dkmc
Diamond
- Joined
- Jan 13, 2002
I heard a couple weeks ago that a local plant that
uses steam and hot water for process is converting their NG boilers to Wood Pellets.
They bought a used boiler for $1 Mil and will spend another 3-4 for install. Then it's 18 to 22 tractor trailer loads of pellets -PER DAY- required!
Supposedly will store a 6 months supply (3900+ truck loads) in a silo near the plant.
Now it todays local paper, one of the local hospitals is doing the same thing!
This will be a biomass-gas producer plant, possibly the other industrial plant is the same setup. Units sold by Chiptec Wood Energy Systems, Vermont.
Must be this is somehow less EPA involved, because it seems to me that Coal would have much more
energy density than wood pellets??
And the trucking costs must add an incredible cost to the mix.....
dk
uses steam and hot water for process is converting their NG boilers to Wood Pellets.
They bought a used boiler for $1 Mil and will spend another 3-4 for install. Then it's 18 to 22 tractor trailer loads of pellets -PER DAY- required!
Supposedly will store a 6 months supply (3900+ truck loads) in a silo near the plant.
Now it todays local paper, one of the local hospitals is doing the same thing!
This will be a biomass-gas producer plant, possibly the other industrial plant is the same setup. Units sold by Chiptec Wood Energy Systems, Vermont.
Must be this is somehow less EPA involved, because it seems to me that Coal would have much more
energy density than wood pellets??
And the trucking costs must add an incredible cost to the mix.....
dk