April 23, 2014
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Technology
August 28, 2013
Froling Energy’s Versatile Pellet Boiler/Silo Container
Our dealer Froling Energy (www.frolingenergy.com) has built the most versatile container for a pellet boiler system to date. The structure is both the boiler room and silo. The boiler room sits below the approximately 18 ton silo. The room can hold up to a 60kw pellet boiler. The total weight of the container is approximately… Read More »
August 22, 2013
The First Three Fröling TX 150 Wood Pellet boilers are getting ready to go on-line
The first three Fröling TX 150 (500,000Btuh) wood chip/wood pellet boilers are almost ready to go live. The three boilers are located at the Middle and High School in Stowe, Vt. The three boilers will be able to produce up to 1.5 million btuh and will be burning wood pellets for fuel. The fuel is… Read More »
August 22, 2013
The First Three Fröling TX 150 Wood Pellet boilers are getting ready to go on-line
The first three Fröling TX 150 (500,000Btuh) wood chip/wood pellet boilers are almost ready to go live. The three boilers are located at the Middle and High School in Stowe, Vt. The three boilers will be able to produce up to 1.5 million btuh and will be burning wood pellets for fuel. The fuel is… Read More »
May 15, 2013
Using Pellet Boilers with Thermal Storage
Scott Nichols, President Tarm USA, Inc. May 15, 2013 Why use thermal storage with pellet boilers? Wood pellets are refined wood fuel. They are very dry, vary little from manufacturer to manufacturer, and burn consistently. However, the wood in wood pellets retains many characteristics of the raw wood they are comprised of. One of those… Read More »
March 4, 2010
Biomass for your home?
There is a lot of talk and publicity around biomass these days. Much of the discussion centers around ethanol production or utility scale woodchip-fired electrical generation. What, however, do we mean when we are talking about residential biomass? Well, for the most part, we are talking about good old firewood! The second most common biomass… Read More »
July 9, 2009
Lambda Controlled Wood Combustion in Gasification Boilers
Lambda controlled combustion in wood burning boilers combines modern computer processing and control with the ancient use of wood as fuel. The problem: A traditional problem with wood burning is the emission of unburned, yet energy rich gasses as smoke. Burning smoke enhances efficiency and decreases harmful emissions. If wood is heated and turned into… Read More »
June 17, 2009
European Union to North American Wood Boiler Efficiency Conversion
Background(for the technical savvy): Thermal Efficiency For an energy conversion device like a boiler the thermal efficiency is: So, for a boiler that produces 30KW (100,000 Btu/h) output for each 40KW (140,000 Btu/h) heat-equivalent input, its thermal efficiency (n) is 30/40=0.75, or 75%. This means that 25% of the energy is lost to the environment.… Read More »