biomass torrefaction News
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Airex Energy’s biochar is now certified for sale and use in Canada
Airex Energy, a world leader in large-scale biomass torrefaction, is pleased to announce that it has received approval from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for the sale and use of its BiocharFX product in Canada. BiocharFX is a 100% natural and organic soil amendment. Its high carbon content promotes plant growth and yields by improving soil aeration and drainage, nutrient retention, ...
By Airex Energy
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This Is Bio4Energy
Bio4Energy wants to thank its members, stakeholders and funders for its five first years of building a research environment that links up key academic and business organisations actively trying to promote biorefinery—the invention and production of advanced biofuels, bio-based chemicals and materials from woody biomass or organic waste. To do so, and to spread the word further afield, ...
By Bio4Energy
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ANDRITZ to supply pressurized refining system to MDF customer in Mexico
International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from Maderas y Sintéticos de México to deliver a chip washing system and a 54”-1CP pressurized refining system to the MDF production site in Las Morales, Mexico. Start-up is scheduled for the first half of 2016. Maderas y Sintéticos de México is a member of the Masisa Group, a leading producer of ...
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ANDRITZ to supply new waste-to-energy power plant to Riikinvoima Oy, Finland
International technology Group ANDRITZ has been selected by the local utility company Riikinvoima Oy to supply a waste-to-energy power plant to Leppävirta, Finland. Start-up is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2016. The new plant is designed to treat 145,000 tons of waste per year coming from eight local waste management companies. The design capacity is 16 megawatts for electricity and ...
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3rd AEBIOM European Bioenergy Conference 2012 provides knowledge and business opportunities
Meet the EU decision makers and leading bioenergy companies in the high level AEBIOM Bioenergy Conference 2012 organized in Brussels! Focus 2012: EU legislation, sustainable feedstock supply and market opportunities. The 3rdAEBIOM European Bioenergy Conference 2012 is organized on 25-26-27 June 2012, at the Renaissance Brussels Hotel, in the city centre of the European capital – Brussels, ...
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Torrefaction Demonstration Unit Takes Shape outside Umeå, Sweden
January 2015 will see the startup of a high-efficiency, 65 million-Swedish-kroner demonstration unit for the torrefaction of woody biomass at Holmsund, Sweden. This technology for roasting biomass invented by Bio4Energy researchers has already been tested at pilot facilities at Umeå, a 20-minute drive from the demonstration unit in progress. While not fully operational until April 2015, the ...
By Bio4Energy
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How Making Charcoal From Biomass Helps To Reduce CO2 Emissions
While coal is an extremely cheap way to obtain energy, it also has serious environmental impacts. Burning coal releases a great deal of carbon into the atmosphere, enhancing the levels of greenhouse gasses and accelerating the process of global warming. Because of this, decreasing the carbon footprint of coal power plants is normally essental to the us government, or may result in serious tax ...
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ConocoPhillips, Enviva LP Partner to Develop Torrefied Wood Pellet Business
Enviva LP ("Enviva"), a leading manufacturer of processed biomass fuel in the United States and Europe, today announced that it has partnered with ConocoPhillips, a prominent international oil and gas producer, to create a new company, ECo Biomass Technologies ("ECo Biomass"), which will bring torrefied biomass fuels to market. ECo Biomass, jointly owned by Enviva and ConocoPhillips, will use a ...
By Enviva LP
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New torrefaction technology can help replace coal in power plants
Coal was originally biomass, which was then transformed over millions of years into an extremely dry, energy-rich fuel. At the World Bioenergy conference and trade fair from 25-27 May in Jönköping, Sweden, the Swedish company Torkapparater AB will present their drying and torrefaction technology that transforms fresh biomass into a coal like substitute. The torrefaction process can also ...
By Elmia AB
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Researchers: Bio4Energy Rules at Leading Biomass Fuel Quality Conference
Late October, leading researchers on the quality of biomass-based fuels met as an Impacts of Fuel Quality on Power Production conference—given this year at Snowbird, Utah, U.S.A.—with one in five talks being delivered by a scientist from Bio4Energy. While the conference is one of the most respected recurrent events on biomass combustion and gasification research, this year was ...
By Bio4Energy
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