$ECTH Bulk Biomass Opportunity - Torrefied Wood Pellets
When sawing wood into building products, shavings or waste wood is produced as a byproduct (i.e., saw dust). Left alone it degrades, releasing some of the stored carbon and methane into the atmosphere as greenhouse gases, and eventually it returns to soil. While degrading, it also is easily ignites and burns becoming a contributor to air pollution. In the 1970’s, an idea was born to harness the energy in this wood waste in a controlled manner to produce heat as well as electricity. Machinery was developed to densify sawdust into a form (pellets) which burned cleaner and was more easily transported; thus reducing pollution and providing a more cost-effective transportation.
The ability to manufacture and transport biomass products introduces a new source of energy for industry, institutions, and isolated communities. With the advent of global warming and accompanying government mandated environmental initiatives, there is also an opportunity for ecoTECH Energy Group to obtain carbon credits for developing biomass processing facilities. These renewable energy incentives encourage sustainable, environmentally-friendly and naturally occurring fuel alternatives from biomass.
China is relatively rich in biomass energy resources. Five billion tons of biomass could be produced in the country annually (700 million tons of it is from the agricultural sector alone). In rural China, biomass energy consumption represents about 70% of production.
Biomass energy is the only source that has both the property and characteristics of fossil fuel, which means that it can be stored, renewed and transferred. It is less limited by natural conditions. According to where it is found, biomass energy can be correlated to forest biomass, agricultural biomass and aquatic biomass. It can be divided into one-time energy resource and two-times energy resource in the forming process. The former refers to various forest, agricultural crops, grass and aquatic plants that are from photosynthesis. The later refers to biomass energy that is produced indirectly, including animal manure, multiple organic waste, organic waste water, effluent sludge as well as other organic wastes formed in industry and agriculture processing. All this matter contains abundant energy.
The biomass energy resource has many advantages such as greater resource capacity, lower price, less sulphur composition, less ash content and the feature of renewability. However, it also has some unfavorable aspects such as higher water content, lower unit thermal output, large volume, decentralized resource and unsuitable for collection, storage and transportation. These disadvantages can be overcome with proper planning and application of technology. Biomass resources can be used efficiently.
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