Biomass

The most spread fuel from biomass category is wood. Wooden fuel can be in various forms – used as lump wood, wooden waste (e.g., in form of pellets or chippings) or it can be specially grown as power source plant, e.g., willow. However, there are also other sources, playing significant role in power balance of many countries. They include organic wastes from agricultural production, e.g., straw. Also bio-gas, obtained from municipal landfills, wastewater treatment plants or dung-water is form of biomass. From point of its future, biomass is considered for key recoverable power source on level of small land large technological units. Its current share on worldwide consumption of primary power sources is approximately 14%. However, for three quarters of Earth inhabitants, living mainly in developing countries, biomass is the most important fuel source. Its share on power consumption in these countries is 38% on average (in some countries it is up to 90%). It can be assumed that due to population growth and decrease of fossil fuel reserves, biomass importance will continue rising.


Biomass forms important power source also in several developed countries. In Sweden or neighboring Austria, its share on power consumption is approx. 15% (in our country it’s less than 1%). Sweden has plans for significantly higher utilization of biomass, which, in the future, should replace power, currently produced by nuclear power plants. In the USA, biomass share on primary sources is approx. 4%, which more-less equals to power amount, produced by nuclear power plants. Most biomass energy covers heat consumption; however, it significantly contributes also to electric power production. Today, power plants, firing biomass in the USA, produce overall electric output of more than 9000MW. According to several analyses there is no barrier, preventing growth of biomass share on power consumption in the USA to more than 20%. Biomass, grown on agricultural land, could replace power, produced by nuclear reactors without any problems, even without any consequences to prices of agricultural products. Moreover, biomass, grown for ethanol production, could replace more than 50% of imported crude oil.

Considering above-mentioned facts, our company started production of wooden briquettes and pellets. Actual state is described on the following pages.



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Wooden briquettes



Wooden pellets




Machines for production of wooden pellets

Miro M           created 2005 Feb – last modified 2005-02-08