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Devon Renewable Energy Suppliers, Bramshaw heating and plumbing, give an overview on the benefits of having a biomass boiler, whcih provides renewable Energy.
As the cost of heating with natural gas and fuel oils continues to rise and there is increased pressure to find an alternative energy solution to fossil fuels, businesses are being pushed towards the use of biomass fuels as a means of generating heat.
This means that we have to find a way of sourcing a large quantity of economic
biomass fuel and also the required equipment to burn this fuel.
What is Biomass?
Biomass is the collective name for all non-fossil organic materials that have an intrinsic chemical energy content. Therefore this includes all land and water-based vegetation and trees, log wood or thinnings from forests, prunings from roadsides or parks, grasses and energy crops. In some countries residues from agriculture or food processing e.g. nutshells or olive pits, wood chips, recycled untreated wood or pelletising residues from wood processing. Also all waste biomass such as household rubbish, sewage, manure, forestry and agricultural residues, and certain types of industrial wastes. Through using these resources certain problems with waste disposal could provide a high quality fuel at the same time improving local economic turnover, as local wood suppliers of wood fuel would have an increase in income.
Biomass can be not only be used on a domestic scale but on an industrial scale too. The biomass is dried and shredded and is fed into the boiler where the gas is collected to produce electricity and heat. In order to use biomass as a heating fuel in a home you can install either a boiler or alternatively by using a wood burning stove, which can also be an attractive feature in any home. This boiler could potentially provide all of the water heating and central heating for a house. |
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Wood pellet which is a carbon neutral fuel solution has become one of the most economic biomass fuels the world can provide. Unlike fossil fuels, biomass fuels are a managed renewable resource.
Biomass fuels are carbon neutral, and would help to counter act the impacts of climate change, as they don't add any carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. This is becasuse the same amount of carbon dioxide is released during the burning process as is absorbed whilst growing, as long as plants continue to be replenished for biomass energy purposes.
Wood pellet is formed from good quality wood waste, allowing more complete and effective utilisation of the worlds forestry resource. One load of wood pellet contains the same amount of energy as fifteen equivalent loads of ordinary wood waste.
The wood waste is dried and pressed together in a pellet mill. The temperature produced in this process causes woods natural polymer, Lignin, to be released from the wood which binds the pellet without the need for additional binding agents, which produces a biomass fuel that is consistent, homogenous, easy to transport, store, dose and extremely clean burning. There is very little ash produced when burning wood pellet but the ash that is produced can be used as fertiliser so there is no wastage.
This article is courtesy of Bramshaw heating and plumbing Devon, to find out more click on the company logo.
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