Biomass Cofiring Articles & Analysis
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According to data released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), biomass has a carbon emission intensity of 18 g/(kW·h), comparable to wind power and negligible compared to fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas. As a result, biomass energy is considered a theoretically "zero-carbon" fuel. With reserves second only to coal, oil, and natural gas, it is regarded as ...
Continuing its years-long investigation of whether torrefied biomass could extend its life, Boardman Power Station is prepping to undergo a substantive test burn. ...
The oil refining industry is facing harder policies on renewable content in its products. One way to meet this is to produce diesel and gasoline from gasification of biomass via a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis. In this paper, heat integrating a biomass-to-FT syncrude process with a refinery is compared to a stand-alone biomass-to-FT syncrude process, in terms of the consequences for GHG ...
Briquetting has allowed one wood processing firm to optimise its strategy for increasing value and has led to the creation of a new line of business. Robeta OHG operates a saw mill in Brandenburg, Germany. The company processes around 280,000m3 of pine wood a year, which is sourced exclusively in the forests of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Instead of selling on loose woodchips to ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports that more than 200,000 boilers, process heaters and incinerators will be impacted by a set of Clean Air Act regulations issued on February 21, 2011. Since EPA first proposed the Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) rules in April 2010, several industry sectors have argued the costs of implementing the rules would pose an unreasonable ...
Greenhouse gas reduction occurs as a result of substitution of woody biomass for coal. Coal is the worst amongst all the fossil fuels in terms of greenhouse gas emission per unit of electricity generated. Recent concerns related to the environmental impact of greenhouse gases from using fossil based feedstock, like coal, for the generation of power, specifically electricity have driven the need ...