Biomass heating systems likestoves, inserts or fireplaces usually include electrical equipment such as fans or pumps, which require external energy input to work. This means that not all energy coming...

For a popular long established farm business near Reading, UK, JP Concrete has created phase one of an all-encompassing storage and safety solution to ensure the smooth and efficient operation of a new...

The Natural Resources Defence Council(NRDC) sees coal-to-biomassconversions as the wrong path to take for the world’s coal phase out journey. Here, Liz Gyekyeinterviews senior advocate Sasha Stashwick...

Maize is a very useful crop. It feeds livestock,and it is a key energy source for anaerobic digestion (AD). Securing a reliable feedstock supply is vital to the profitability of any AD plant. Most farmers...

Sweden doesn’t have any of its own sources of fossil energy. To understand how it developed into a world leading nation in terms of exploiting renewable energy,we must make a brief return to the...

Sweden is one ofthe most ambitious countries in the world when it comes to climate change mitigation. The government aims at making Sweden the first climate neutral welfare country at the latest by 2045....

At first sight, developmentof the biomass power sector may appear to have been relatively quiet in recent years, tempered by policy-makers preference for alternative renewable and low-carbon technologies,...

Siberian Wood Pellets decided to invest in its new projectin 2014, when two large sawmills in the Irkutsk region: LDK Igirma (Novaya Igirma settlement, three lines at five tonnes per hour) and TSLK (Ust-Kuttown,...

In the beautiful area of Ledro Lake in Trentino Alto Adige (Italy), near the more famous Garda Lake, an innovative project has been created, installed and started-up from the wood waste of a major sawmill...

Juha Vaahterinen’s grandfather founded KuljetusliikeVaahterinen (KV)in 1952, and the company developed into one of Finland’s first bioenergy businesses in the mid-80s. The company grinds and...

An innovative brewery in Alaska has installed asonic horn to help improve ash flow and prevent clogging in the exhaust stream of a boiler system that uses spent grain from the brewing process as fuel....

In 2016, Tramco, acompany with 50 years’experience in the material handling industry, was involved with several projects relating to the biomass sector. This included a project contracted by pellet...

Biomass Engineeringand Equipment (BE&E) of Columbus,Indiana, US, has provided material handling solutions for two advanced waste-to-energy gasification plants in Tennessee for Aries Clean Energy (formerlyPHG...

Shredding and screening are the key processing steps needed to turn waste into the desired raw material. As familiar as they may be, Komptech can always find ways to give them a new spin....

Throughout the UK, woodlands presentan important natural resource, and many of these woodlands are currently managed and maintained for a variety of easons such as commercial timber production, small-scalet...

Can you make money as willow grower? It might not be a verylikely scenario, but it can be economically viable. Here’s how:• Firstly, you need dry, first grade wood chips,whole-rod harvested...

Over the course of the last decades, the mountainpine beetle has infested trees in 40million acres of forest in the western United States and Canada. The beetle attacks and inserts fungi into the wood,...

Nik Spencer is a sustainable entrepreneur and inventor of the Home Energy Recovery Unit (HERU). Spencer has started a number of companies. These included a refuse vehicle hire company that grew to a fleet...

Scandinavia is at the forefront of greenhouse gasreductions. Sweden, for example, hasset itself the goal of reducing traffic-related fossil fuel consumption by 70% by 2030,and of becoming fossil fuel free...

Having formed the Local Residue Energy(Loreen) project in spring 2016, MevaEnergy and its partners are set to celebrate their first anniversary. Following an extensive feasibility study and work to optimise...