Miscanthus
1) What is bio mass heating fuel?
Biomass is the collective name for organic material such as trees and agricultural plants. Biomass can be a sustainable source of renewable fuel to be used in a variety of devices to produce energy. The most efficient biomass conversion process is combustion and the energy produced is thermal.
2) Where does it come from?
Bio mass blends are all around us. Residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural wastes can be used to produce bio pellets.
3) How do you process it?
The processing of the many bio mass wastes streams is very simple. The technology is from the live stock feed industry, producing ¼" dia to 5/8" dia pellets that are very easy to handle, store and transport. This process also allows you to blend for consistent BTU'S, moisture and ash percentages.
4) What are the advantages?
Biomass can be a sustainable source of renewable energy that respects all aspects of a "closed loop" process with emissions and contaminations held within desirable or legislated guidelines. With this type of process you are able to obtain consistent fuel which will achieve high efficiencies for your heating source.
5) How do you burn it?
Crone Boilers have become a leading manufacturer and supplier of boilers for the greenhouses industry for more than forty five years. So it's no surprise keeping up with technology that Crone Engineers have developed the Crone Bio-mass Boilers. The foot print is small, there less moving parts with this system as compared to other bio mass systems and the most important part is the pay back of investment is relatively short.
Biomass Fuel
Miscanthus, also called "elephant grass, is a tall perennial grass that has been evaluated in Europe during the past 5-10 years as a new bioenergy crop. Most of the miscanthus cultivars proposed as a commercial crop in Europe are sterile hybrids (Miscanthus x giganteus) which originated in Japan. Miscanthus was first cultivated in Europe in the 1930s.
Miscanthus can be harvested every year with a sugar cane harvester and can be grown in a cool climate like that of northern Europe.
Like other bioenergy crops, the harvested stems of miscanthus may be used as fuel for production of heat and electric power, or for conversion to other useful products such as ethanol.
T.E.G. Can help you sourcing miscanthus plants.