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Biomass Thermal Energy Council Praises Congressional Biomass Caucus Formation, Calls for Additional House Members
The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) today applauded the formation of the first Congressional Biomass Caucus. Led by Representatives Charlie Bass (R-NH2) and Peter Welch (D-VT), this coalition will seek to support the development of biomass and elevate the renewable resource’s profile in Congress. “We strongly support the creation of the Biomass Caucus and commend the ...
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Newest BTEC Webinar Explores Federal Biomass Energy Legislation, Policy
WASHINGTON, January 14 - The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) today announced the third webinar in its series of free educational webinars on key topics for the biomass thermal community. “Biomass Energy - A Policy Outlook: Programs, Legislation and the new Congress,” will be held January 27, 2011 at 1PM ET. This event is made possible with funding from the USDA Forest Service's Wood ...
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BTEC Presents New Webinar on Residential Biomass Heating
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 14, 2010 BTEC Presents New Webinar on Residential Biomass Heating Second in the free webinar series will be held November 4 at 3PM ET WASHINGTON, October 14 - The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) today announced the second webinar in its series of free educational webinars on topics important to the biomass thermal industry. “Green Heat for Homes: ...
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NH Adopts Full Thermal Incentive for Renewable Portfolio Standard
The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) today applauded New Hampshire Governor John Lynch and the state's Senate and House of Representatives for their passage of legislation (NH Senate Bill 218), a bill that adds thermal renewable energy to the state's renewable portfolio standard (RPS). RPS programs have been adopted in some 29 states and the District of Columbia to provide incentives to ...
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CBC Industrias Pesadas, MHI Subsidiary in Brazil, Receives Order for Biomass-fired Boiler from Country`s Largest Pulp Manufacturer
-- Contribution to Utilization of Renewable Energy -- Tokyo, June 13, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - CBC Industrias Pesadas S.A. (CBC), a wholly owned Brazilian subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has received a turnkey order for a high-capacity, high-performance biomass-fired boiler from Suzano Papel e Celulose, the largest pulp maker in Brazil. The boiler will be installed at ...
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Enviva LP Announces Wood Pellet Facility in Virginia
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Enviva LP ("Enviva"), a leading manufacturer of processed biomass fuel in the United States and Europe, today announced that it is planning to build a 454,000 metric ton wood pellet manufacturing facility in Courtland, Va., which could begin operations as early as the first half of 2013. The project is contingent on the property where the ...
By Enviva LP
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EU approves BP-DuPont biofuels venture
The two companies have been working together since 2003 and formed a partnership in 2006 in order to develop biofuels from biomass waste products, reports the News Journal newspaper of Delaware. 'The joint venture would be active in the development and commercialization of production technologies for biobutanol, a fuel component produced from biomass,' the European Commission, the EU's ...
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Steeper Energy contributes paper to HTL Issue of Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery
Copenhagen Denmark – June 16, 2017 – Steeper Energy Aps, a Danish-Canadian clean-fuel company, has contributed a paper titled “Fundamentals of Hydrofaction™: Renewable crude oil from woody biomass” to the December 2017 Issue 4 (vol. 7) of Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. The issue is edited by Dr. Frédéric Vogel and is focused on Hydrothermal ...
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Development Prospect Of Biomass Pellet Fuel Biomass Pellet Machine Supplier
The biomass pellet fuel is mainly used agricultural and forestry waste as raw materials, through crushing, mixing, extrusion, drying, and other processes, into a variety of molding (such as block, pellet, etc.), can directly burn, is a new clean fuel. Compared with liquid oil fuel, biomass pellet fuel is easy to carry and safe. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a biomass pellet fuel with a ...
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FARM 2000 Boilers are Now RHI Certified on Untreated Grade a Waste Wood
After a long development program our HT and BB range of boilers are now RHI certified on untreated Grade A waste Wood. Boilers included in this certification range from a HT60R up to and including our largest boiler, BB254H/3R. The boilers passed with flying colours with NOx and Particulates well below the allowable limits. Terry Warman our technical manager spoke on this success, “As ...
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DOE Announces Start Of Applications For Mega-Bio: Bioproducts To Enable Biofuels
On February 8, 2016, DOE announced up to $11.3 million to fund the development of flexible biomass-to-hydrocarbon biofuels conversion pathways that can produce biofuels or bioproducts based on market demands. BETO has a goal of meeting the cost target of $3/gallon gasoline equivalent (gge) for renewable hydrocarbon fuels produced from lignocellulosic biomass by 2022 and this funding opportunity ...
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Biomass-burning `behind Asian brown clouds`
Burning biomass is the main cause of the dense "brown clouds" that plague South Asia each winter, and both biomass and fossil fuel burning should be targeted to combat climate change and improve air quality. These are the conclusions of a study published today (23 January) in Science. The study, conducted at two sites in South Asia, attempted to find the main source of the carbon soot particles ...
By SciDev.Net
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Nearly 100 NREL staff to discuss innovation at WREF 2012
Nearly 100 renewable energy experts from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE)’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have been selected to present at this year’s World Renewable Energy Forum (WREF) to be held in Denver, Colo., on May 13-17, at the Colorado Convention Center. NREL’s Director, Dan Arvizu, opens the conference as a keynote speaker at the May 14 plenary ...
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Advice On Buying A Biomass Carbonization Plant Available For Purchase
Do you have a business what your location is regularly collecting recyclable materials? Perhaps you have an enterprise where you stand harvesting crops regularly. Biomass may be produced in large quantities, a great deal of which is burned or discarded, but this can actually be employed to build a renewable product that people will buy. When using certain products including plastic or rubber, and ...
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University of Georgia Creates New Biofuel from Trees
Athens, Georgia – A team of University of Georgia researchers has developed a new biofuel derived from wood chips. Unlike previous fuels derived from wood, the new and still unnamed fuel can be blended with biodiesel and petroleum diesel to power conventional engines. 'The exciting thing about our method is that it is very easy to do,' said Tom Adams, director of the UGA Faculty of Engineering ...
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“waste to energy” continues to grow
Exhibition and Conference for Energy from Waste and Biomass opens in Bremen Anyone who is involved in climate protection and energy supply security can today no longer get past the topic of waste and biomass. This is the message of “waste to energy” 2007 which was opened today, Wednesday, by Ronald-Mike Neumeyer, the Bremen Senator of Civil Engineering, Environment and Transportation. The fair ...
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Insects` gut microbes hint at biofuel breakthrough
Deep inside insects' guts may lie the key to one of the biofuel industry's great challenges: how to cost-effectively turn tough plant waste into profit-making fuel. About 50 million tonnes of lignin are produced every year worldwide, mostly as waste after the sugar, or cellulose, in a plant has been converted into ethanol. Finding a way to process this tough molecule could boost biofuel ...
By SciDev.Net
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Biorenewable chemicals: a review of technologies and feedstocks
Growing demand for biorenewable chemicals could lead to conflicts with food production and unwanted environmental impacts. Against this context, this study investigated different types of feedstock and conversion technologies. The authors recommend use of only non-edible feedstock alongside green and carbon neutral conversion technologies, such as algal fermentation. Concerns over dependence on ...
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GE to Showcase Biogas Technology for EPA, US Farmers
With the environmental impacts of agricultural activities coming under greater scrutiny, Bio Town Ag in Indiana and a community “cow power” project in Dane County, Wis., are among a growing number of U.S. farms to install anaerobic digesters and GE’s (NYSE: GE) Jenbacher biogas engines to recycle livestock wastes into renewable electricity that is ...
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