biomass is an increasingly important part of the EU’s energy mix through its use in large scale production of heat and power. In its 2014 report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

As a result of the rapid growth of wood pellet markets, wood pellet standards and testing methodology has been in a state of constant flux. Today there are numerous standards, test methods, customer specifications,...

In most of the world, biomass energy means electricity (and heat) generated by burning wood or sugarcane bagasse. Wood and wood waste have many competing uses such as construction materials, and pulp and...

‘They use everything about the hog except the squeal,’ is a wellknown description of the meatpacking industry in the 19th century America. In today’s ethanol industry, producers are using...