BioMASS update pEllEt standards movE forward The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has signalled its acceptance of the Pellet Fuels Institute (PFI) pellet stan-dards program and supports its use for the New Source Performance Standard for Residential Wood Heaters. The PFI Standards Committee and staff continue to work on the implementation of the new standards program. PFI is continuing discussions with the American Lumber Standards Committee (ALSC) for the ALSC to serve as the pro-gram’s accreditation body. PFI and ALSC met in December 2010 and January 2011 for a formal review of the standards pro-gram documents in an effort to work out the final details of the program structure. Since then, the PFI Standards Committee has been editing program documents and finalizing the structure of the program. Standards program documents are avail-able at www.pelletheat.org. in BriEf... UNBC starts gasifier The University of Norther n British Co-lumbia (UNBC) started its new biomass-fired heating system in November 2010. The Nexterra gasification system will heat all of the university’s core buildings and re d u c e f o s s i l f u e l consumption by ~85%. It joins a campus wood pellet facility that has heated the f o re s t r y l a b s i n c e 2 0 0 9 . U N B C s h a re s the 2010 award for top campus sustain-ability project in North America with Harvard University. Photo: UNBC Q u a l i t y p e l l e t s , g u a r a n te e d . Fo r p e r f e c t p e l l e t s t h e e n t i r e p ro du c tion sys te m mu s t wo r k to gethe r flawle s sly. Buhle r e na ble s to t a l p r o c e s s c o n t r o l by p r ov i d i n g a c o m p l e te p r o c e s s d e s i g n p a c k a g e a n d ke y e q u i p m e n t f o r d r y i n g , g r i n d i n g , p e l l e t i n g , c o o l i n g , bag ging a nd loading. T his, c ombine d with Buhle r’s inte gr ate d a u to m a t i o n s y s te m , u n r i va l e d a f te r s a l e s s u p p o r t a n d t r a i n i n g p r ov i d e s a s e a m l e s s s o l u t i o n , g u a r a n te e d . NL fibre reallocation The gover nment of Newfoundland and Labrador is focusing on two proposals to use fibre that was formerly allocated for the AbitibiBowater paper mill in Grand Falls-Windsor, reports the Farm Focus of Atlantic Canada. Both proposals are said to involve lumber and pellet production. B u h l e r I n c ., 1310 5 12 t h Av e N ., P l y m o u t h , M N 5 5 4 41, 76 3 -8 47-9 9 0 0 b u h l e r. m i n n e a p o l i s @ b u h l e r g r o u p . c o m , w w w. b u h l e r g r o u p . c o m Bulk pellet delivery Maine Energy Systems has developed a fully pneumatic bulk pellet delivery truck. Made in co-operation with Trans Tech Industries of Brewer, Maine, and Tropper Maschinen Und Anlagen of Redl-ham, Austria, the pressurized tank delivers pellets into storage bins at less than four minutes/ton with minimal damage to the fuel. Photo: Maine Energy Systems Fires & explosions It was a bad autumn for fires and explosions at North American pellet and bioenergy plants. Incidents were re-ported at pellet plants in Michigan, New H a m p s h i re , a n d B r i t i s h C o l u m b i a , a n d at a hog fuel pile in Nova Scotia. I n n ov a t i o n s f o r a b e t t e r w o r l d . WWW.CANADIANBIOMASSMAGAZINE.COM MORE BIOMASS NEWS AT Quality_Pellets_CanBio_2011.indd 1 6 Canadian BIOMASS JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011 1/24/2011 8:38:58 AM
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