Focus on Gear Biomass Boiler Buyers Guide FURNACES & BOILERS ACT BIOENERGy, LLC www.actbioenergy.com Tel: 518-377-2349, Toll free: 1-877-228-2465 ACT Bioenergy manufactures high-efficiency biomass boilers ranging from 150 to 500 kW thermal. Our underfed grate, gasification-type hot water boilers are user-friendly, with automated ignition, feed control, and ash re-moval. High efficiency and exceptionally low emissions are achieved by constant monitor-ing of combustion chamber temperatures, oxygen levels, and pressures, and automatic adjustment of fan speeds and fuel feeding rates to maintain optimal operating conditions. Typical fuels include wood chips, wood pellets, and selected agricul -tural residues. ACT Boilers are ideal for commercial, institutional, and multi-family residential buildings. An ACT boiler project in New York State was recognized as the North American Bioenergy Project of 2011. the price of oil continues to rise and enterprises, institutions, and municipalities look for renewable energy options, bio-mass furnaces and boilers are becoming ever more attractive. Cana-dian Biomass’ listing of biomass boiler manufacturers and suppliers, as well as companies that offer retrofits and contract biomass heat, is a first stop for those looking to determine what’s available in Canada. Thermal options range from about 150 kW to 100 MW , and electrical capacities range from 250 kW to 25 MW . As two-phase process of gasification followed by combustion via a fire-tube boiler, AESI’s scalable applications of fer thermal output between 1 million BTU/h (290 kW) and 20 million BTU/h (6 MW) and power generation between 50 kW and 1 MW electric and more through multiunit staging. The systems are suit -able for agricultural, municipal, industrial, and institutional applications. They fire various fuel types up to 55% moisture content, including wood, agricul -tural residue, industrial process waste, sludges, manures, and MSW. Systems feature automation from fuel reception to ash extraction, remote monitoring, and water-cooled grates. ASI ÉNERGIE www.falmecboiler.com Tel: 418-662-3663 ASI Énergie specializes in thermal plants fuelled by biomass or mu-nicipal solid waste. It has devel-oped a new concept of small, mod-ular, packaged systems that are built and installed, producing up to 5 MW. Its biomass boiler s are designed to burn pellets or woodchips, produc -ing 25 kW to 1 MW (hot water or steam). Hybrid boiler s are designed to pro -duce 100 to 2000 BHP. Cogeneration plants are equipped with fluidized bed combustion technology. ADVANCED RECyCLING EQUIPMENT, INC. /ChALLENGER ENERGy SySTEMS, INC. www.advancedrecyclingequip.com Tel: 814-834-4470, Toll free: 1-800-611-6599 Advanced Recycling Equipment, Inc., located in St. Mary’s, Pennsylvania, manufactures Challenger Biomass Combustion Systems, ranging from 1-million to 60-million BTU (240 kW to 17.6 MW). The systems are capa -ble of burning a wide variety of biomass materials with up to 50% moisture content for energy recovery through hot air, hot water, steam, and cogeneration. Challenger thermal combustion systems offer advanced controls, full automation, and rugged design to ensure long life. The systems are very clean burning. Challenger systems are an ideal fit for greenhouses, production/manufacturing facilities, or any other com -mercial, private, or institutional application. BINDER BOILER SALES USA, INC. www.binder-boiler.com Toll free: 1-888-475-4858 Binder Boiler Sales USA is the Nor th American distributor for Austrian company Binder GmbH. Binder’s water tube boilers range from 150 kW to 10 MW hot water, all ASME and CS cer tified. The step-grate furnaces and underfed pellet boilers range from 150 kW to 3 MW thermal. The systems are suitable for a variety of appli-cations, including greenhouses, schools, municipal buildings, sawmills, and others. They are fuel flexible, burning hog fuel or wood chips up to 50% in moisture content, as well as pellets made from wood or agricultural residues. Container-ized pellet boiler and wood chip systems ranging from 150 kW to 1 MW are available. Cogeneration capacity is at the research and development stage, with plans for 300 kW thermal and 30 kW electric output from a steam boiler with small-scale steam turbine. Several Binder pellet boilers, 300 kW to 1.5 MW in capacity, have been installed in the Nor thwest Territories. Binder of fers biomass heat and steam contracts in Nor th America with our par tner Wood4heating Inc. (see listing). ALTERNATIVE ENERGy SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL, INC. (AESI) www.aesintl.net Tel: 316-201-4143 AESI delivers commercially proven modular, plug and play biomass energy systems that per form reli-ably from day one and require low opera-tion and maintenance attention. Using a Canadian BIOMASS 23
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