Sentences with phrase «wood pellets from»

Recently opened by Green Circle Bio Energy, the 225 acre plant will manufacture wood pellets from Southern Yellow Pine and ship them via train to Panama City, from where they will be shipped to the EU.

It is a leading US producer of wood pellets from fallen limbs, tree tops, lumber mill waste, but mostly, farmed pine trees.

Half of its six 650 megawatt (MW) generators have been converted from coal to burn wood pellets from America.

After five months of reporting, John Upton and others at Climate Central have put together a compelling and infuriating package on the growing flow of wood pellets from the Southeast, many from hardwood forests, to European power plants, where the result is touted as carbon - neutral energy and helps country's meet emissions targets — at least on paper.

Pellet cookers use a power - driven auger to feed compressed wood pellets from a hopper into a burn pot that produces heat (and smoke) inside the cooking chamber.

Not exact matches

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

2012 might not look so good from P&L as French building activity is very low, but company invested a lot into wood pellet production.

Pellet cookers need to use «food grade» pellets, not the less expensive (and more available) heating pellets that are made from a variety of wood that is often recycled scraps.

Stainless steel pellets fired from an air gun and moving at 30 meters per second easily busted through a typical wooden plank, but got lodged in a stack of densified wood sheets with the same total thickness.

The German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) still encourages such usage until 2019, e.g. by subsidizing the generation of heat from wood energy with feed - in tariffs or by granting investment subsidies for heating installations such as wood pellet or wood chip heating systems.

As a result, wood pellet exports from the United States nearly doubled in 2013, the Energy Information Administration reports.

The seafloor around and under these bundles was carpeted with tiny wood chips and fecal pellets from wood - boring clams, as well as bacteria and fungi that help decompose this organic matter.

To start using the grill, pour wood pellets into a hopper (pellets are usually are made from compressed sawdust).

Cozy «n Fresh by Planet Wise is made from 100 % kiln - dried southern yellow pine pellets with wood carbon.

There are many commercial beddings made from wood shavings and pellets made from wood, alfalfa, pecans, sawdust, corncob, walnut, and recycled newspaper.

I have used wood pellet litter from the hardware store in the past with young cats and they had no problems learning to use it.

Wood or paper pellets, or litters made from aspen or other safe wood products, on the other hand, can be great for birds as they are non-toxic and will stay in the tray.

Natural Wood Clumping Litter is made from natural wood material in a soft, ground pellet form.

Litter products made from agricultural and industrial byproducts include pellets made from straw, aspen wood and bark, and various products made from paper fibers.

Gentle Touch Pet Products are made from a 100 - percent all - natural Aspen wood pellet that has superior absorbency, and is fragrance and chemical free.

Most are made from compressed sawdust and other wood waste, though some stoves can also take wood, recycled paper waste, and biomass pellets.»

Pellet stoves can be a greener alternative to traditional wood stoves and fireplaces: «Pellet stoves pollute so little that they don't require certification from the EPA, they create no creosote (chimney fire fodder), and fall well within clean air standards.

Part two shows that, contrary to some industry claims, the brunt of the wood in pellets is from hardwood trees, not scrap and waste.

That hasn't stopped Europe from claiming to cut its carbon footprint, at least on paper, by cutting and burning trees — and increasingly doing so with wood pellets exported from the Southeastern United States.

We build our facilities in locations where competition from other wood users, including other pellet producers, does not cause undue pressure on forest growth and biodiversity.

Enviva claims that it produces wood pellets only from low - grade wood resources such as chips, bark, sawdust by - products, treetops, branches, and other forestry debris remaining after the tree trunks from commercial forests have been shipped for construction material.

Recent investigation of the largest pellet producer in the US, Enviva, revealed that they were sourcing wood from remaining pockets of endangered Atlantic coastal forests and then shipping them across the Atlantic to burn with coal.

They have contracted to buy pellets from North and South America and established two wood pellet plants in the southern US to produce 900,000 tons.

Wood pellets are originally produced from wood waste (such as sawdust and shavings), rather than whole logs, and thus can be viewed as an integrated part of forest product manufacturing.

(Sec. 218) Requires the EPA Administrator to establish a program to assist in the replacement of wood stoves or pellet stoves that do not meet specified standards of performance by: (1) requiring such stoves to meet specified performance standards; (2) requiring replaced stoves to be destroyed and recycled and prohibiting such stoves from being sold or returned into active service; (3) providing funds to eligible entities to replace stoves.

Because of loopholes in UK and EU «climate» laws the largest coal power plant is switching from coal to wood pellets sources from the USA.

«November 2012: The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is set up by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment in a bid to encourage businesses to switch from oil or gas to wood pellet boilers.»

But this figure reaches from 36 % for traditional wood stoves to about 80 % for modern wood pellet stoves for residential use.

Pellet stoves and fireplace inserts using pellets for fuel that are exempt from testing by the Administrator but meet the same standards of performance as wood stoves are considered certified for the purposes of this section.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today announced that Clarkson University discovered a new process to eliminate the release of dangerous carbon monoxide gas from wood pellets in storage.

First, new wood - burning power plants being built in the EU, UK, and even Asia burn wood pellets that are largely made from whole trees, not residues.

A 2015 analysis prepared for the American Forest and Paper Association, a trade association, concluded that most wood pellets produced in the U.S., both for domestic burning and for export to the U.K., were prepared from whole trees.

when we lived in Freiburg, wood pellets were generally considered the greenest option, since they were formed from timber waste and burn efficiently.

Repeated calls and emails seeking comment from US - based wood pellet - producing companies such as Maryland - based Enviva and its trade group, the American Forest and Paper Association, went unreturned.

Now, after replacing coal in its boilers with wood pellets shipped from the U.S. South, the Drax Power Station in Britain claims to be the largest carbon - saving project in Europe.

Now, most European biomass pellets are made from sawdust, a byproduct of the wood processing industry, Mr. Zannoni said.

One major finding, right out of the gate: Booth reports that — contrary to a largely accepted view — wood pellets aren't sourced mainly from fallen limbs and lumber waste called residue, but rather from whole trees.

Which makes me a bit torn on this one: While biomass electric generation is certainly a good thing, and anything that gets us (the collective human we) away from burning coal is undeniably positive environmentally, it seems to me that there is a better solution than processing wood pellets in Florida and shipping them to the EU to generate power... Even if it appears from Green Circle's estimate of net energy gain comes out positive.

Timber from a single clear - cut might go to a half - dozen different mills and plants, of which a wood pellet plant is only the newest buyer.

Martin Bentele, Executive officer of the German Wood and Pellet Energy Association (DEPV), notes that 90 % of the wood converted to pellets is waste recovered from Germany's furniture industry.

The article cites data from the Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics indicating that 2.3 million tons of wood pellets serve these installations.

Right now, several companies are producing wood pellets — a form of biomass energy that is burned in European power plants — out of trees from clear - cut forests in the American South.

Over half the wood burnt at Drax comes from the southern United States, including wood sourced by the pellet company Enviva from biodiverse forests.

Most of the wood pellets used by the Drax Power Station come from trees in U.S. forests, such as this one in Sampson County, North Carolina, which was logged in 2015.