Cofiring torrefied biomass with coal seems like a great way to reduce emissions, but is it economical?
Biomass Power & Thermal investigates potential technical and safety issues involved in storing and handling biomass at cofired power plants.
While cofiring woody biomass with coal is more common on a testing scale than commercial, most issues related to co-combustion within the boiler can be alleviated with proper fuel sizing and blending.
Strong tax incentives, a highly trained workforce, ample forestry materials and government investment in research and development make Ontario a great location for biomass power development.
A technique based on carbon dating will soon be used in the U.K. to determine the proportion of energy from waste that is renewable.
The U.K. Renewable Energy Association on Aug. 23 launched its Back Biomass campaign, aimed at ensuring suitable levels of government support for biomass power and combined heat and power.
A U.K. white paper and accompanying energy roadmap put emphasis on biomass potential.
Study: Biomass technologies plus carbon capture/storage have global potential for negative CO2 emissions.
The first application of Pyrogenesis's plasma gasifier is operating for the U.S. Air Force in Florida.
A new online tool calculates the benefits of the U.K.'s Renewable Heat Incentive.
Biomass is not a silver bullet but it plays a key energy role.
Vineyards LLC is developing a data center campus, Vineyards Data Center Park, which will be powered by a 50-megawatt biomass plant. The use of biomass for energy provides attractive power pricing that should be enticing to potential occupants.
A $5,000 research grant was awarded to undergraduate students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by British Petroleum. The purpose of the grant is for students to learn the engineering properties of biomass.
Faced with increasing pressure to reduce emissions, the Rio Tinto Alcan Lynemouth Aluminum Smelter, located in Northeast England's village of Lynemouth, is considering a switch from coal power to biomass at its on-site 420-megawatt power station.
Over the 20-year term of its proposed biomass combined-heat-and-power plant, Clark County, Wash., will receive a total benefit of more than $11 million and be capable of extending the life of its existing equipment, according to Clark County.
The Appeal Court of North Carolina has unanimously turned down an appeal against a decision by the North Carolina Utilities Commission to allow the inclusion of wood chips derived from low-value whole trees in the state's renewable energy definition.
Kiara Solar LLC, a California-based power generation company, plans to restart a dormant biomass power plant in Anderson, Calif. The plant was purchased from Siskiyou Forest Products, a wood processing company in Anderson.
A lawsuit filed recently by a number of conservation groups challenges the U.S. EPA's three-year deferral of biogenic emissions under the Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule. The agency has said it will use that time to further study the issue.
A 56-megawatt biomass power plant slated for operation in October 2012 will be Georgia's largest, located on an industrial site in southeast Laurens County near Dublin.
Forest Concepts LLC developed two baling systems scientifically engineered for woody and tall grass biomass. The balers were designed to solve the problem of using agricultural balers for biomass purposes.
A life-cycle assessment comparing biomass power to coal power shows biomass emits just 4 percent of the carbon dioxide coal power emits. The report also found that sustainably managed forests are better than carbon neutral.
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack visited a waste-to-energy bioprocessing facility under construction in Florida on Aug. 11 to announce that the USDA and U.S. DOE have awarded 10 grants totaling $12.2 million to spur research into biofuel and bioenergy crops.
BC Hydro, British Columbia, Canada's largest electric utility, has selected four biomass projects as part of its self-prescribed clean energy initiative called the Bioenergy Call to Power.
The 'Community Roadmap to Renewable Woody Biomass Energy: A Step-by-Step Decision-Making Tool for New Hampshire Communities' was developed to help communities determine whether woody biomass technology makes sense at a facility or district level.
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