
A North Dakota native and Twin Cities resident, Anna Simet (Austin) is managing editor of Biomass Magazine at BBI International, where she has worked since June 2008. She is a graduate of the University of North Dakota and has nearly a decade of journalistic experience, the majority of which has been in bioenergy and biofuels.
Pellet production is a business in which small deviations matter. Not just in the business sense, but also in the operational sense.
As the wood pellet industry faces tightening emissions standards and expands to include advanced pellets and unconventional feedstocks like bagasse, emissions control is becoming more nuanced and more operationally critical.
In this issue of Biomass Magazine, we examine how renewable carbon is being defined, deployed and scaled—from pyrogenic biocarbon standards and orchard waste solutions to the accelerating role of renewable natural gas in transportation.
Editor's note from Biomass Magazine, Issue 4.
Biochar as a fuel replacement was one of many topics discussed at the North American Biochar Conference in Minneapolis.
TSI and Telfair Forest Products have built a torrefied biomass plant scaled to produce enough product for commercial-scale testing.
Editor's note from Pellet Mill Magazine Issue 2.