Equipment manufacturers are designing harvesting and handling machinery tailored to biomass material, but marketing those systems outside of Europe is proving difficult without robust biomass markets.
The biomass briquette business is rebounding after enduring tough economic times that drove some interest away from the industry.
Researchers in Missouri have developed a biomass compactor they say can produce tablets with higher material density, and therefore higher energy density, than other unified biomass products on the market.
Researchers in the Southern U.S. are drilling into the challenges of establishing dedicated energy crops such as switchgrass in anticipation of increased demand.
A proposed new Maximum Achievable Control Technology standard that would impose stricter hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emission limits and other requirements on biomass boilers and process heaters could lead to greater expenditures, and the financial
New technology developed by Fecon engineers and North Carolina State University forest experts turns green waste into gold.
October 25, 2010
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack's announcement of USDA cost share for 10,000 blender pumps over the next five years is good news for the industry. The money is to come from existing funding, through existing programs - all of which means the infrastructure effort can begin rolling quickly. (Well, quickly for a program coming out of Washington.)
By Rona Johnson
October 22, 2010
On Thursday, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the final rule for the Biomass Crop Assistance Program would be published in the Federal Register today. It seems he misspoke and it won't be released until Wednesday of next week.
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