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Volume 8, Issue 5
Published: September 4, 2017
Q&A with Drax Biomass president and CEO Pete Madden
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...
Time with Belfaconstruct's owner Bert Boonen
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...
Biogas: Cut risk, not corners
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...
Betting all one's chips on biogas
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...
Canadian biogas and RNG market snapshot
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...
Made to measure
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...
The evolving 'world' of biomass fuel preparation
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...
Transforming biomass
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...