Blatant Hypocracy
Will somebody please try to explain why it is admirable for the UK to hack down vegetation for fuelling power stations but when the Brazilians, Africans or Asians clear forests to plant food they are vigorously ostracised. 
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Re: Guide On Biomass Handling
Never quite understood the logic myself. ■
Re: Guide On Biomass Handling
Originally Posted by louispanjang
But it is the same with many things.
Look at the absolute waste of energy and resources over the "cash for clunkers". There are perfectly good cars where owners have been paid a "bonus" for them to be scrapped. They can't be resold to conserve resources, they MUST be scrapped under legislation.
It is only when such activity (as in this thread) was previously happening and there was a waste of a resource, that something should be done to try and recover anything from them. Even here, just because something is renewable does not mean it actually saves on energy. You need to account for all energy uses in the recovery process to establish whether it is actually viable. ■
Re: Guide On Biomass Handling
I don’t think currently available biomass for fuel are mainly derived from chopping forests down. Most of them are normally byproducts of food industries and bio-ethanol manufacturing.
i.e. DDGS (Distilled dried grains). Sunflower seed husks, Grape seed dust, olive seed grit, Rapeseed cake, Citrus pellets, rice hulls / husks etc etc. ■
Guide on Biomass Handling
Best Practice Guide on Biomass Handling and Biomass/Coal Co-handling
The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology has produced a report entitled Best Practice Guide on Biomass Handling and Biomass/Coal Co-handling. This was prepared for the Power Industry with funding and collaboration from the British Coal Utilisation Research Association and E-On UK Ltd by former PhD student, Dr N.S. Khan as part of his project with the aid of his supervisors, Prof M.S.A. Bradley and Dr R.J. Berry.
The report arose as a direct output of the project, which set out to look at identifying and resolving common problems of fuel handling in co-firing of coal and biomass, however the findings are equally applicable to handling of biomass alone. The study involved the active participation of E-On UK in collating experiences gained over the period from about 1999 to 2007, as well as extensive characterisation and handling trials at The Wolfson Centre. The resulting document is intended as a guide for engineers, maintenance personnel, managers and procurement executives with responsibility for obtaining and operating equipment for handling of biomass either alone or mixed with coal, in solid-fuel-fired power stations.
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