Wood Chips For Power Plants

The reformer is the heart of the biomass power plant.

Wood chips for power plants. Nova scotia has a 2 5 mw wood chip burning system that provides power to a textile factory as well as systems that provide power to a poultry processing plant two hospitals and an agricultural college. In new england adding wood chip power plants which typically get much of their wood by clear cutting would be a 100 year save the world solution. Where most electricity carbon capture projects have focused on coal fired power the drax project is the first to capture carbon dioxide co from a plant purely burning wood chips or. The innovative structure of the reformer offers high fuel flexibility.

It produces almost tar less wood gas from biomass in a controlled process which works on the downdraft principle. The contract s new avoided cost rate dropped 20 but the big thing is we still have a contract with them said neil taratuta plant manager at the company s lincoln plant. The wood chips and the wood gas moves in the same direction. The 70m northern wood power project for public service of new hampshire psnh will burn more than 400 000t of wood annually most of which is being sourced locally.

Prince edward island pei has the most wood chip plants due to high electricity rates and subsidies from the federal government. A 50mw boiler fueled by burning wood chips at the schiller station in portsmouth has replaced a similarly sized coal boiler. In addition to policy regulation project finance technology and plant management the publication maintains a core editorial focus on biomass logistics.