Heat-based phytosanitation is a technology that can fill the void that chemical sanitation leaves for non-pelleted forms of woody biomass.

A biomass pretreatment system will be delivered to Praj Industries’ second-generation bio-refinery project in India. Valmet will manufacture and supply the system.

Supplementing the use of coal with biomass — a woody or energy crop — has become desirable in the production of electricity for a number of reasons.

The global industrial biomass boiler market is expected to reach US$ 193.1 billion by 2025, according to a report from Transparency Market Research.

A third poultry litter-fueled boiler, commissioned for Prestage Farm’s turkey operations in Clinton, N.C., marks the first poultry-litter-fueled boiler in the United States, says its manufacturer.

Though tumbling oil prices have provided a welcome boon to some — certainly, consumers appreciate the return to relatively low gas prices when they pay at the pump — they have had a dampening effect on oil and gas production and renewable energy investments.