Within the IEA Bioenergy Technology Collaboration Programme, Task 32 Biomass Combustion works on further expansion of the use of biomass combustion for heat and power generation. Task 32 puts special emphasis on small scale heating units and medium to large scale CHP plants as well as co-firing biomass with coal in traditional coal-fired boilers. This is done by generating and disseminating information on technical and on non-technical barriers and anticipated solutions.
News and Highlights
Webinar: “Residential Wood Combustion – Towards Low Emission Systems”.
On 6th May 2021, IEA Bioenergy held a webinar titled “Residential Wood Combustion – Towards Low Emission Systems”. Wood combustion plays a large role for residential heating in many countries. However, inadequate knowledge, poor design of appliances, unrealistic test...
The 6th Central European Biomass Conference
The 6th Central European Biomass Conference was a forum for users, enterprises, researchers, developers, policymakers and distributors to share their knowledge in the field of bioenergy. The conference was held from the 22.-24th of January, 2020 in the Messe Congress...
Recent Events
IEA Bioenergy Webinar – ‘Biomass Pretreatment – Options to Diversify the Resource Base’
IEA Bioenergy invites you to participate in an international webinar entitled, “Biomass Pretreatment – Options to Diversify the Resource Base”. This webinar will feature five carefully curated case studies presented by the following speakers: Michael Wild, Évelyne...
International Workshop: Future perspectives of bioenergy development in Asia, 5-7 Sept 2018
Many East and South East Asian countries see rapid development in the use of both liquid and solid biomass for modern bioenergy. Apart from using domestic biomass, Japan and South Korea have started to import large volumes of wood pellets for co-firing with coal from...
Latest Publications and Reports
Inventory of national strategies for reducing the impact on air quality from residential wood combustion – Summary
Summary of the IEA Bioenergy Task 32 report "Inventory of national strategies for reducing the impact on air quality from residential wood combustion".
Combustion of wood chips and grain residues for process heat supply in the largest bakery in Switzerland
This publication is one of the five case studies for the inter-task project 2020 on Bioenergy for High Temperature Heat in Industry. Read more about the inter-task project and download the other case studies and our policy report on high temperature heat in industry...
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