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Largest pelletsship in Rotterdamso farIn early May the so far largest pel-

let vessel arrived to Rotter-

dam port. It was the Federal Rhi-

ne that transported 27 000 tonnes of

pellets from Fulghum Fibre Fuels in

Halifax, Canada to E.B.S. terminal in

Rotterdam. The vessel will be unloa-

ded in three days using the large cra-

ne shown in the background. The cra-

ne lifts around ten tonnes of pellets at

a time and pass it to a conveyor belt

to be further transported to the silo.

The pellets will be later delivered to the

Dutch power company Essent.

page 6

New pelletplant in HookYet another pellet plant is

built in south of Sweden.This one produces around27 000 tonnes a year from dryshavings

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The Slovakian companyEnereticke Strojarne, a.s

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www.bioenergyinternational.comClimate

An added difficul-ty is that in thesame time the

global energy consump-tion is expected to bemore than doubled.

The requirements ofenergy free of CO2 emis-sions have therefore togrow to levels several ti-mes the present globaltotal fossil fuel use.

Energy candidates ca-pable of supplying largeamounts of CO2 emissi-on free energy, includessolar, wind energy, bio-mass, nuclear fission,

fusion, and fossil fuelswith carbon capture andsequestration.

A possible wayLet us begin with, a fewstatements:

1. Biomass for energyis a low cost option.

The introduction ofcarbon taxes or a capand trade system makesbioenergy attractive inthe near term. For in-stance, the introductionof a the Swedish carbontax system led to a rapidchange from oil to bio-

energy in district hea-ting.

2. If advanced energytechnologies are in pla-ce, they will most likelycost substantially morethan bioenergy

3. Biomass use in theglobal energy systemmay be as large as - orlarger than - the presenttotal food and forest sec-tors combined, but willnevertheless onlyamount to a share of therequirement for carbonfree energy.

4. Initially the expan-

sion will most likely bebased on increased utili-zation of residue flowsin agriculture and fores-try, but will in the long-er term require large sca-le energy crop produc-tion and/or forest stem-wood extraction. (Figu-re 1).

Multifunctional cropWe define multi-functio-nal bioenergy systems assystems that, besidesproducing biomass forfossil fuel substitution,also provide additionalenvironmental services.One example is willowproduction for phytex-traction of cadmium incropland soils.

About 15 000 hecta-res are used for Salixproduction in Swedentoday. We estimate thatabout 50 000 hectarescould be dedicated tomulti-functional bio-mass production, wherethe estimated economicvalue of the associatedenvironmental servicesexceeds the total cost ofSalix production. Thereare more than 100 000hectares where biomasscan be grown and at the

Bioenergy for climatestabilizationAn upper limit on the increase in the global annual average surface

temperature set at or round 2oC above pre-industrial temperature le-

vels will require that total global CO2 emissions by the year 2100 would

have to drop to around 2 Gton C per year. Assuming a global popula-

tion of 10 billion people the global average per capita emissions would

then have to drop to about 0.2 ton C per capita and year by 2100.

This is below the level that prevails in India today. Bioenergy can play

an important role in the energy system transformation, explains Gö-

ran Berndes and colleagues, and presents an attractive strategy.

Figure 2, The practical potential for multifunctional bioenergysystems in Sweden, and an illustration of the estimated value ofthe additional environmental services provided, as they relateto the cost of Salix production (euro/MWh). Examples of environmental services that can be provided arereduced nutrient leaching and soil erosion, carbon accumula-tion in soils and standing biomass, cadmium removal fromagricultural land, and improved treatment efficiency ofpolluted waste waters.

Figure 1, Where and how should we establish bioenergy plantations? The sizeof the global energy sector implies that several hundred million hectares ofland may become dedicated to bioenergy plantations in a future world wherebiomass provides a substantial share of the global primary energy supply. Thiswill be a substantive addition to the 1500 million hectares used for cropproduction today. A key question will be how this can be done acceptablyfrom a social and environmental point of view. A comparison of the currentenergy sector with the agriculture and forestry sectors are provided at the leftof the figure (”Edible crops” include cereal grain, starchy root tubers, sugarcrop stems and roots, oil crop products and various nuts, pulses, vegetablesand fruits). The land area (in million hectares) of some continents and regionsare also given.

same time provide addi-tional environmentalservices that have a va-lue higher than, orroughly equal to, thebiomass productioncost. (See Figure 2).

A price must be puton environmental

serviceIf the additional envi-ronmetal services arepayed for additional re-venues will be linked tothe biomass productionsystems, and therebydramatically improvethe competitiveness ofthe produced biomasson the energy market.

The bioenergycontribution toglobal climate

The case of multifunc-tional Salix productionin Sweden point to apath for expanded use ofbiomass for energy thatshould be systematicallyexplored in both indu-strialized and develo-ping countries.

In some cases, actorscan be identified that arewilling to pay for a spe-cific environmental ser-vice, e.g the establish-ment of willow vegeta-tion filters for hte treat-ment of nutrient-richmunicipal wastewater.

References:

In other situations, in-formation campaignsand innovative govern-mental measures thatcredits the biomass pro-ducer may be required inorder to stimulate the es-tablishment of multi-functional bioenergysystems.

The economics ofland use will be differentin a world where carbonemissions has a price.

The cost of produc-tion inputs such as nitro-gen fertilizers and dieselwill increase, but -poten-tially much more impor-tant- the food and fores-try sectors will also haveto face increasing dem-and from the energy sec-tor.

This means that thereis a risk for bioenergy vsfood competition, butalso that the value offood and bioenergy willincrease.

Göran Berndes*, Chris-tian Azar, Pål BörjessonDept. of Physical Re-source Theory, Chal-mers University of Tech-nology/Göteborg Uni-versity, Environmentaland Energy Systems Stu-dies, Dept. of Technolo-gy and Society, LundUniversity*Corresponding author


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On the April 3rdthe terminal ofEuropean Bulk

Services (E.B.S.) wasproud to welcome thelargest vessel carryingwood pellets to Rotter-dam: the MV ”FederalRhine", fully loadedwith 27,500 tonnes ofwood pellets. Less thantwo weeks before thevessel was loaded inHalifax on the EastCoast of the NorthAmerican continent byone of the most establis-hed producers of woodpellets: Fulghum FibreFuels.

All the pellets weredischarged by E.B.S. -part of the cargo wastaken into storage byE.B.S. and part of thecargo was reloaded di-rectly into receiving ves-sels that were sent by theend-customer(s).

Producers fromNorth America

The East coast of theNorth American conti-nent is gradually gettingmore important as pro-ducing area for the Eu-ropean markets. TheWest coast producerswere already well posi-tioned and are also

Pellets: booin Rotterdam

ment will be taken intostorage by E.B.S. andpart of the cargo will bedirectly transshipped tothe end customer(s) inEurope.

– If we are not mista-ken, these monthlyquantities will soon bedoubled or tripled.

Booming, in thenegative sense.

Lastly, the bad news. In

the beginning of March,E.B.S. experienced amajor fire in one of thestorage silo's for woodand bark pellets.

The fire was causedby self incineration.E.B.S. is still investiga-ting the cause of the selfincineration process.The fire was quicklybrought under control,but nevertheless a largepart of the stored cargo

was seriously damaged.The silo is a total loss. Intotal the silo contained30 000 m3 of pellets.The pellets are destroyedas pellets but still thereare a lot of heating con-tent in the remainingthat will be used as a lo-wer value fuel.

Although still investi-gating the precise cause,E.B.S. has put an invest-ment program in place,

known to keep expan-ding their businesstowards Europe.

– It is good to see that,despite the enormouslyhigh level of the oceanfreight costs, shippersstill seem to succeed inshipping wood pelletsacross the oceans. It willbe interesting to seewhether more vessels ofsimilar or even largersize will follow, saysRoland Reesinck.

Shipment of woodpellets fromSouth

AfricaAnother round of excel-lent news: the Rotter-dam terminal E.B.S. willwitness the arrival of thefirst South African woodpellets in the beginningof May. The shippingcompany Island ViewShipping (I.V.S.) willbring approximately5000 tonnes of woodpellets from a port inSouth Africa to Rotter-dam with their regular,high frequency bulkshipping service. Fromthen on, similar ship-ments by I.V.S. will ar-rive on a monthly basis.As with the North Ame-rican / Canadian woodpellets, part of the ship-

There is good and

bad news from the

port of Rotterdam,

focal point for the

European imports of

biomass pellets. Bio-

energy International

visited European

Bulk Service (E.B.S)

and talked with Roe-

land Reesinck.

In short the good new

is that, the largest

ever, pellet vessel has

just arrived to Rotter-

dam completely filled

with 27 000 tonnes of

pellets from Fulghum

Fibre Fuels. The car-

go will be used later

in the Dutch utility Es-

sent.

The bad new is that

E.B.S had a fire in

one of its largest silo

and that silo was

completely destroy-

ed. The good part of

the bad news is that

now E.B.S installs

several independent

indicating systems to

prevent unwanted ig-

nition of the fuels.

Let’s start with the

good news:

Roeland Reesinck,European Bulk ServiceE.B.S. Göran Westerlund, Fulghum Fibre Fuels and

Roeland Reesinck

Roland Reesinck points at the location of theE.B.S dry bulk terminal in the huge Rotterdamharbour.


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two vessel's holes filledwith pellets. We do havefloating cranes but oftenthe vessels have theirown equipment. In suchcases the cargo canchange the vessels veryfast and smoothly andcan be furthered trans-ported to its final desti-nation. It happens alsothat immersion is to lar-ge and vessel cannot getinside the port; thosekinds of vessels are tra-ditionally called lighters.The large lighters areunloaded to coastersand barges. Coasters aresmaller ships that travelto England or Denmark.Bargers are often usedfor transport on the riv-ers up to the large indu-strial areas in Holland,Belgium, Germany,

France and even toSwitzerland. There arepossibilities go by boatthrough the channelsand river systems all theway to the Black Sea.

E.B.S handled10 000 000 tonnes

The amount of commo-dity handled by E.B.S.exceeds 10 000 000 ton-nes of cargo, single car-go no double counting.

Some others in the bu-siness count twice, onewhen it is unloaded forstorage and one when itis uploaded again fromstorage to a vessel.

250 people work inthe company, for 24hours 6 days a week inthree shifts. There is atrend towards more spe-cialised skills and mach-ines. Entrepreneurs arenowadays also more of-ten hired.

Lennart Ljungblom

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which will prevent futu-re fires in the silo's andsheds.

– To prevent accidentslike this in the futureE.B.S. has installed high-ly sophisticated perma-nent temperature andgas monitoring equip-ment, says RoelandReesinck.

Further, on demandfrom the authorities,also a high capacity ven-

tilation system is instal-led in the silos that areused for pellets storage.This system ventilateright through (instead ofjust around) the cargo.Also the temperaturemonitoring systems areplaced inside the storedquantities, not only theoutside.

– The lesson we lear-ned is very simple: inorder to remain the lar-

gest European hub forthe storage and trans-shipment of biomasspellets, we needed to be-come the safest one aswell. We think we mana-ged, ends RoelandReesinck - EuropeanBulk Services (E.B.S.)B.V.

Two terminalsE.B.S. is the companywith long traditions. It is

the result of mergingtwo older companies inthe business that laterbought a third one.E.B.S. is running twoterminals in the hugeport of Rotterdam.

One, the agriculturalterminal, is dealing withtrade of grains and ani-mal feed. This is organi-sed in such way thatagricultural businesscould be totally separa-

ted from the rest thathandles all kinds ofcommodities; solid fuel -mainly coal but nowalso an increasingamount of pellets andother products like me-tal scrap etc.

– I will emphasis that,storing is not our busi-ness, most important isemptying and reloadingvessels from large tosmaller vessels.

– The best is to direct-ly load another ship.

– But you always needsome storage, a strategybuffer or a peak storage.For example this hugeload of pellets 27 500tonnes that has just arri-ved is too large for mostof the power station totake care of it directly.

Different loadsThe regular way for ves-sels of this size is havingdifferent loads. One ortwo of the holes are fil-led with pellets and therest with other material.In the coal industry uns-old cargoes are oftencommon too, where thetrader is taking a riskand hoping for betterpayment. That will pro-bably grow in the pelletbusiness soon.

– Our strong point isstorage directly at thewaterside and thereforwe can very rapidly un-load and load differentkind of ships.

A common way is alsoto unload a large vesseloutside the harbour. Forinstance pellets that aredelivered from the Ame-rican west cost by JohnSwan from Pacific Bio-energy Corporation, dooften arrive with one or

In front was the large burned down silo withpellets located.



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KurzemesGranulas investto build pelletsfactory inves-ting EUR4m

Kurzemes Granu-las LTD of Vent-

spils plans to open apellets plant with anannual capacity of60,000 tonnes in Au-tumn 2004.

Kurzemes Granulas(KG) will build theplant of wood chipand other pellets in theterritory of the Vent-spils port.

KG will export theproduction to Swe-den, Denmark, the UKthrough the Ventspilsport, and also to sell itin Latvia. KG will an-nually use about400,000 - 480,000 m3

of sawdust, woodchip and bark as asource material. Thecompany will employabout 25 people. Theboard chairman of thecompany ViestursGrinbergs told to DB,that it is planned to in-vest EUR4m of creditresources in the pro-ject. One of the mem-bers of the LTD is for-est exploitation com-pany Kurekss, provi-ding source materials.Another shareholderof KG, Baltijas Bioen-ergijas grupa - openeda similar plant (with acapacity of 110,000 -120,000 t) GaujasGranulas in Mangals-ala in September lastyear.

There are similarplants in other placesin Latvia as well: SBELatvia LTD in Talsi re-gion, Nelss Aiz-kraukles Kokzagetava(sawmill) in Aizkraukle,Granulu Serviss in Ie-cava, VidzemesGranulas in Cesvaine,and others.Source: BBN - DBDienas Bizness

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www.bioenergyinternational.comFuel producersWisswood AB and Vida Energi AB makes

Pellets from shavingsOne of the most

recently builtpellets plant in

Sweden is the Wisswoodowned plant in the smallvillage of Hook in Små-land, nearby Jönköpingin the south of Sweden.

This plant producesduring the full year ope-ration 27 000 tonnesand has so far only onepress but the room andthe installed surrondingequipment is suitable fortwo presses.

They have choosennot to install a dryer.The reason is that theraw material shavingsare delivered by 7 saw-mills, owned by the mot-her company Vidagro-up, the largest privateowned sawmill compa-ny in Sweden.

Wisswood does notonly make pellets, theirmain income are gainedby selling pressed balesof fine quality shavingsto stables for the use inhorse boxes.

They guarantee abso-lutely dust free shavingsfor the animals and thisis possible due to the in-stalation of advancedpneumatic cleaning sys-tem shown in the phototo the right.

The separeted dust isused as one of the rawmaterial streams for theSprout Matador pelletpress together with freshmilled shavings.

All the pellets produ-

ced are put into 16 kgbags using a fully auto-matic system deliveredby Danish company Fis-ker. Fisker have also de-livered the baling mashi-nery.

Half of the producedpellets are bought byStatoil. They are mostactive in the pellets busi-ness and marketing pel-lets from around 5 diffe-rent production plants.The rest of the pelletsare sold locally or expor-ted to Denmark.

Lars Gunnar Wiss half owner of the Wisswoodplant. Producer of bales of shavings for horsestables and pellets for private customers.

Lars Göran Harrysson, CEOof Vida Energi AB, thecompany in the Vidagroupresponsible for the energybusiness. Marketing theirpellets, as well as wood fuelsfrom sawmills and alsoforestry fuels of different kinddirectly from the forests.

The baggingsystem from

FiskerThe bags are filledwith 16 kg of pelletsand transported tothe machine that passthem to pallets forfurther transport.

Everything is fullyautomatic and theoperator must onlycheck if there isenough plastic in themachine and also atthe end take care ofthe pallets with pel-lets. Three pallets arehandled at the sametime by the truck.

Above: Incoming raw material. All rawmaterial is handled by the specialised ITcompany - SDC. The computers handles allthe registration of the material movementsfrom the forest all the way to the user.Below: The advanced pneumatic dustcleaning system

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Attached to thebig exhibitionMondial Bio-

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www.bioenergyinternational.com ForestryBundling in new areas

Timberjack has in-troduced thebundling met-

hod in several countries.The bundling has had avery rapid increase inFinland, where already30 systems are in thecommercial use. Most ofthe large biomass plantsin Finland have startedto use the bundling met-hod. However, also thesmall and medium sizedpower plants are nowusing the bundled mate-rial. In 2004 there willbe more than 1 250 000bundles made in Fin-land, corresponding toapproximately 1.25TWh of energy.

In addition to Finlandthe bundlers have beendelivered to Italy, Swe-den, Spain, Switzerland,

USA. The latest deliveryis to Czech Republic.During 2003 and 2004Timberjack has been tes-ting together with theco-operation partnersthe bundling methodquite a lot in Hungary,Austria and Switzerland.

Projects in easternEurope

It looks like that in theEast European countriesthe large scale utilisationof forest bioenergy willbe based on the bund-ling technology. Thereare many projects goingon and the experiencesin Finland have beenanalysed extensively.Many of the East Euro-pean countries havegood biomass resources,and because of the lack

of existing infrastructu-re and recently made in-vestments they can jumpright into the latest tech-nology.

Two types of bund-lers

There are currently twotypes of bundlers produ-ced. Traditionally thebundlers are built on theforwarder carrier (fig.2). There are more than30 of these units in ope-ration. The forwarderbased machine is perfectfor rough terrain appli-cations and for the largesites. It is the most pro-ductive incorporationwith the cut-to-lengthlogging system.

The other type of abundler is the truck ba-sed machine (fig. 3). Thetruck based bundler ismeant to be used on themountain areas and inapplications where theoperation sites are faraway from each othersor fairly small. The

truck can start the bund-ling operation rightaway when arrived tothe site. The truck basedbundler work well to-gether with the full-treelogging system.

Testing in HungaryIn January-February2004, an extensive testcampaign was perfor-med in South-West ofHungary. During thesetests various types ofmaterial and conditionswere experimented.

If the normal residualmaterial is left on theground it starts to com-post right away, butwhen bundled the reac-tion stops and the mate-rial is safely stored forthe future use. Bundlingprovides a new methodto plan the whole bio-mass supply system.

OakbundlingOne of the most peculi-ar testes performed wasthe bundling of oakbark. Even this materialcould be bundled. Theproductivity of themachine and the qualityof the material was care-fully analyzed by the re-search organisations.

The tests in Hungarywill be continued duringthe summer-autumn2004. So far the testshave shown the feasibi-lity of the bundling inHungarian conditions.Now at the current sta-ge the material will betested in the powerplants.

Existing machineryis a barrier

In some of the countries,the existing machinery ispreventing the develop-ment. For example inSweden, a lot of invest-ment was done in thepast into the forest chip-ping technology andthat is mainly hinderingthe penetration of thebundling technology.

On the contrary, inFinland there was not

that much invested intothe forest chipping tech-nology and the new sys-tems can now be buildfrom the scratch. Thishas resulted a large in-crease of biomass utili-zation and it has beenthe major driving forcefor the increase of thebundling technology.

The bundling techno-logy is gaining populari-ty also in the East Euro-pean countries, becauseit provides a new way toutilize the bioenergy re-sources. These countriesdon ’t have significantlylarge biomass utilisationlevel for energy and cannow jump right in to thestate-of-the-art-techno-logy in renewable powergeneration by utilisingthe bundling.

This technology hasbeen experimented nowin Finland in a large sca-le and the results can beused for the develop-ment in other countriestoo. The latest deliveryof the bundler to CzechRepublic is a good ex-ample of this develop-ment happening. Thereare many projects goingon in East Europeancountries. It might resultthe similar gain as inFinland.

New way of thinkingOne might think thatbundling is only onetechnology among theothers, but in fact, it ismuch more. It is truethat bundling is only oneof the technologies, butin turn it creates newway of thinking. Itforms kind of a newplatform or basis for thesustainable utilisation ofthe renewable forest en-ergy. It is more than justa method to collect theforest residuals. It alsoprovides an economicaltechnology to utilize therenewable energy sustai-nable way.

Arto Timperi,Timberjack Energy

Technology

REGBIE- an EUproject withinbiomass intro-duction

Within the Altenerprogram there

is project for marke-ting of biomass overEurope regardingsmall scale to middlesized to 500 kW. De-velopment of regionalstrategies and marketsupport is the base.Project manager isTarget in Hannover.Partners comes fromGermany, Italy, Aus-tria, Lithuania, Polandand Sweden

More information onwww.ben-online.de [email protected]

Bioenergy Små-land/Expo Väx-jö.

Is a project for bio-mass information

and business fromSweden to the inter-national arena.

The Swedish EnergyAgency has agreed tosupport the internatio-nal development ofthe Energy Cluster ofSmåland, includingmanufacturers of bio-energy equipment asJärnforsen EnergiSystem, Hotab, Janfi-re, R&D as Universityof Växjö and SP, tech-nical consultants asFLK AB, ÅF-Energi oMiljö AB. Linked to theproject as market de-velopment consultantfor the UK market isWindborne Internatio-nal. Several countrieshave been targetedmarket developmentactivities in UK, Pol-and, Latvia, Estonia,Ukraine, Brazil, Chileand Japan. For moreinformation concer-ning projects contactwww.energikontor-so.com

Resent tests and lack of previous established

biomass production technology are reasons

why bundling technology is probably going

to grow in eastern Europe.

The material is transported to theroadside mainly by the skidders and the

truck bundled the material right fromthe road

fig.2

Fig.3


www.bioenergyinternational.comForestry

Chipset(r) is acombined har-vester, chipper

and forwarder, whichperforms several func-tions in the productionof woodfuel chips.

The new version hasseveral features whichimprove productivity,reliability, driver com-fort and overall opera-ting economy.

The second genera-tion of chip harvester -Logset 3C Chipset(r) hasbeen developed as a re-sult of co-operation bet-ween Ljungströms Svets& Smide Ab (Sweden)and Oy Logset AB (Fin-land).

Fells small treesThe outer dimensions ofthe machine are equal tothose of a medium-sizedforwarder and its totalweight is neither signifi-cantly higher.

The chipharvesterfells small trees or picksup brush and tops from

the ground, feeds thetrees into a front-moun-ted drumchipper, fromwhere the chips are con-veyed into a rear-moun-ted 17 m3 container. Thecontents of the full con-tainer are side-tippedinto a trailer or contai-ner at the roadside orlanding site.

Chipping capacityThe front-mounteddrumchipper has a maxchipping capacity of 70m3/h. The chipper devi-ce is side-turning, 90o toboth sides, and therefo-re, it is possible to feedtrees directly to the chip-per from both sides ofthe strip road withoutturning the machine. Tofacilitate the reverse dri-ving Chipset(r) is equip-ped with a video camerainstalled at the back ofcontainer.

The first generationThe Chipset develop-ment work started al-

ready 1991, when thefirst prototype was built.Three years later the firstgeneration of Chipsetwas introduced andsome ten machines werebuilt. The machineshave since then workedin Sweden and Finlandwith some machines al-ready exceeding 15 000working hours.

New improvementsThe new second genera-tion machines featuresthe following improve-ments compared to ear-lier Chipset machines:

New heavier chippingdrum with higher speedfor increased productionand stronger mountingsfor increased safety, newdiesel engine with 20percent higher outputand better fuel economy,improved layout for ea-sier daily maintenanceand faster service inter-ventions, more shieldsfor less contaminationof internal compart-

Second generation ofchip harvester

Technical dataWidth 2 700 mmWeight unloaded 18 000 kgTractive effort 150 kNPower at 1800 rpm 271 kWCrane outreach 8,3 mMax tree diameter 350 mm

ments, new strongerwheel motors with 25percent higher tractiveeffort, new state-of -the-art Logset Vision cabinwith excellent visibilityand operator comfort,IQAN integrated mach-ine control system foreasy handling and pre-venting overloading ofthe machine capacity.

Chipset(r) is manufac-tured by Ljungströms inLidköping, Sweden.Logset participates inthe project by supplyingthe main parts for thecarrier, such as cabin,bogies, wheel motorsand main hydrauliccomponents. Both com-panies are sharing the

responsibility for marke-ting and servicing,Ljungströms in Swedenand Logset on interna-tional markets.

The chip harvester is asolution for industrialproduction of wood fuelchip. Today loggingcontractors are re-sponsible for woodsupply for the forest in-dustry and likewisechipharvester contrac-tors will be responsiblefor continuous competi-tive supply of fuel chip.

The Logset 3CChipset(r) is thecontractor’s tool, onwhich profitable fuelchip production will bebased.

Lukasz ZyskLogset Oy

Forest machineswith increasedpower

In the past, tractorsin the Nordiccountries were

used as forest machi-nes mainly during thelong winter season af-ter the fall harvest.

Times have chan-ged, however, and to-day there is an increa-sing demand for in-creased power. Valtra,also known as Valmet,has met this demandby developing its Agri-Forest products.For professional forestharvesting, Valtra hasalso developed the FLine of tractors.

The base for theseproducts is Valtra’sagricultural tractor,making them compe-titive in terms of bothprice and versatility.Agri-Forest productscan be utilized as ea-sily in the forest as onthe field. LightweightValtras can generallybe used in the foresteven in the summerti-me without damagingthe roots of trees.

Valtra’s harvester-tractor combinationalso allows new andmore efficient workingmethods. For ex-ample, the tractor canbe used to transportloads directly to thesawmill, as it is capa-ble of travelling safelyand comfortably atspeeds of up to 40km/h.

In addition, there isno need for expensiveand difficult trailertransportation whentransferring the harv-ester from one area toanother.

Valtra manufactu-red more than 19 000units in 2003.


www.bioenergyinternational.com National markets

In March 2004, aninternational con-sortium was selected

to supply consulting ser-vices for implementationof a United Nations De-velopment Programme /Global Environment Fa-cility (UNDP/GEF) fun-ded bioenergy project inBelarus.

Three companiesThe consortium includesthree companies: BTGBiomass TechnologyGroup BV (The Nether-lands), LEV LandesEn-ergieVerein Steiermark

(Austria) and Eco Ltd.(United Kingdom).

The consortium mem-bers, that have prior ex-perience working to-gether in a bioenergyproject in Slovenia, willcollaborate with localorganisations in Belarus,including companiesand municipalities. For-mal start of the project isenvisaged in May 2004.

Increased capacityThe project will increasethe capacity of the go-vernment to supportbiomass energy projects

and the capacity ofcustomers to financeand implement them. Itwill address the princi-pal barriers to the imple-mentation of wood andwood-waste boilers th-rough a process of bar-rier removal involvingdemand and supply sidedemonstration, andplanning for replicationthrough awareness rai-sing, development of de-cision-making tools, po-licy assessment, and thedevelopment of an in-vestment pipeline.

DemonstrationsDemand and supply sidedemonstrations consti-tute an important ele-ment of the project. Onthe demand side, de-monstrations are envisa-ged at five sites, focusingon the use of wood as aviable, cost-effective and

modern alternative tofossil fuels. A supply sidedemonstration is plan-ned at a wood harve-sting company. At thiscompany a venture willbe set-up to collect andprocess wood residuesleftin the forest duringharvesting.

Successful implemen-tation of the project isexpected to put in placekey elements for the de-velopment of a well-structured system forwood-fuel supply, andenhance the use of bio-mass-fuelled boilers inBelarus, responding toan increasing demandfor biomass heating.

Fuel importsBelarus is highly depen-dent on fuel imports,mainly natural gas fromRussia. Domestic re-sources are limited, and,apart from small depo-sits of natural gas, oiland peat, the most im-portant natural resourceis the forests, which co-ver 36% of the country.Power stations in Bela-rus are mainly (90%) fi-red with natural gas,with oil-fired plants ac-counting for 10% andhydropower plants just0.1%. Approximately25% of the electricitydemand is met through-imports from Russia andLithuania.

Heating and hot wa-ter is predominantlysupplied through districtheating (DH) systems,fed from large combinedheat and power or heat-only systems operatedby the state energy com-pany ”Belenergo”, orfrom smaller heat-onlyboilers operated by theMinistry of CommunalServices. Additionallythere are about 10,000boiler houses below10MWth capacity underthe ownership of otherMinistries, state and pri-

vate industrial enterpri-ses, as well as schools,hospitals and sanatori-ums.

In the Soviet era Bela-rus was an importantcentre for the processingof wood, most of whichcame from Russia. Afterindependence, the Bela-rus wood-processingsector became more self-sufficient, and nowmainly makes use of itsown forests. As a resultof the catastrophe inChernobyl (Ukraine) on26 April 1986, econo-mic activity on 36,000hectares of forests wasbanned due to the highdegree of contamina-tion, but this representsless than 1% of the totalforest cover.

The Government ofBelarus encourages thewider utilisation of rene-wable energy, and it par-ticularly wishes to in-crease the use of woodwaste as fuel. Belarus isideally suited to the app-lication of bio-energydue to the large area ofproductive industrialforest, flat landscape,well-developed powerdistribution and districtheating infrastructure,and technically compe-tent society.

Contact detailsMore information onthe project can be obtai-ned from the Program-me Management Unit inBelarus or from consor-tium leader BTG. Con-tact details:

ProgrammeManagement Unit:

Vladimir Voitekhovitc,[email protected]. byInternational Consorti-

um : John Vos,[email protected]

Developing biomassmarket in Belarus

IN BAGS WOOD PELLETS

AUTOMATIC — MOST ECONOMIC SOLUTION

Fisker Skanderborg A/S www.fisker.as tel +45 87 93 82 22

Fisker is supplying packing ma-

chines as well as complete packaging

lines.

The machines are based on the well

known FFS concept; the bags are

Formed from a reel of flat film, Filled

and Sealed at the same time in the

machine.

PE-film from reel is by far the most

economical solution to bag pellets.

Pellets in bags ensure a simple logis-

tic. The pallets can be stored outside,

and product can be handled in an

easy way. References (Pellets):

Bioenergi Luleå AB

Svensk Brikett Energi AB

Bioenergi Skandinavien AB

Mebio

Såbi AB

BioNorr AB

Wisswood AB

Forssjö Bruk AB

Ve-gruppen A/S

The Biomass Energy for Heating and Hot

Water Supply in Belarus project (BYE/03/G31)

aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of

Belarus by removing the barriers to economi-

cally feasible wood utilisation for municipal

heat and hot water supply.

By John Vos, BTG

Pellets investmentsin Latvia

Pellets industry isgrowing fast in

Latvia.187,000 tonnes of

pellets were exportedin eleven months of2003, which is 71.5percent more thanduring the whole of2002, profit from theoperation exceedingthat of 2002 by 209.8percent

A member of theboard of the LatvianBiomass association,Zigmunds Zajanckov-skis, comments, thatthe fast growth is dueto the high demand forthe production and in-crease of prices.

According to datafrom the Latvian Bio-mass association, themajor player in pelletsmarket in Latvia isBaltijas BioenergijasGrupa, uniting threeplants: Gaujas Granu-las, Granulu Servissand Vidzemes Granu-las. Gaujas Granulas,opened just last year,with a capacity of60,000 tonnes a year,is the biggest by out-put. It plans to doubleit’s capacity. JanisDucmanis - Commer-cial Director of BalticBio-Energetic Group -shareholder of GaujaGranules Ltd - told toDB that LVL3m wereinvested in developingof the factory.

Ducmanis pointedout that the factoryplans to double thecapacity reaching 120000 tonnes, thus be-coming the largestfactory in Latvia in it’sfield. The manufactu-red production will beexported to WesternEuropean countriesand Scandinavia.Source: BBN - DBDienas Bizness


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Most impressiveintegrated boilers

for pellets

Bioenergy In-

t e r n a t i o n a l

presents an

overwiev of the market

of companies/pro-

ducts that deliveres

oil- and gasreplace-

ment to the small hou-

se owners in Europe.

However this pre-

sentation has not the

ambition to be com-

plete - there are many

companies active and

new products hits the

market almost every

month. To stay in tune

with the growth of the

market - please visit

our website www.bio-

energyinternational.-

com

We have divided the

presentation into two

parts, regarding the

two different types of

products in the mar-

ket.

In central Europe the

integrated pellets boi-

ler dominates. In the

Nordic countries the

burner, like the normal

oilburner dominates.

There is also a sub-

stantial difference in

price level on these

two markets.

The result is a good

situation for the buyer

who can choose the

right product for his or

hers wallet and ambi-

tion.

Guntamaticwww.guntamatic.com

Guntamatic Heiztechnik GmbH is a well established Austrian develo-per and producer of equipment for wood, chips and pellets heating.They produce around 5 000 boilers a year, with 80 employees.

Their main product for the pellets market is their Biostar, an integrated pellets-boiler with high performance, 88 91 percent boiler- efficiency, and long inter-valls between cleaning.

Frölingwww.froeling.at

The company Fröling is one of the leaders inchips and pellets heating. Their basic mo-del for pellets heating is Pelletherm P2.

The shell-burner has been perfected by Fröling andis ideal for operation with pellets.

Alongside excellent combustion figures and opti-mum controls, the ash is removed without anymechanical assistance.

The solution for pellet heating systems.The ash from the shell-burner falls in the hot clad ashchamber underneath, where any ash particles notcompletely incinerated are burnt out completely. Theash from the combustion chamber is compressedtogether with the cleaning residues from the heat ex-changer by means of an ash removal worm screwand transported to an outside ash container onwheels.

Modular controlsThe pioneering Lambdatronic controller generationputs Fröling more than one step ahead of its time.Alongside perfect combustion controls up to andincluding Lambda technology, it is possible to prov-ide optimum controls for up to 4 heating circuits,various storage systems or for instance a solar plant.A further addition is a digital room operating unitand the possibility of PC visualisation or remotemaintenance via telephone modem. Thanks to themodular concept, the system can be expanded fromthe necessary basic version step by step.

Automatic - clean - efficientThe vertical tube heat exchanger with built-in turbu-lators ensures excellent heat transmission. Alongsi-de the excellent self-cleaning that results from thevertical position, automatic cleaning is also providedby the motion of the turbulators via a motor drive.

Ökofenwww.oekofen.at

This is a youngpellets companyfrom Austria.

This mini modell of theirintegrated boilers givesonly 2-8 kW. Their fourother models covers upto 32 kW.

An interesting modellis the one with conden-sing of flue gases with anefficiency above 100percent!



Pellets

Scand-Pellet

Sahlins

EcoTecwww.ecotec.net

EcoTec pellets burners come in arange of different sizes, from 14

kW up to 300 kW and are adaptableto most boilers on the market. Deal-ers in several countries. EcoTec pel-lets burners can be mounted on allmost eve-ry existing boiler. The patented underfeedingprinciple of EcoTec, forces all fuel to pass th-rough the burning zone. This brings even thesmallest particles through the burning zoneand they are completely combusted beforeleaving the burning cup in form of ashes. AnEcoTec burner requires a minimum of main-tenance, boiler can be equiped with automa-ticly ash removal. Handles many types andsizes of pellets. One of the most sold burnersin the world.

Janfirewww.janfire.com

The company nameis SBS Swedish bio-

burner system. It manu-factures burners fromthe smallest up to 600kW for industries. Thecompany has producedpellets burners for 20years. Their burner arefriendly, one-button-manouvering, burner and customised boiler forconvenient home heating with a minimum of ma-nual interaction. Burner can be attached to existingboiler or delivered together with Janfires customi-sed boiler. Can be supplied with “week-store” (seepicture) for pellets or bulk tank.

Home heating

Baxi Bonus 30w w w @ b a x i . c o m(se,dk)

Baxi is one of Eu-opes largest boi-

ler producers. Themother company isbased in the U.K.Wood and pellets boi-lers are manufacturedin Denmark. Theyhave also one integra-ted pellets boiler (Mul-tiheat) and a pellets-burner, Euroheat.

Thermia Biomatic

This boiler with upto 20 kW power,

can be ordered with orwithout an integratedpelletsburner.

The boiler has stan-ding tubes and a largeashbox, which canhandle ashes from upto 2 tonnes of pellets.

The nordic main way to burn pellets for small house heating

with water system is to mount a pelletsburner to a conven-

tional boiler. To be more easy to maintain the boiler should

be equipped with a large ashbox and with heat exchange surfaces

easy accessable to clean. Some example of often used boilers are

shown on this page, but there are a lot of manufacturers of suitable

boilers. The burners presented here are not all boilers on the nordic

market, the selection has been made according to delivered number

of units. The Swedish magazine Bioenergi (www.novator.se) printseach year a complete presentation of the burners on the Nordic mar-ket. Up to now around 40 000 pellets burners has been installed in

Sweden. The P-label is a guarantee for quality and production con-troll.

Effectawww.effectapannan.se

This shows a normal installation. In

the background thestorage bin.

Naturenergi

Iwabo Villa S110-20 kW, a small burner that can be attached di-rectly on the boiler door. First model on the mar-ket 15 years ago, agents in many countries. Verysimple maintance, automaticly electricity ignition.Price around 1 500 Euro. Larger models also av-ailable, up to 200 kW and also specialiced modelsfor grain burning.

Producer of Iwabo burners. Works also togetherwith Czeck Republic boiler producer Atmos.

www.naturenergi.se

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www.scand-pellet.se

10-20 kW. Preheated secondair for complete burning, 6-

8 mm pellets , electrical heat airingnition, on/off regulation, pri-celevel 2 000 Euro. Works withmost boilers.The company also have a boilerfor pellets and solar heating.Also a 50 kW model.



www.thermia.se (-fi)

The Thermia BeQuem is oneof the most reliable burners

on the market. The constructionis solid and the most exposedparts are made of heat proofcast iron. The unique overpres-sure system guarantees a trou-ble-free function. The automa-tion system is purpose built forpellet heating and enables a po-wer control in three stages. Theautomation display shows ne-cessary information about boi-ler temperature, flue gas tempe-rature, pellet consumption andfilling need. The burner can beoperated via remote control sys-tem. The burner is underfeeded.Effekt 15 -20 -25 kW. Price le-vel 2000 Euro.

Integrated modellThermia also produces an inte-grated model the Biomatic +.

Thermia

This is the first english language version of theguide to the nordic pellets burners. It has been

published in swedish since ten years in themagazine Bioenergi presenting all the products

available on the swedish market.Any comments or questions regarding the swedish

market, please contactSofie Samuelsson [email protected]

Reprinting or other waysof presenting the

information e.g. on theinternet is forbidden

without a writtenpermission from us.This article is also

presented onwww.bioenergyinternatio-

nal.comFor linking to our pages

please contact us.

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Baxi

www.baxi.se (-dk)

Eurofire 20 kW. Patented burningtechnology works like an oilburner,

electric ignition, long intervalls betweenmaintanance, crossfire modell, plc ma-naged, CE- and P-labelled, no movingparts, Size outside boiler 300 mm. Pricefor 20 kW incl. 1,7 m screw feeder aro-und 2 000 Euro. Burners for sizes up to300 kW also available.

MBio-

Energiteknik

www.mbio.se

This special kind of burner, 15 kW, is equipped with a mill, feeding the burner with

dust instead of pellets, eliminating problem withfine fraction. The burner is adjusting it self ac-cordning to different fuel. Equiped Self cleaning,has only to be cleand once a year, patented, pri-ce around 2000 Euro.

Värmebaronenwww.varmebaronen.se

Värmebaronen manufactures boilers anddifferent kind of burners. Last year they

also introduced their own small pellets burner,Viking Bio, without moving parts and with aflame directed forward. They emphasis thatthe burner works well in modern boilers withhigh pressure. 20 kW, automatic start, workslikes an oilburner. Price around 2 000 Euro.

Home heating

Pellux from NIBEwww.nibe.se

A large producer of boilers,

stoves and heatpumps.

Värmebaronen,Cometwww.varmebaro-nen.se

A boiler adop- ted for pellets

as well as for oil andelectricity. They ma-nufacture also a pel-letsburner of thereown .

TrebemaCalmarpannanOPEXwww.trebema.se

Pelletsboiler 20- 25 kW. The

company has diffe-rent models forwood and oil hea-ting. Price around2 000 Euro.

Multi - HeatIntegrated model with an internal storage of 200 to 600 l. capa-city of 15, 25 or 40 kW. Also possible for using with grain. Lamb-da control system can be attached.


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They have also been pioneers in using lamb-da sond technology, they started with thatalready 1981.

By now the product range of the Solarfocus - boi-ler sector consists of three segments.

All are based on the principle of woodgas - com-bustion with the flue gas flow driven by an ID fanand the gas flow goes from up to down.

– This guarantees a complete usage of the fuel,says Dipl.Ing. Andreas Simetzberger

– There are also no moving parts within the bur-ning chamber.

- The lambda sensor registers the actual situationof the combustion and gives this information to thecentral boiler control unit. Solarfocus can be foundon the web atwww.solarfocus.at

Wood and pelletsthe therminator:

This serie from 6-60 kWoffers the possibility ofusing two different fuelswithin the same com-bustion chamber.

You can use firewoodand wood pellets or fire-wood and wood chips.And the operation withpellets or chips is fullyautomated.

The combustionchamber is made ofstainless steel and thecompany issues a war-ranty period of 10 yearsto this part.

Pellet boilersIn the year 2002 twonew products just dedi-cated for pellets the pel-let plus and pellet topwas introduced.

– They were equippedwith a new patented sa-fety device, a turninglock, preventing firefrom burning back wasintroduced.

– The latest controlsystem allows also ope-ration from a distance

via modem.

The pellet top:This stand-alone boilerwith a maximum outputof 15 kW is very com-pact, only 55 x 108 x121,5 cm. Even with thepellet storage containerintegrated into the boi-ler.

The pellets feedingcan be done either pneu-matical with a suckingturbine or mechanicalwith screw-conveyor.

The efficiency factorof 96 % is the highestever measured in theAustrians admission of-fice.

The pellet plus:The 15 kW burner of thepellet plus is flanged di-rectly to a stratified solarstorage tank.

The hot flue gas isconducted through aheat exchanger that islocated in the half heightof the tank.

This heats up the up-per 400 litre of the sto-rage tank. To flange afully automatic biomass-burner directly to anstratified solar storagetank is a absolute novel-ty. Through the tankalso domestic hot waterpreparation can bedone.

The pellet plus is avery compact machinethat combines everyth-ing, the space heatingand the dhw-prepara-tion with both sources,the solar energy and theenergy of the pellets. Ifone do a calculationover the whole lifetime,you will see that you cansave up to 20% of theenergy costs, comparedto a conventional hea-ting system.

Downdraft pellets burning

Solarfocus a pioneerIn wood burning downdraft is the major prin-

ciple. It creats a very sharp and concentrated

burning zone with god possibilities to contro-

le the situatuion. As the only propducer Kalk-

gruber Solar- und umwelttechnik GmbH with

the brand Solarfocus has adobted this prin-

ciple for pellets burning.

Gilles Pellets and chipswww.gilles.at

Gilles is an austrian company producing equip-ment for heating of chips or pellets and produc-

tion of chips in mobile and stationary systemThe pellets boiler is equiped with an under feeded

outside mounted burner in the range from 5 - 60 kW.The boiler is equipped with automatic ash removaland lambda sond system for controlled combustion.They do now have delivered 8 000 systems accordning to information given in Wels 2004 at the exhi-bition.

Their product for firing chips is also based on anunderfeeded system. They hav products in a rangefrom 5 to 800 kW and claims to be biggest in euro-pe with their 20 000 delievered systems.

They produce 1 700 units every year, with 100employees and celebrated last year their 10th aniver-siry.

Biomatwww.biomat.at

The only combined wood and pellets boiler thatworks according to the company. The boiler is

watercooled. If wood burns down the pellets burningis started automaticly. The burner is also mounted indifferent other products for example also a kitchenstove with capacity for the central heating of thehouse.

KWB awardedfor a new dou-ble boiler

The boiler has arange of 50- 150

kW and works bothon wet and dry fuel. The jury in Welsawarded the cons-tructor AlexanderWeisinger and thecompany KWB withthe innovation pricefor 2004. – It is a milestone forcombustion techno-logy in this range. . It is overfeeded andequiped with a rota-ting grate. KWB is located inStyria in Austria andhas 25 percent of themarket for small hou-ses. The productionis now up to 2 000units a year and theyare expanding intoexport.

The new price award-ed boiler 50-150 kW

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BMT 2004 inLithuania

The 12th Internatio-nal Trade Fair of

Technology, Machine-ry, Equipment and Ma-terials for the Furnitu-re and Wood Industrywas organized in Vilni-us. BMT 2004 tookplace in the largestexhibition area aroundthe capital city bet-ween 22nd - 25th ofApril. The event wasprepared by one of theleading private capi-tal company in Lithua-nia developing the ex-hibition and fair busi-ness in all the country,VISUS PLENUS, thathas began its activity

Arturas Zekas fromRadviliskio MasinyGamykla introduced apellet press made inLithuania

Vilnis Vanagelis fromTauners sia Riga,represented theAustrian companyPolytechnik - producerof wood-fired furnaces

Briquetting presses,dust extractors fromHÖcker Polytechniktogether with woodwaste shredders fromGerman Reinbold wereshown in one stand

There was also largenumber of local visitors

Dorota Natucka

Events


www.bioenergyinternational.com Heat & PowerBig potential for Slovakianboiler builderSlovenske Enere-

ticke Strojarne,a.s., Tlmace, Slo-

vakia (SES) has been ac-tive on the market ofclassical power boilerssince 1950s.

It also did not fail tocope with the market de-mands in the area of bio-mass utilisation in thelast years, mainly in theneighbouring countries.

The deliveries in thissegment since 1997 in-clude 20 boilers installed

in Germany, Italy, Spainand Slovakia covering awide range of steam pa-rameters (steam ratesfrom 12.5 up to 120 t/h)and incineration techno-logy – various types offiring grates or fluidisedbed technology.

They do also havegood prospects for thefuture, mainly becauseof the legislation inmany EU countrieswhich favour plantsusing biomass by tax

cuts or subsidies on thegreen power produced.

Domestic marketThe aim of the companyis to use the experiencegained also in the do-mestic market. Somesteps have been perfor-med already –a planthas, as general contrac-tor, been built in BucinaZvolen and reconstruc-tion of the companyown heating for woodchips firing.

Still, the biomass mar-ket remains vastly undeve-loped in Slovakia. Thereare large quantities of sui-table biomass being was-ted each year – both in in-dustry and agriculture.

The lesson we havealready learned is quitesimple – reasonableschemes of biomass uti-lisation have a very po-sitive effect on local eco-nomy providing an envi-ronmentally friendly en-ergy source.

Looking for partnersTherefore we are loo-king for the partners toimplement these kind ofprojects and try to pro-

mote this message oncommunity level.

Milan BabicSES, a.s., Tlmace

Slovakia

Strongoli (Italy) – 2◊81 fluidized bed boilers

Neubrucke (Germany)– 37,5 t/h fluidized bedboilers

Traunreuth (Germany) – 21 t/h stoker-fired boiler



Prospects in south east Asiafor European co-In the ASEAN

countries the plantstandard can differ

substantially betweenindustrial sectors as wellas within those sectors.

From advanced topre war standard

Advanced systems arefound mainly in sectorscontrolled by internatio-nal business where thetechnology has becomestandardized. In localsectors particularly tho-se based on or associa-ted with agriculture andwood industry both sizeand standard varies wi-dely. It ranges fromsmall family owned bu-sinesses to national en-terprises and from Euro-pean pre war plant stan-dard to modern.

Power productionfrom rice and sugar

industryIn some countries thereare currently much emp-hasis on biomass utiliza-tion. Cogeneration sche-mes like the SPP (SmallPower Producer) pro-gram in Thailand haveincreased interest andinitiated strong develop-ment in some industrialsectors like rice millingand sugar industries.The palm oil and wood

industries are likely tofollow.

In the sugar industrythe process requirementis 25-30 kWh and 0.4tonne of steam per ton-ne of sugar cane. Out ofthis tonne of cane 100-120 kg sugar and290 kg bagasse isgenerated.

Surplus ofelectricity

These waste volumes re-present an energy re-source that goes beyondthe industry on site dem-and. There are amplepossibilities with adap-ted technology to gene-rate a surplus of electricpower that can be ex-ported to the nationalgrids. This is supportedin programs like the SPPprogramme in Thailand.

ASEAN Biomassfuels

The ASEAN biomass re-sources originate fromboth the agriculturalsector and wood indu-stry. The main volume

comes from the formersector and is almost ex-clusively represented byfast growing (annual)plants.

Alcali contentA common denominatoris the high contents of al-kali, preferably potassi-um and sodium, andchlorine. Combinedwith other elements ofthe fuel ash these ele-

ments have a propensitycausing combustion-re-lated problems such asslagging, fouling andcorrosion.

Slagging andcorrosion

Except for bagasse mostbiomass fuels show highto very high alkali con-tents.

Empty fruit bunches(EFB) from palm oil in-dustry also reveal veryhigh chlorine content. Achlorine analysis wouldprobably show that thisalso apply to rice straw.They both resemblewheat straw and tosome extent also muni-cipal solid waste(MSW). The relativelylow chlorine content ofthe other renewables isno guarantee that slag-ging and corrosion pro-blems will not occurwhen utilized in cogene-ration and powerplants.

Besides bagasse alsorice husk represents afuel that have a potenti-al in more demandingapplications.

European supplierprospects

Increased attentiontowards surplus electrici-ty generation will call formore efficient steam cy-cles based on more ad-vanced live steam data inthe end. The equipmentstandard in this respecthas been and still is fair-ly moderate in theASEAN countries. Thisseems to be based on tra-ditions, industrial struc-ture, lack of financingcapability and to an ex-tent hesitation amongnational power monopo-

lies to allow small-scalepower productions unitsto be connected to thegrids. Considering thesestructural obstacles ithas therefore not paidoff to invest in efficientcogeneration units. Thisis now breaking up.

In this situation Euro-pean industry shouldhave a competitive edge.This is due to its expe-rience burning deman-ding fuels at high boilerefficiencies based on ef-ficient cycles with ad-vanced steam data.

BackgroundThis article is based onthe experiences fromthe COGEN 3 Pro-gramme, an economicco-operation betweenthe European Commis-sion (EC) and the Asso-ciation of South EastAsian Nations(ASEAN). The Pro-gramme promotes theuse in ASEAN of pro-ven, clean and efficientEuropean cogenera-tion technology andequipment with bio-

mass, coal and gas asfuels. The ASEAN regi-on - encompassing Bru-nei, Cambodia, Indo-nesia, Laos, Malaysia,Myanmar, Philippines,Singapore, Thailandand Vietnam - has a po-pulation of about 500million and a total in-stalled power genera-tion capacity of about77 000 MW. The ex-pected energy demandgrowth in ASEAN is inthe range of 6 to 13 %.

By Olle Nyström

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Heat & Power


www.bioenergyinternational.com Heat & Power

Marks VärmeAB, a muni-cipality ow-

ned heat and power uti-lity in Kinna about 60km from Gothenburg,has chosen Wärtsilä Bio-power Oy as the mainsupplier of a new biofu-elled power plant.

The utility’s mainfunction is to provide di-strict heat. The new po-wer plant will be takeninto use at the beginningof 2005. ”This ordermarks an importantbreakthrough for us in

Sweden, where electrici-ty generation regula-tions emphasize the useof renewable fuels suchas wood chips, bark andsawdust,” said TordJohnsson, Power PlantManager of WärtsiläSweden AB. ”We solidlybelieve that followingthis first delivery moresuch bioplants will bebuilt in Sweden in thefuture.”

Bengt-Allan Frost,Managing Director ofMarks Värme AB, com-mented:

Electrowatt-Eko-no (UK) Ltd,which is part of

the Jaakko PöyryGroup’s Energy businessgroup, has been awar-ded a contract by KentEnviropower Limited asowner’s engineer for thelargest waste-to-energyfacility using fluidisedbed technology in Euro-pe.

The contract will ex-tend current services andthe value of this assign-ment is EUR 1.7 million.The site is located at Al-

lington Quarry in Kent,UK, and the project willconsist of an integratedmaterials recovery, was-te fuel preparation andwaste-to-energy plantcomprising three streamfluidised bed units.

Electrowatt-Ekono’sservices include projectmanagement; reviewand approval of the EPCcontractor’s designs; su-pervision of construc-tion, commissioning andtesting; and manage-ment of plant take-overprocedures. The services

will be carried out by theend of 2006.

The new waste-to-en-ergy facility will have anannual capacity of 500000 tonnes and willwork with a materialsrecovery facility able totake up to 65 000 tonnesa year of source separa-ted materials for recyc-ling.

The facility will takeonly non hazardouswastes and will generateup to 40 MW of electri-city to power the plantand for export to the lo-

cal supply network.Kent Enviropower

Ltd is part of the WasteRecycling Group, whichis one of the UK’s le-ading waste manage-ment companies.

The Group operatesacross the UK and recei-ves, processes, recyclesand disposes of morethan 10 million tonnesof waste a year for awide range of local aut-hority and commercialcustomers.

The Group operates anetwork of landfill sites,

Electrowatt-Ekono awardedwaste-to-energy contract in UK

– We received severalbids for this project butafter careful evaluationwe chose the combinedheat and power solutionoffered by Wärtsilä Bio-power Oy.

– This is a distinctlymore conomical solu-tion than investing in aheat plant only.

– Moreover, the newbioplant will enable usto expand heat produc-tion in the region as wellas helping us to reduceoil consumption. It willalso allow us to genera-

te electricity in compli-ance with themunicality’s operatingprinciples, which inclu-de giving priority to sus-tainable environmentaldevelopment.

”Wärtsilä Bio Powerwill build the new BioPower plant beside theexisting Assbergsverketplant in Skene. Togetherwith the existing districtheating plant the newbio power plant willsupply district heat to800 customers.

Electricity production

Small swedish utilitybuys plant for combinedheat and power

will correspond to thehousehold electricityneed of 2 500 detachedhouses.

The new power plantwill generate 3.5 MWeof electricity and 16MWth of heat. Some ofthe heat will also besupplied to nearby indu-strial facilities.

The bio power plantwill be fueled by woodwaste, mainly bark andsawdust, from sawmills.

Municipal companyMarks Värme AB is amunicipal companywith net sales in 2003totaling 3.5 millionEuro.

When established on1 August 1996 to pro-duce district heat in theMark municipality, thecompany took over anexisting district heatingplant and its heating net-work.

In recent years thecompany has built twomore district heatingplants - AssbergsverketEtapp 1 and the Fritsladistrict heat plant - aswell as a district heatingnetwork covering ap-proximately 38 kilome-ters in 2003.

The total output ofthese plants in 2003amounted to 92.5 GWh.

is a leader in the field ofwaste composting, gene-rates more than 100MW of energy fromlandfill gas and runs amajor waste-to-energyplant in Nottingham.

The Energy businessgroup, operating underthe brand name Electro-watt-Ekono, had net sa-les of EUR 98 million in2003. Electrowatt-Eko-no has offices in 22countries and employs1100 experts worldwi-de.

Polish visitorsin Sweden.

R epresentativesfrom one of the

largest Polish powerplants Turow SA andregional governmentalcentres visited Mälar-Energi the owner of acombined power andheating plant in Väs-terås west of Stock-holm.

The visitors wanted toknow more aboutSwedish experience,compare differentpractices and learnmore about possibili-ties of converting fromcoal to biofuel.

Piotr Borys - memberof the Dolnoslaski par-lament board,JerzyKrzyzowski EcoTerraConsulting, Jerzy Las-kawiec Director Gena-ral of Turow AS, PatricMarklund MMEnviloop Västerås combinedpower and heatingplant is Sweden’s lar-gest plant of this kindhaving the longest di-strict heating systemin the country - morethan 500 kilometerswhere 90% of all buil-dings in the region ofVästerås are connec-ted to this network. Byfiring with biofuel theMälarEnergi reducedthe emission of carbondioxide by one third.

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Jerzy Krzyzowski


www.bioenergyinternational.comHeat & Power

Simatek A/S is offering a unique solution for the retro-

fitting of existing elec-trostatic precipitatorsfor cleaning of flue gasor other process gases,providing a reduction ofthe ash amount to max.10 mg/Nm3.

Below we will give adescription of the retro-fitting of an electrostaticprecipitator for cleaningof 216,000 Am3/h fluegas, as shown on the en-closed layout.

The retrofitting layoutprovides for major partof the existing electro-static precipitator sys-tem to be reapplied.

The first of the threezones is foreseen to con-tinue operating as befo-re, while the two nextzones are taken out ofoperation and the inter-nal parts removed. Ins-tead four individual bagfilter ”modules”, eachholding 200 filter bags,will be installed.

The bottom of theelectrostatic precipitatorwill not be affected bythe retrofitting, as theexisting ash conveyingsystem will be handlingthe ash from the fourbag-filter ”modules”.

As is to be seen fromthe enclosed layout, thegas flow from the clean-air outlets of the four fil-ter modules is collectedin the existing outletduct of the electrostaticprecipitator.

Only a blind coverwill have to be installedat the existing outletfrom the electrostaticprecipitator, as shownon the drawing.

Simatek A/S offers thescope of supply as des-cribed below:

1. 2 pcs. JM 200/100-03, 3C plus 2 pcs.

JM 200/110-03, 3C fil-ter modules completewith totally 800 filterbags, 400 pcs. of whichwith 10 m bag length,and 400 pcs. with 11 mbag length. The twofront modules have 10m bag length to allowfree flue gas access to the11 m bags installed be-hind.

2. Totally 4 pcs.ø3500x3500 mm exten-sion pieces for installa-tion of the filter bags onthe retrofitted top of theelectrostatic precipitatorin zones 2 and 3.

3. 2 pcs. low-pres-sure cleaning-air com-pressors to be mountedat the service platform,at level 21.928.

4. Check of detai-led documentation to beperformed by a contrac-tor employed by theend-user plant, based onguidelines put forwardby Simatek A/S.

5. Simatek A/S’scope of supply includesfacilities to start, stop,and operate the filters,as well as pulse-jet clea-ning of the filter bags, cf.the descriptions attach-ed.

The contractor hasto take care of:

1. Erection and in-stallation of the equip-ment delivered by Sima-tek

2. Necessary modi-fications of the electro-static precipitator

3. Ducting betweenbag filters and outletduct of existing electro-static precipitator

4. Penthouse andstructural floor aroundthe four filter modules atlevel 21,928

5. Insulation ofpenthouse, ducts, andthe four filter housings,

ø3500 mm6. Stairs and service

platform at level 21,928Subjects to be clari-

fied:1. A guarantee that

the existing induceddraft fan with motor canmanage the extra pres-sure drop requirementof approx. 1300 Pamust be obtained fromthe supplier of same.

2. The capacity ofthe existing ash handlingsystem must be checkedand possibly modified,with a view to the chan-

ged output from totallysix ash outlet points.The new requirementmay amount approx.50/25/25% over the th-ree zones, each distribu-ted on two outlets.

Remarkable Featuresof the Simatek 3C Filter

The unique bag clea-ning system with low-pressure cleaning of thefilter bags one-by-oneensures effective clea-ning of bags with upto11 metres length (not”only” 10 m as mentio-

Reduced Emission Values

- Unique Retrofitting ofElectrostatic Precipitator

ned in some of the litera-ture attached). First ofall this provides for asufficient bag filter areain the electrostatic preci-pitator and thereby areasonably low air-to-cloth ratio of 0.97 m3/m2/min. Secondly thelow-pressure cleaning atapprox. 0.7 bar ensuresa gentle and effective cle-aning and a long lifetimeof the filter bags, andalso a remarkable powersaving compared to tra-ditional cleaning at ahigher pressure.

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Moreover having anew bioboiler thecompany saves ap-proximately SEK100million each year ba-sed on the presenttaxation rules.

Jens Neres from Mä-lar Energi explains theVästerås district hea-ting system

The Polish Turow Po-wer Plant has an instal-led capacity equal to2105 MW and the ther-mal energy productionis 825 345 GJ with lig-nite used as fuel.

Jerzy Laskawiec Di-rector General ofTurow AS is checkingthe fuel quality

Regarding new regula-tions 12% of energyproduced in Polanduntil 2010 must comefrom different renewa-ble sources includingbiomass. cont.p 24

Jan Dubas owner ofthe largest salix pro-duction company inPoland - WENA took asample of the biofuel.


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Due to the chemi-cal compositionof sunflower

husks, it is difficult toburn these in a reliableand sustainable manner.

Ash will deposit oncolder surfaces of theboiler system and agglo-meration starts to takeplace. Therefore it beco-mes necessary to cleanthe sunflower husk com-bustion boiler twice permonth. However via thegasification process, it ispossible to convert the

sunflower husks conti-nuously into a synthesisgas. After de-dusting thesynthesis gas, it can beburned in a high effi-ciency boiler in order toproduce steam or hotwater.

During recent yearsHoSt and the Dutch En-ergy Institute ECN deve-loped the CirculatingFluid Bed (CFB)-gasifi-cation reactor. At ECN,the first 500 kWth CFBgasifier was build as apilot plant in 1995. Sin-

ce the first start-up ofthis gasifier a broadrange of biomass materi-als have been successful-ly tested in this gasifier.

A few of these fuels in-clude demolishingwood, straw, chickenmanure, bagasse, RefuseDerived Fuel. Duringnormal operation of theplant the gas producedwith the gasifier is bur-ned in a flame tubesteam boiler.

Melting ash pro-blems

In Southern Europe, alarge number of sunflo-wer oil factories exist.

During the barkingprocess, the husks areseparated from theseeds. Until a few years

ago in Eastern Europe,there was only one op-tion for husks disposal:combustion on a grate ina furnace, using the heatfor steam production

(see figure 2). Combus-tion of the husks createsbig operational pro-blems. These problemsare caused due to thechemical composition of

First Commercial bio to Romanian sunflower A new way of converting sunflower husk to

energy has increased the efficiency from 60

to 85 percent and dubbled the operational

hours compared to the traditional way of com-

busting sunflower husk.

Figure 4: The syngas flame in the pilot plant

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Turow SA power plantdecided to produce2,5% electrical energyusing different biofuelsinstead of coal. Itshould not be too hardto implement the newkind of fuel and achie-ve the goal while pro-duction of energy inTurow AS is alreadybased on using mo-dern circulating fluidi-zed bed boilers.

Some facts aboutPolish energy sector:

Privatization of thepower generation sec-tor has been progres-sing slowly as it is clo-sely interrelated withplanned sectorrestructuring and re-gulatory uncertainty.There are a number ofplanned large privati-zation for 2004 (suchas ENEA and PKE)butthe process has notstarted yet. As a partof sector restructuring,the Government isconsidering creatingBOT Group to be thelargest and the strong-est polish generationgroup which will beable to face new regu-latory environmentand stronger compe-tition. The proposedBOT Group wouldconsist of large state-owned entities1.Turow Power Plantwith neighbouring lig-nite mine 2. BelchatowPower Plant with itsneighbouring lignitemine and 3. OpolePower Plant. BOT gro-up, if formed, wouldrepresent the largestpower generation en-tity in Poland andwould probably re-main in the statehands over near futu-re.

Dorota Natucka


www.bioenergyinternational.comGasification

the husks.Fuels as straw, husks

and chicken manure dohave a relative low ”ashmelting point”, mainlycaused by the high con-tent of alkalis in the fuel.Almost all the moltenash, which comes intocontact with colder sur-faces of the boiler partsand will immediately so-lidify and starts to agg-lomerate

These agglomeratedproducts create an insu-lation layer on the heatexchanging pipes of theboiler. The boiler its ef-ficiency will decline, andin approximately 2-3weeks, an unacceptableamount of ash has ag-glomerated and the boi-ler has to be taken out ofservice for maintenance.

The gasificationsolution

For production of ener-gy, fluid bed gasificationof the sunflower husksoffers a much improved

solution. To prove this, atruckload of husks wastransported to the pilotgasification installationat ECN, Petten, TheNetherlands. In the pilotplant it became clearthat the sunflower husksare an ideal fuel for ga-sification. The small oilcontent in the husks cre-ates a synthesis gas witha high energy value (seefigure 3 and 4).

Working principle ofCFB gasification

Husks are pneumatical-ly transported from thefactory into a dosingbunker. In the dosingbunker, a screw causesadjustment of the flowof husks. Via a rotaryvalve and a secondscrew, the husks aretransported to the gasi-fier vessel. In the gasifiervessel, the husks come incontact with air and pre-heated hot sand. Thesand heats up the husksand the air, and the hus-

ks combust partly. The-re is not enough air per-mitted for total combus-tion, the temperaturetherefore remains at avery constant value ofapproximately 800°C.

The heating valueamounts around 6,4MJ/m3n.

Sand in the gas is se-parated by means of acyclone and is circulatedback to the gasifier ves-sel. Synthesis gas, co-ming out of the gasifierrecycle cyclone, is coo-led down in a gas coolertowards a temperatureof 500°C.

Further separation ofash particles is realisedby three additional cy-clones (see figure 5). Be-cause of the relative lowtemperature of the gas,the ash remains solidand agglomeration, as

mentioned earlier, doesnot take place. Further-more the harmful alkalimetals contained in thegas will condense on theash particles during coo-ling down of the gas inthe gas cooler. The me-tals are also removedwith the ash in the sepa-ration cyclones.

After cleaning the gasfrom the ash, it is suita-ble for combustion in anormal boiler. HoSt hasdeveloped a special bur-ner for an efficient com-bustion of the low hea-ting value gas.

The total efficiency,from husk input tosteam output, increasesfrom 60% in the situa-tion of the conventionalburning furnace withboiler to approximately85%. The increase orig-inates from a higher car-

bon conversion, no fou-ling of boiler pipes and avery low stack loss be-cause of a very lowamount of excess airneeded for the efficientgas burner. The maxi-mum operational hoursper year are expected todouble from 4000 hrs to8000 hrs.

In spring of 2004, thegasification system for aRomanian sunflower oilplant has been construc-ted in The Netherlands(see figure 7). It is expec-ted that the gasificationplant will be running inRomania in May 2004.

The gasifier has acapacity of 1200 kg hus-ks/hr and a correspon-ding thermal capacity of5 MWth.Ir. H. Klein TeeselinkHoSt B.V.

mass gasifieroil producer

Figure 1: Schematic presentation of refractorylined part of the gasifier.

Figure 2. Melted ash, dripping from the grate.

Figure 3. Husks in the flamefeeding bunker

Figure 5. Schematic presentationof the gasifier

Figure 6. Gasifier under construktion

Biomass gasifi-cation in paperand pulp indu-stry

T he US and theSwedish govern-

ment agencies areboth co-operatingwith the respectivecountry’s paper andpulp and power indu-stries with a view tofacilitate the use ofbiomass and other re-newable fuels to redu-ce CO2 emissions.Major tax exemptions,investment grants,and other subsidiarymeasures have beenput in place.

Chemrec black li-quor gasification iscurrently demonstra-ted and is further de-veloped for commerci-al applications.

In the interest of re-placing fossil transportfuels, NykombSyner-getics has initiated todate five EU-financedstudies where bio-mass gasificationtechnology has beenthe essential process.Currently there is wi-despread interest indeveloping alternativetransport fuels and ga-sification has beenchosen as preferredtechnology by theSwedish EnergyAgency, Swedish Na-tional Road Adminis-tration, Swedish Envi-ronment ProtectionAgency and the

Apart from this, Ny-komb has investigatedtwo technologies forbiomass gasificationand power generation- the Brightstar refor-mer technology andthe Carbona technolo-gy. Carbona is current-ly to build a commer-cial plant in Denmarkincluding cleanup anda gas engine.

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Member of the ForestryDemoFairs-Network

The largest and most important forestry tradeshow for2004 will be held during 16-19 June. Organised byKWF (Kuratorium für Waldarbeit & Forsttechnik) incooperation with Elmia the site for forestry action isGross-Umstadt just south of Frankfurt (a.M.) inGermany.

Like Elmia Wood the KWF forestry tradeshow is a demofair set up out in the forest. Here you will witness

forest machinery and equipment, haulage, mobile saw-mills and firewood machinery being put to the test inreal working conditions. Together with suppliers ofaccessories and services to the industry KWF is a complete forestry event.

So if forestry is your business then Gross-Umstadt 16-19 June is the place to be.

MORE INFORMATION: WWW.ELMIA.SE/BIOENERGY AND WWW.SVEBIO.SE/WORLDBIOENERGY

100 TWH (360 PJ) FROM BIOENERGY?Discover for yourself how the Swedes manage to generate 20 % of their total energydemands from bioenergy sources.

Organised by the Swedish Bioenergy Association SVEBIO and Elmia AB, the WorldBioenergy 2004 conference and exhibition provides you with an exclusive forum to:

• network with international bioenergy “movers and shakers”• listen to the latest cutting edge research and development• learn about modern technologies and their commercial potential• see how commercially implemented these technologies work• locate potential partners for co-operation projects• meet existing and potential business partners

World Bioenergy 2-4 June 2004

“Taking you from Know-How to Show-How”

OPET NetworkAnnual GeneralMeeting 2003

Bratislava,Slovak Republic

On October 30th -31st 2003, OPET

Network Annual Ge-neral meeting tookplace in Bratislava. Organisation and lo-cal arrangementswere provided by En-ergy Centre Bratislava,a member of OPETSlovakia. The overallcoordinator was CO-OPET in cooperationwith PRACSIS. The main objectiveof the conference wasto envision the futureof the OPET Network,to define its key-acti-vities and to explorethe new opportunitiesin the fields of energyefficiency, renewableenergy sources, trans-port and buildings inenlarged Europe. The European Com-mission was represen-ted by Mr. Jose Ans-elmo (Dep. of Dissemi-nation and Valorisationof Technology, Energyand Transport) and Mr.Gonzalo Molina (Direc-tor of Demand Mana-gement - Dir. D), repre-sentatives of Directo-rate-General for Ener-gy and Transport (DGTREN). OPET’s future willdepend upon its abili-ty to enable and tosupport the applica-tion of technologyR&D on the market. OPETs will focus ona new target group -the end-users of theenergy, future citizensof the enlarged Euro-pean Union. The most difficulttasks that have to besolved are the buil-dings and transport.

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Mr. Gonzalo Molinaindicated several poli-tical/legislative tools ofDemand Manage-ment:• White Book on RES• Action plan for EE inEurope• Directive on RES-electricity• Directive on applian-ces• Directive on energyperformance of buil-dings Implementation ofdirectives on cogene-ration, biofuels andenergy services is ex-pected. These directiveshave to be implemen-ted into the new mem-ber states’ legislationafter joining the EU,too. The European Com-mission will especiallysupport implementa-tion of the projects fo-cused on researchand development, re-newable energy sour-ces and energy effi-ciency in the newmember states in thenear future. New member statesthus have a great opp-ortunity to gain finan-cial sources for theirprojects, mainly fromthe Intelligent Energyfor Europe Programand the Sixth Frame-work Program. Projects providingcomplex solution andprojects of local cha-racter will hold prece-dence. Organizations, en-terprises and citiesmay apply for the sup-port for their projects. Energy Centre Bra-tislava ECB will conti-nue supporting of theinnovative energytechnologies imple-mentation and disse-minating.

Events

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Three bus tours will be arranged before the be-ginning of the exhibition and the conference,and two post conference tours after the all

event. Amongst a lot of other interesting things that willbe presented during these study tours Enköping com-bine heat and power plant seams to be one of leadingstops. This beautifully located plant is interesting inmany aspects. First of all it delivers commercially att-ractive electricity. The fuel burned there is also partial-ly Salix from local plantations that are irrigated usingboth the municipal waste water from the city of Enkö-ping and ashes from the power plant. Enköping plantrepresents the most interesting concept that can be ar-ranged in the same way in many places all over theworld. Also the small biofuelled district heating plantof Kolbäck will be shown. It is owned by a local groupof farmers who are running the plant and producing thefuel themselves. Moreover don't miss the rare birds areain Västkärr. This had been created after the productionof peat was ended in that area a few years ago.

Another bus tour will guide you to the worlds largestbiogas production unit for fuels for vehicles - Linkö-ping, the ethanol production plant in Norrköping andthe pellet production plant in Forssjö. The total presen-tation of the study tours and the arrangement is pos-sible to find at www.worldbioenergy.se /LLj

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Ethanol production Pellets production

Biogas forvehicles

Chippedforestry fuel

Dorota Natuckapresents forestry fuelstored on a roadside

Eddie Johansson,manager of the CHPplant in Enköpingshows the energyplantation and thepower plant itself.


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Slovak BiomassForum

On February 9th -10th 2004, the

Energy Centre Bratis-lava held the 4th Inter-national Slovak Bio-mass Forum (ISBF)2004 Conference atthe hotel Danube inBratislava, Slovak Re-public. Coming from resultsof the previous suc-cessful conferenceannuals, taking intoconsideration the re-cent challenges in theenergy sector in Slova-kia as well as in Euro-pe, the ISBF 2004 wasdedicated to the maintheme: Biomass - the oppor-tunity for business, re-gional developmentand clever energy ma-nagement. The ISBF 2004 wasfocussed on practicaland sound solutions ofthe most important le-gal, financial, organisa-tional and processbarriers recently exis-ting in the market en-vironment. In the context of pos-sibilities offered by EUaccession funding/community program-mes available for newEU member states, JI/ET schemes as well ascommercial loans, theISBF 2004 were broad-ly discussed the opp-ortunities for financingof biomass projects. Participants andspeakers providedwith opportunity to in-form and to be infor-med about current sta-tus of biomass utilisa-tion in Slovakia/otherCEEC, actions plan-ned and future per-spectives. For the first time in its

After another suc-cessful exhibi-tion organised

by ITEBE (EuropeanBioenergy Technical In-stitute) in Lons-le-Sauni-er at the beginning ofApril, the tendency is anincreasing interest in de-veloping bioenergy.

The French forests co-ver 15 million hectares(37 million acres) andare used partly in thepaper, pulp and woodindustry and partly as anenergy source.

The wood used forenergy production amo-unts to 42 million m3

and the French Agencyfor Environment andEnergy Management(ADEME) estimates thatan additional 10-12 mil-lion m3 can be burnedon a yearly basis in futu-re, without competingwith the industry andusing only the material

that can be extractedand transported at a re-asonable cost. The addi-tional quantity repre-sents about 3 MTOE.

ADEME started it’sprogramme for upgra-ding wood as an energysource in 1994, covering10 French regions atthat time. It was howe-ver extended to the who-le country already in1999, and while bet-ween 1994 and 1998117 municipal heatingplants and 68 industrialheating plants werebuilt, the number hasgrown to about 150units per year since1999.

In the ADEME pro-gramme for develop-ment of wood energy2000 - 2006 the objecti-ve has been put to 1000new heating plants,where of 400 in the in-dustrial sector. The addi-

tional energy outputshould exceed 1 000MW for a consumptionof 2 million m3 of woodper year. This will savearound 300 000 TOE offossil fuels yearly.

Another fuel sourcethat is partly neglectedin France today is cerealstraw. French agricultu-re produces approxima-tely 25 million tonnes ofstraw per year, out ofwhich 5 million tonnescould be used as fuel.

Collection of residualsfrom for instance cornculture is another sourceyet to be explored, aswell as using low ratedfarmland for the cultureof switch grass, miscant-hus and elephant grass.

About 6 millionFrench households usewood heating as a com-plement to another ener-gy source, mainly elec-tricity, which cor-

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A price comparison made by ADEME in 2002shows the cost of different heating sources:Direct electricity 80 EUR/MWh app. same as Pro-pane gas. Natural gas 40 EUR/MWh, Fuel oil35 EUR/MWhPellets in small bags 55 EUR/MWhBulk pellets 27.5 EUR/MWhWood logs 27.4 EUR/MWhWood chips 20.8 EUR/MWh

French bioenergyresponds to 8.5 MTOEper year. 1/3 of theseheating units are openfireplaces with efficiencyaround merely 30%,and unacceptably highpollution values.

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history, the conferen-ce was organized inthe form of thematicworkshops and paneldiscusions, modera-ted by top-level ex-perts and journalists. The main goal was• connect diversemarket interestgroups,• focus on identifica-tion of weak points,• find out solutionsand• significantly contri-bute to biomass take-off in the market envi-ronment. The ISBF 2004 hel-ped to establish fairbusiness activities,contacts and ideasamong actors fromSlovakia and other EUcountries.

The ISBF Award Ce-remony.As part of the 4th In-ternational Slovak Bio-mass Forum 2004, theEnergy Centre Bratis-lava was also organi-sing the ISBF 2004Awards competition. Prizes were awar-ded to projects in thecategories of BestProject Implemented,Best Thesis and BestProject Idea. Submis-sions were judged byan expert panel of pro-fessionals from the en-ergy and environmen-tal sectors. Award winners hadthe opportunity to pre-sent their project andresults during the con-ference, as well as hadproject abstracts pub-lished in the conferen-ce proceedings.

Jozef Viglasky, SlovakBiomass Association

(SK-BIOM)

The 2nd Interna-tional EnergyConference took

the place on April 27and 28, 2004, in Leip-zig, -Germany, on theeve of the EU enlarg-ment, when the EU gain10 new members andalso increasing opportu-nities for commercialeexchanges of all kindsincluding trade in energy.

Over 500 expertsfrom 41 countries arediscussing a pivotal issu-es, focusing on the newEU accession countriesin particular, how canthe unique experiencesof the former east Ger-man states be applied,with regards to thetransformation of theenergy industry. The in-corporation of the ener-

gy markets of the newEU members into EUmarket and the impactthat the Unions newneighbors will have onthis market were the im-portant themes on theConference. There wereestimated that the chal-lenges resulting from theenlargement of the EUand the interaction withits new neighbours, in-

Restructing the Energy Sector in TransitionCountries, 2nd Int. Conference, Leipzig

clude the conflicts bet-ween market sat diffe-rent stages of liberaliza-tion and the need for in-creased coordination ofenergy strategies.

Energy-related envi-ronmental issues in theenlarged EU were alsoone of the topic of theConference, specially

adressed in the 4th PanelDiscussion, when thepanelist presented : Re-newable Energies andIntegration in a Sustai-nable Energy System inTransition Countries.

Mag. MartinaSumenjak

[email protected]

Cont. from p 28

Annette Schiller, Man. Dir., Ombiasy GmbH, Hossein Razavi, Dir. for Infrastructure and Energy Department, Europe and Central Asia Region,Holger Tschense, Vice-Mayor, Dep. of Env., Public Order and Sports, Leipzig,Wolfgang Wille, Man. Dir., Stadtwerke Leipzig GmbH, Germany.

The panel discussion was morerated by SusanneSchmidt, Bloomberg, UK, the paneltist were

Martina Sumenjak, President, SlobiomSlovenia, Mario Ragwitz, Head of Renewable

Energy, Frauenhofer ISI, Germany, OliverKnauff, Managing Director, Opera Thing

Gmbh, Germany and Gustav Grob, ExecutiveSecretary, ISEO, Switzerland.



Market Forumsin Augsburg

”IHE WoodEnergy2004 - internationaltrade fair and confe-rence for wood ener-gy” and the renewableenergies trade fair andconference ”REN-EXPO(r) 2004” will betaking place at the fairground in Augsburg(near Munich), Germa-ny from 21-24 Octo-ber, 2004. During the four dayevent, an internationalaudience of approx-imately 300 exhibitors,presenting in an areaof 15 000 m2, and 10000 visitors, 800 ofwhom will be atten-ding conferences, isexpected. The ”IHE” fair is de-dicated to all aspectsof energy from solidbiomass, whilst” R E N E X P O ( r ) ”addresses a widerange of renewableenergy topics as wellas energy saving wit-hin the building sector,passive house and re-construction. The fair is accompa-nied by a top-classconference from theBundesverbandesBioEnergie (BBE), Fe-deral Society of BioEnergy. In 2003 ”IHE” wel-comed over 6,000 Eu-ropean visitors, ofwhich half were busi-ness visitors. Some ofthis year’s special to-pics include pellets,sun and wood, woodenergy for private use,and wood energy forcommercial use in thefield of industry, hand-craft and town coun-cils.For further informa-tion:w w w . e n e r g y -server.com

Borzen, SlovenianPower MarketOperator organi-

sed on 28th and 29thApril 2004 in Ljubljanathe 2nd InternationalConference on New Di-mensions of the Sloven-ian Energy Market onEU Entry and the Ope-ning of an OrganisedBiomass Market in Slo-venia.

The first day of theconference was focusingon the energy marketand the secend day onthe biomass market.

Damjan Stanek, Ge-neral Manager Borzen,stressed that the Sloveni-as entry into the EU iscreating a range of newopportunities.

The main conclutionof the first day of the

conference was breaflypointed out that the or-ganised market in Slove-nia is working towardsthe integration of electri-city markets in centraland South-East Europe.

The central point ofthe second day of theconference, which attan-ded also Mag. Janez Ko-pac, the slovenian Minis-ter for the Environment,

The final panel discussion on wood biomass market in South-East European Region and opportunities for foreign companies (from l. to the r. ): Aleksandar Knezevic, CETEOR, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Julije Domac, HRVOJE POZAR, Croatia, Josef

Plank, ABA, Austria, Peter Nemcek, Borzen, Slovenia, Martina Sumenjak, SLOBIOM, Slovenia and Eliseo Antonini, AIEL, Italia.

Events

Spatial Planning and En-ergy, was the presenta-tion of the pilot projectsfor organised trading forwood biomass.

The project is organi-sed by Borzen and su-ported by the Ministry.The system of biomasstrading is offitial openedfrom 15th April 2004(http://ove.borzen.si).Upto now more than

50 users are registred.This pilot project is

one of the elements in thedevelopment of the ex-ploatation of wood bio-mass in the part of South-East Europe where allthat is needed is the rightinvestors to take advanta-ge of the potential.

Mag. MartinaSumenjak,

[email protected]

New dimension of the slovenian energy marketOpening of an organised bioenergy market

EnergiaForum2004TampereFinland 27-29Oct 2004

in the history of the Energia Fairs. This time the Fairwill be held for the eighth time. A whole Nuclear Fo-rum will be set up in Hall C.

More info can be found on following websites:www.expomark.fi/energiawww.energiaforum.comwww.energiafoorumi.fi

The energy industry is now talking about emis-sion trade, investments and subcontracts. Thefuture will be discussed at the Energia Forum

2004 in Tampere on 27 to 29 Oct 2004. The eventwill cover the Energia 2004 Fair, Energy Day and theEnergy Congress.

The Energia 2004 Fair will be the largest event ever


www.bioenergyinternational.comCalendarMay10 - 142nd World Conferenceand Tehnology Exhibi-tion on Biomass for En-ergy, Industry ad Clima-te ProtectionPalazzo di CongressiRome, Italywww.etaflorence.itwww.wip-munich.de

11 - 13Victam International2004, Exhibition andConferenceJaarbeurs Halls, UtrechtThe Netherlandswww.victam.com

13Pellets for Bioenergy, In-ternational ConferenceJaarbeurs Halls, UtrechtThe [email protected]/ae-biomwww.victam.com

25 - 27All-Energy Opportuni-tiesAberdeen, [email protected]

25 - 27Power-GenEuropé 2004

Barcelona, [email protected]

29 - 31World Renewable Ener-gy Forum 2004-GlobalBenefits and PoliciesBonn, Germanywww.wcre.org

June1 - 4International Conferencefor Renewable EnergiesBonn, Germanywww.renewables2004.de

2 - 4World Bioenergy 2004Conference and exhi. onbiomass for energyElmia - Svebio,Jönköping, Swedenwww.elmia.se/bioenergyw w w . s v e b i o . s e /worldbioenergy

2 - 3Bioenergy Conferenceand Exhibition 2004Prince George, BritishColumbia, [email protected]

9 - 10Eurotrade 2004 -Innovative design solu-

tions using renewableBournemouth Interna-tional Centre, UKresources&compositeswww.eurotradeshow.com

16 - 1914th KWF Forest Mach-inery and InnovationsDieburg, Germanywww.kwf-online.de

23 - 25II Inter. Fair of Devicesand Technologies for theWood Pellets Industry”PELLETS-EXPO”Bydgoszcz, [email protected]

September20 - 22II Inter. Ukrainian Con-ference on Biomass forEnergyKyiv, Ukrainewww.biomass.kiev.ua/conf2

22 - 244th International Energyand Power ExhibitionZaragoza, Spainwww.powerexpo.org

28 - 306th International energy

efficiency ConferenceENEF 2004 on Energyand Environ. PolicyBratislava, Slovak [email protected]

October06 - 09Woodworking, Tools,Forest,Riga, Latviawww.prima.lv

12 - 15Inter Exhibition for Po-wer Generation andDistribution, Elec Tech-nology, Energy Infras-tructure and Services,Renewable EnergyShanghai, Chinawww.energyasia.com.cnwww.hfchina.com

19 - 21Energy ExposSustainable Energy, En-ergy Efficiency and En-vironmantal SolutionsOlympia, London,UKwww.energy-expo.info

21 - 24HolzEnergie 2004www.holz-energie.decombine withRENEXPO 2004www.energie-server.deAugsburg, Germany

27 - 29EnergiaForum 2004Tampere, Finlandwww.energiaforum.com

November15 - 16VI International Confe-rence Slobiom 2004RES for south east Euro-pe 2020Ljubliana, Sloveniawww.slobiom-zveza.si

2005January26 - 28Central European Bio-mass Conference 2005Graz, Austria

February2-4GreenTech 2005Symposium on Renewa-ble ResourcesPotsdam, Germanywww.uropoint-bv.com/greentech2005

Mars - April31 - 3Mondial BioenergieExhibition, businessmeetings, ConferenceParis, Francewww.itebe-expo.org

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