Is wood the new coal? Some researchers now think so, and they working to turn woodchips into a substitute for coal by using a process called torrefaction that is greener, cleaner and more efficient ...

India has millions of small farms, many an acre or less in size, cultivating rice, wheat, sugarcane, and other staple crops. And twice a year, when the harvest is done, these farms go up in flames.

Torrefaction - the slow roasting of biomass material to improve its energy content - has been touted as part of a solution for the large-scale implementation of bioenergy. The industry says that ...

Researchers in Saskatchewan show that oxidative torrefaction converts canola straw, hemp straw, oat hulls, and wheat straw into coal-like biofuels with heating values up to 29 MJ/kg, far outperforming ...

Briquettes created through torrefaction, produced by NextFuel, can be used in a similar infrastructure to coal. In Joensuu, a city in Eastern Finland often described as the “Forest Capital of Europe,” ...

) announced today that its Joint Venture (JV) partner, Agri-Tech Producers, LLC (ATP) has developed a new and patent-pending process that dramatically reduces the cost of some of the biomass feedstock ...

Biomass torrefaction is a mild pyrolytic pretreatment conducted at temperatures between 200 °C and 300 °C in an inert or oxygen-deficient atmosphere. The process removes moisture and a portion of ...

More biomass could be burned in coal-fired power stations if it was delivered pre-roasted to power stations, according to researchers from Leeds University. Many UK power stations are now burning ...

Slow pyrolysis and torrefaction (a milder form of pyrolysis) are similar methods of thermochemical biomass conversion whereby the biomass degradation reactions take place in the absence of oxygen at ...