Bio-coal is a torrefied product used to generate heat and electrical power for residential and industrial purposes. Bio-coal is a sustainable alternate to coal in most circumstances. Bio-Coal has a commercial advantage over whitewood pellets as the energy cost is about the same and the CAPEX requirements to convert an existing plant to bio-coal is significantly lower. Whitewood pellets require storage under cover and special handling systems to process.
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Hmmm. This Bio-Coal thingy looks good to me. One of my major concerns in the use of âbiofuelsâ as we call them is the spread of plant diseases, examples: pine beetles and ash borers. I would guesse the heat would kill all disease? But what about when you move harvesting equipment to new locations? Iâm going to have to learn more about this.
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Bio-Coal seems to be similar to carbonite. Is it actually different? Making Charcoal without Smoke - #202 by f_pal
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I thought carbonite was essentially a charcoal briquette product.
Coppice willow seems to show excellent biofuel potential.
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Definition of carbonite. 1 : a blasting explosive varying greatly in formula but containing among its ingredients a carbonaceous substance (as oak bark), a nitrate, and now usually nitroglycerin. 2 [ 1carbon + -ite ] : a natural coke usually resulting from contact of coal deposits with igneous rock intrusions.
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Makes charcoal from Beatles kill
makes charcoal not tortilied wood
is a small plant that can be moved
could possibly make fuel briquette for vehicle use if there was a market for that .
Biomass Secure Power Inc.
PO Box 21098 Southgate
Chilliwack, BC
V2P 8A9 , CANADA
http://www.BiomassSecurePower.com
604-807-4957
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We are developing a Torrefied Biomass Briquette plant at Natchitoches Louisiana. The project will be constructed in 3 phases for a combined production rate of 1 million tones per year.
We are currently developing a Torrefied Biomass Briquette (TBB) plant at Natchitoches Louisiana. The Natchitoches facility will process forest residuals, cull, thinnings, slash, tree tops, woodchips, lumber mill residuals and branches. Construction will proceed in 3 phases:
Phase 1 will produce 240,000 tonnes/yr of TBB.
Phase 2 will add 320,000 tonnes/yr of TBB.
Phase 3 will add 480,000 tonnes/yr of TBB.
Phase 1 of the plant design features 3 identical production lines with a nominal capacity of 80,000 tonnes/year each, with services to be added to enable the company to quickly initiate Phase 2 and 3 as market conditions dictate.
I think there is some other story here about sustainability . protected species act .
There is some story about a sawmill that was designed to be moved . It was never moved it was just abandoned after every tree around it was clear-cut .
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Henry I am travelling in Europe and Asia until May 17th. We have a test plant that is now closed after running many successful tests of our patented technology. We plan to commence construction in July of a plant when complete will produce one million tonnes of Biocoal.
We are finalizing agreements that will see plant full production being presold under long term contracts.
Please advise what volume you would need and we can let you know when we could meet your demand as we are planning additional plants.
Jim Carroll
Biomass Secure Power Inc
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Jim
When you build plant and fill order for pre sold contract I would like to be able to get 50 pound sample .
In the next few years , not now .
It takes some brazenness to claim that pellets made from clearcut oldgrowth or primary forests are sustainable, but thatâs exactly what the Wood Pellet Association of Canada (WPCA) has been doing. When the European Commission mooted plans for biomass sustainability standards that would exclude such pellets from subsidies, the WPCA warned that this would ruin their members. The Commission has since declared that even their very weak proposed standards are no longer on the table until 2020 at the earliest.
WPCA and their members work closely with coal power station operators across Europe â their key customers. Their members include Pinnacle Pellets, Draxâs main Canadian pellet supplier. WPCA claims that all Canadian pellets are âmade from materials that would otherwise be wastedâ, but they are working with the government of British Columbia to scale up clearcuts (âstandalone timber harvestâ) for pellets. And they are helping to create a big new market for wood from boreal forests from regions where those forests are being destroyed particularly fast, with pine beetle infestation used as a excuse for âfree for allâ logging.
This comes after years of warnings by scientists and environmental organisations alike that burning pellets sourced from logging forests in North America and elsewhere is no better for the climate than burning coal.
Rita Frost from Dogwood Alliance in North Carolina, US [6], adds: âSouthern US forests, and the communities that depend on them, have suffered from the UKâs misguided policy to subsidise biomass power stations
The two changes announced by the Government apply to Contracts for Difference (CfDs),
which are the new scheme for renewable electricity subsidies phased in from 2014-17. Previously, all biomass plants attracted a different subsidy, called Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs). ROCs are now closed to new developments. CfDs are awarded via auction in which all developers of eligible schemes compete. The auctions are decided on purely financial criteria, but the Government decides which schemes are eligible.
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New biomass power stations can no longer get subsidies unless they operate as combined heat and power plants with a minimum efficiency of 70%. Previously, they only had to achieve 35% total efficiency. To our knowledge, the only biomass CHP plants that achieve 70% in the UK are quite small plants supplying for example schools with heat and power. The new rule affects any purpose-built biomass plant, with the exception of plants classified as using âadvanced conversion technologyâ, i.e. gasification or pyrolysis. It does not apply to coal-to-biomass conversions â but we expect future conversions to be ruled out by the second rule change;
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New subsidies will only be granted for burning biomass that meets a much lower greenhouse gas limit than at present. The Government still uses an outdated and unscientific methodology that doesnât look at emissions from logging or from burning wood. Nonetheless, no imported wood pellets burned in UK power stations today meet the new limit. Thatâs because the fossil fuel emissions from processing and shipping the pellets are too high. This standard will apply to biomass CHP plants, biomass used in gasification and pyrolysis plants, and coal-to-biomass conversions. Note that subsidies are awarded separately for each unit of a coal power station converted to biomass. So there seems to be no risk of Drax being able to convert any more units to biomass when the coal units have to close in 2025.
What about biomass and/or waste gasification and pyrolysis plants?
Hardly any electricity has been produced from such plants in the UK ever, due to major technical challenges. New plants of this type wonât have to meet the 70% efficiency requirement in order to be awarded subsidies, but they will have to meet the new greenhouse gas limit for biomass. Furthermore, the Government is now consulting on additional changes which we hope will stop many of the least efficient and most polluting developments of this type. Itâs too early to be sure, though.
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