Choosing the right BioMass fuel for your business

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Heating with wood has come a long way from the traditional logpile; modern automated biomass boilers run on either wood chips or wood pellets – which are automatically fed into the burner. Each of these forms of wood fuel has its pros and cons.

Understanding these helps you make the right choice of biomass system for your business.

Biomass Fuel: All About Wood Pellets

May 18, 2011
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Made from super compressed sawdust, wood pellets are a much more convenient and uniform biomass fuel. Their compactness and low moisture content mean that every tonne holds 4800kWh of energy in just over 1.5 cubic metres. A typical 20 foot container filled with wood pellets would hold 20 tonnes of wood pellets – a whopping [...]

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Wood Chip Biomass Fuels and Storage

May 18, 2011
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A factor with wood chips which needs careful consideration is your storage capacity. There are three important questions you will need to ask yourself before committing yourself to choosing this type of biofuel for your biomass heating system. How much space do you have for a store? How much energy will that store contain? and [...]

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Biomass Fuel: All about Wood Chips

May 16, 2011
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Yes, as the name implies, these are chips of wood! They are the cheapest form of biomass fuel suitable for large-scale automation.

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Wood Chips vs Wood Pellets – What’s the cost?

May 5, 2011
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On the face of it, looking at price per tonne, wood chips appear to win hands down. A tonne of wood chip at 30% moisture content will set you back £80-£90, while a tonne of wood pellets will be around £195 per tonne. However, a tonne of wood pellets contains more energy than a tonne [...]

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An introduction to biomass heating for business

May 1, 2011
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The carbon emissions resulting from businesses are increasingly targeted by Government policy makers. Using energy more efficiently is one aspect of carbon reduction but using a carbon neutral fuel can see your emission levels plummet. Of all the renewable technologies it is biomass which gives the biggest reduction in carbon emissions.  Converting from gas to [...]

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