Task 32: Biomass Combustion

Task 32: Biomass Combustion

Workshop on Development of torrefaction technologies and impacts on global bioenergy use and international bioenergy trade, Graz, Jan 2014

International workshop on 


Development of torrefaction technologies and
impacts on global bioenergy use and
international bioenergy trade

Friday , 17 January 2014,
14.00
– 18.10


Central European Biomass Conference (CEBC), Stadhalle, Graz, Austria

Task 32:
Biomass combustion and co-firing

 Task 40:
Sustainable International Bioenergy trade


Workshop rationale and aim


Torrefaction is an interesting pre-treatment technology for biomass before pelletisation and/or combustion. It is a thermo-chemical process for the upgrading of biomass that is usually run at temperatures ranging from 250 to more than 300°C under the exclusion of oxygen and at ambient pressure.

Task 32, in co-operation with Task 40 andthe EU SECTOR  project organised a workshop on torrefaction

as a parallel session within the Central European Biomass Conference 2014 in Graz, Austria.

The presentations can be downloaded below. A summary of the presentations and conclusions of the round table discussion is available here.

14:00
Task 32 Opening,

Jaap Koppejan, IEA Bioenergy Task 32, Enschede, The Netherlands
14:10
IBTC/Task 40 International overall view of developments in the torrefaction
sector Michael Wild, Internat. Biomass Torrefaction Council,
Brussels, Belgium
14:30
Densification of torrefied materials, Wolfgang Stelte, Danish Technological
Institute, Taastrup, Denmark
14:50
Characteristics of torrefied products and their dependence on process conditions
Ute Wolfesberger-Schwabl, OFI Technologie & Innovation GmbH,
Austria
15:10
Advantages and
drawbacks for international trade of torrefied products
Mark Beekes, KEMA Nederland BV, Arnhem, Netherlands
15:30
First experiences from large-scale combustion and co-firing tests with refined
biomass fuels Nader Padban, Vattenfall, Stockholm, Sweden
15:50 Coffee break
16:20
Andritz torrefaction technologies and summary of pilot plant operation
in Austria and Denmark Klaus Trattner, Andritz AG, Graz,
Austria
16:40 River Basin
Accelerating the adoption of second generation solid biomass
Andy Piers, River Basin Energy, Highlands
Ranch, CO, USA
17:00
AREVA’s pathway to an industrially-proven torrefaction process
Hervé Chauvin, Areva, Paris, France
17:15 The way forward
for technology suppliers, project developers, consumers,
discussion led by Sandy Ferguson
18:10 Closing by
Chairperson