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Volume 7, Issue 6
Published: November 2, 2016
Drawing a circle
In starch processing, pulp waste is the main issue, especially for the biggest factories that produce massive quantities. Dealing with this waste is difficult as itis not easily dried due to its high moisture...
Seeing the wood for the trees in Uganda
Ugandan social enterprise Eco Fuel Africa (EFA) has come up with an innovative method for turning agricultural waste into clean biomass energy, leading the way onhow to cope with emissions and rampant...
Cooking up a solution
Many stove manufacturers worldwide currently build and distribute biomass-fuelled cookstoves, but the problem of producing a clean, efficient, andaffordable cookstove that is widely adopted still persists....
Tapping the untapped
Africa is a new growth market for briquetting companies, as there is a demand for sustainable energy resources as an alternative to existing energy resources. The existing resources are mainly firewood...
A chain of benefits
Biomass-based power generation is a renewable, widely available, carbon neutral technology. It has the potential to provide significant employment and income generation in rural communities, particularly...
Hot on the acquisition trail
One of the UK’s largest suppliersand distributors of premium-grade wood fuel products has seen its turnover smash through the £15 million (€17m) mark following acquisitions and a steady...
The perfect recipe
In Asia, there is so much more available biomass that could be exploited by high performing co-digestion biogas plants, generating a huge biogas output for renewable electricity in the grid. In recent...
The modern pollution problem
In recent decades, raising livestock has shifted to large professional farms. At these places, with thousands of cattle or hundreds of thousands of chickens, the old self contained cycle of farming—...
Questionable emissions
A primary motivation of anaerobicdigestion (AD) is to producemethane from biogenic sources and usethis as a versatile renewablefuel. There are variouspotential sources of methane leakage in the process...
Roll on wood
Swedish cleantech company Cortus Energy develops and markets a biomass gasification process called WoodRoll. WoodRoll is a breakthrough technology witha number of distinct technicalsolutions that are different...
Sweden can be a world-leading bioeconomy
The forests of Sweden and Finland represent more than 30% ofthe EU’s woodland. Both Nordic countries have the potential to actas pioneers in bioeconomy, leading the way and inspiring countries in...
Unlocking an industry
There is greater andgreater recognition that we must move away from petroleum-based products to help maintain the world’s climate within a suitable range. The US, China, and 73 other countries have...
To fuel the future
As the world runs out of oil and gas, it urgently needs to find alternative fuel supplies. Research at Teesside University holds some of the answers. For the past ten years, MariaOlea, a professor in chemical...
Shocking power
Boiler cleaning in biomass powerstations is essential if the plant isto keep running efficiently and without unplanned shutdowns. Online maintenance cleaning has been known to the industry in the form...
Bringing it back to the fields
Biomass is still the most important source of renewable energy, even if the term renewable may not be correct due to widespread unsustainable use of biomass. Apart from cutting fresh timber without properly...