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Volume 9, Issue 2
Published: March 13, 2018
A new era for the woodchips market
The wood chip for energy market is starting to see some significant changes due to the advent of some large projects which could open up new supply markets. Traditionally, woodchips have been used across...
A powerful story
With processing plants and deep-waterexport terminals across five US states, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi and Florida, Enviva is the world’s largest producer of industrial...
Belt, chain or screw?
There are various ways in which biomass can be used to generate power, heat or fuel. The predominant technology for biomass utilisation is combustion and co-firing. Other popular methods are gasification,...
Good vibrations
It was only in 2017, more than 15 years after the UK introduced its renewables obligation initiative, that renewable power generated more energy than coal and gas. This power came from solar panels, wind...
Grinding out a gasification solution
Rawlings wood grinders are currently operating at several of the largest biomass power plants in the United States. Since 1976, the company has focused on manufacturing grinding equipment that turns low...
With innovation comes potential
In the face of evolving environmental pressures, clients naturally create new ongoing challenges for the firms appointed to handle their ‘waste’. But when installing shredding systems to ensure...
A promising new biomass technology
The interest inenergy carriers from biomass, especially waste-biomass is increasing in view of the global efforts to promote a bio-economy. The use of carbohydrate-based organic residues, such as straw,...
Small is beautiful
Two trends are currently dominating the bioenergy industry — a strive to utilise as many potential feedstocks as possible to reduce waste and boost the circular economy, and a drift towards decentralised...
Making bioenergy great again?
A year and a bit on from the arrival of President DonaldTrump in the White House, the question of how bioenergy developers are faring in the US yields a range of answers depending on who you ask and where...
AD in the Golden State
Dairy farmers face regulatory challenges today that did not exist a generation ago. In addition to manure/nutrient management and water consumption issues, new regulations for air quality and land management...
Stepping up to the plate
Municipalities, businesses and residents increasingly choose to divert their organics from landfill-bound waste streams. It’s the circular economy at its finest: what was waste becomes a resource....
Biogas: opportunities for you and me
The European renewable energy industry knows that the EU’s revised Renewable EnergyDirective, (RED II) is going to have a huge impact on their prospects. “This single piece of legislation will...
Working towards an integrated European biomethane market
The European Renewable Gas Registry (ERGaR) is striving to create an ‘independent, transparent and trustworthy’ administrative system to facilitate cross border transactions of renewable gases...
Could poultry manure be the future for bioenergy?
Late in 2017, Professors Amit Grossand Vivian Mau fromBen-Gurion Universityof the Negev in Israelreleased a study claimingthat when converted to combustible solid biomass,the treated excrement of chickens,...