Steam boilers are commonly used throughout industry. Operation of these boilers is energy intensive and can therefore represent a significant proportion of an organisation’s energy costs. According to the Carbon…
Category: biopower
Weltec Biopower Builds 500 kW Biogas Plant for Vegetable Producer
In January 2015, WELTEC BIOPOWER started building an anaerobic digestion plant in Loughgall, Northern Ireland. The customer and operator of the 500-kW plant is the vegetable producer Gilfresh Produce. The…
Study shows the long term benefits of bioenergy for India
As a developing country with a rapidly increasing growth rate, India’s energy needs and consumption have likewise dramatically risen. This has led to greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, causing…
Biobattery – matching energy delivery with demand through storage
Balancing supply and demand is a major issue amongst the many challenges associated with bringing renewable energy sources to the market. This is particularly the case with wind and solar.…
ChlorOut ® – Combating corrosion, fouling and emissions in biomass fired heat and power plants
It started with a desire to reduce the cost of running and maintaining Vattenfall’s own fleet of biomass fired power stations. Today the product – ChlorOut – is being installed…
Biomass in the green state of Denmark
Today, approximately 70 per cent of renewable-energy consumption in Denmark stems from biomass, mostly in the form of straw, wood and renewable wastes. In the coming years, Danish consumption of biomass will…
Enel Green Power and Maccaferri Group team up to reconvert former sugar refineries to biomass
Rome 26 March 2013 – Enel Green Power and SECI Energia (a company owned by Maccaferri Group) signed the definitive agreement whereby EGP, purchases 50% of Powercrop, the Maccaferri Group…
Biomass district heating for the city of Aarhus
Danish DONG Energy and AffaldVarme Aarhus (AVA) have agreed for a new biomass heating contract until 2030. Under this agreement one unit of the Studstrup power station in the city…
Standardkessel to build 7.5MWe biomass plant in Hawaii
Standardkessel, the long established German power plant technology company, has just closed it’s first US based dedicated biomass project. The plant is situated on the fourth largest Hawaiian island of…
Foster Wheeler wins contract for a 105 MW circulating fluidized bed biomass plant in South Korea
Foster Wheeler AG announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract by GS E&C for the design and supply of one circulating fluidized-bed…