Wood Combustion Articles & Analysis

Covanta Holding Corporation (NYSE: CVA), a world leader in development, operation and ownership of Energy-from-Waste and renewable energy projects, today announced that its purchase of two biomass energy facilities from co-owners Ridgewood Maine, L.L.C. and Indeck Energy Services, Inc. has been completed. Covanta acquired the two nearly identical facilities, located in West Enfield and Jonesboro ...

By Covanta

In New York City, The Army Corp of Engineers, the US EPA and FEMA are using a much better alternative to wood debris removal than in many past disasters. They are using Air Curtain Burners by Air Burners, Inc., the most cost effective and environmentally sensitive method of eliminating vegetative waste. Air Curtain machines do not require grinding or chipping. Whole logs, branches and root balls ...

By Air Burners, Inc.

WBA is pleased to welcome 1 full member and 7 associated members to our association. As we are a member based organization, these new companies and associations give us a major boost in our mission to promote sustainable bioenergy globally and to support the business environment for bioenergy. Full Member - Bioenergy 2.0 Association Associated Members - WSP Sverige AB, Victor Energy ApS, World ...

By World Bioenergy Association (WBA)

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By ReportLinker

The Treasury is dropping its proposals to increase the rate of landfill tax paid on incinerator bottom ash. Last year (April 2009), the Treasury launched a consultation entitled Modernising Landfill Tax Legislation and proposed to tax incinerator bottom ash at the higher rate for active waste, which is currently £48 per tonne, as opposed to the lower rate for inactive waste which is currently ...

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Cyclone Power Technologies (Pink Sheets: CYPW), developer of the all-fuel, clean-tech Cyclone Engine, announced today that it is seeking international patent protection for its scalable waste energy recycling engine known as the WHE. Cyclone has filed to protect the WHE in over 45 nations including the European Union, China and India, all areas where the company ...

By Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc.

Today there are a number of manufacturers which have produced charcoal making machines that utilize raw materials such as rice husk, plant materials, and coconut shells. The coconut shell charcoal making machine have solved the problem of an environmentally friendly way to recycle coconut shells as well as to convert this kind of rich raw material into numerous economic advantages. Concerning The ...

By Beston Group Co., Ltd.

An Environmental Protection Agency Comfort Letter recently issued regarding WastAway’s SE3™ fuel provides users solid assurances of regulatory compliance as a non-waste material, compatibility with fossil fuels, and significantly low levels of contamination. “This means the EPA concurs with our product’s capability to more cleanly utilize coal fuel resources,” said ...

By WastAway, LLC

The Bioenergy Europe board meeting took place in York, England, in mid-September. The world's largest biomass power plant, in which wood pellets produced by KAHL pelleting plants are used for alternative combustion, was ...

By Amandus Kahl GmbH & Co. KG

Axion Polymers has added two new Axfuel® High CV Polychip alternative fuels to its existing range of environmental Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) products that provide a consistent and sustainable energy solution with low carbon impact. Suitable for use in the cement industry and energy-from-waste sectors, Axfuel® High CV Polychip Grades A and B are fully-processed, technically-separated and ...

By Axion Group

More horsepower plus new hydraulic and operating systems. Those are some of the innovations on John Deere’s new bundler, the 1190E, which is being shown for the first time at World Bioenergy in Jönköping, Sweden. “Machines for handling biomass are an important part of our product mix,” explains Per Väppling, marketing manager for John Deere in Sweden and Norway. ...

By Elmia AB

Mr. Kemal Derviş, UNDP Administrator and UN Under Secretary General has commissioned a biomass gasifier plant, which uses carbon neutral biomass to produce electricity for rural villages, in Boregunte village in Karnataka. The project is supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF)/UNDP, India Canada Environment Facility (ICEF), and the Government of Karnataka and managed and run by ...

By United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Within the palm oil industry, a palm kernel shell machine is essential. These machines can easily convert biomass residue into charcoal using the carbonization process. When compared to a furnace, the shell carbonization machine is not merely more potent however it is also eco-friendly. Keep reading when we dive in the palm kernel shell charcoal machine.When biomass is processed, you'll have the ...

By Beston Group Co., Ltd.

Nexterra Systems Corp. (Nexterra), a leading supplier of biomass gasification systems, announced today that it has signed a multi-million dollar agreement with the University of British Columbia (UBC) to supply and install a biomass combined heat and power (CHP) system at UBC's Vancouver campus. This is the first installation of its kind in North America and follows three years of collaboration ...

By Nexterra Systems Corp.

The Bioenergy Insight Conference, a world-leading bioenergy event, will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 4 and 5 October 2017, covering the whole bioenergy supply chain. The show will focus on all the new developments and the latest challenges. Topics covered in the seminars include the global biomass market, financing bioenergy projects and ensuring sustainability at scale. The debut event ...

By BEA Institut für Bioenergie GmbH

Metso Corporation's press release on August 10, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. local time Metso will supply Heizkraftwerk Zwickau Süd GmbH & Co. KG with a modularised biomass power plant for combined heat and power production (CHP) in the municipality of Zwickau in Germany. The CHP plant will be delivered by the Metso-Wärtsilä joint venture MW Power. The delivery encompasses the ...

By Metso Corporation

Existing coal-fired power plants are upgrading to become more cost competitive and reduce emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases. They will account for more than half the 11,250 controls projects which are planned for completion next year at fossil-fired power plants. These are the findings in two McIlvaine publications. Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System and Chinese Utility ...

By The McIlvaine Company