Technology to Spare WHILE the conference portion of World Bioenergy 2008 at- tracted 1,200 delegates from over 60 countries, the trade show portion of the event was a big deal by bioenergy standards as well. It featured over 200 exhibiting companies that showed their wares and technology to over 5,500 visitors. Here’s a smattering of what stood out to Canadian Biomass. PELLETS FOR EVERYMAN World Bioenergy 2008 boasted several exhibitors with pelletizing options for just about anyone with access to wood fibre and a local market, from small remanu- facturers and flooring plants to sawmills with a little extra sawdust and a need to diversify revenue streams. Shown is one of several compact pellet mills from Swed- ish supplier Morums Mekanisko AB. It makes 50 kg of pellets per hour, dumped automatically into waiting bags. The robust machine is easy to set up and start, and is small enough to be set up in any corner. Show staff told Canadian Biomassthat sawdust or shavings with a moisture content (MC) of 18% or less will work, suiting it to any operation using or making dry wood products. Biopress AB is another Swedish outfit making some smaller complete pellet systems, from the Biopress 150 (150 kg/hr) to the Biopress 800 (800 kg/hr). The ideal raw material is sawdust or shavings with an MC below 15%, although the company works with a Czech company that supplies saw dust driers from 200 to 1,000 kg/hr, and Biopress offers a total turnkey pellet mill suited to your needs. The supplier also makes what it calls a “factory in a box” – a complete turnkey mill in three mobile containers. www.biopress.se. CRUSH IT, CHIP IT Options for harvest slash recovery include compactors (top) and chipping systems (middle). Above is a Mus-Max Wood Terminator 10. The 12-knife disc chipper is mounted on a used Valmet 6WD forwarder. While nimble, with a 600-hp John Deere engine it is still all business. NOT AT ALL STUMPED Slash above the ground or stumps below – Itʼs all marketable biomass here. Stumps here get their own lifting and crushing attachments, like this Jenz Woodcracker R900 from Germany. The company has a full line of grinders and screens as well for the biomass market. www.jenz.de. CanadianBIOMASS 29
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