Inventory of National Strategies for Reducing the Impact on Air Quality from Residential Wood Combustion 2025 (click here)
Reduction of air pollution is a major societal goal, and great efforts are currently undertaken. Over the last 30 years, significant progress has been made, but wood combustion remains a significant source of air pollution in the member countries of IEA Bioenergy.
Therefore, this report compiles national approaches concerning emission reduction strategies in the field of residential wood combustion in selected IEA Bioenergy member countries. This 2nd revised and updated edition was also extended; it reflects the view of 10 countries, now including the USA.
Summary from Expert Roundtable: Strategies for Reducing Air Pollutants from Wood Combustion (click here)
Summary from Expert Roundtable held in Fairbanks, Alaska, on 5 October 2023.
IEA Bioenergy Factsheet: Residential solid biofuels combustion (click here)
Residential solid biofuels combustion – continuous improvement over time is the second in a series of factsheets prepared by IEA Bioenergy. These factsheets aim to inform and engage readers by addressing the key issues related to bioenergy, fostering greater awareness of its potential and challenges.
Covering commonly used types of solid biofuels and appliances used in residential heating, the focus is on how efficiency can be improved and emissions lowered, including highlights from the Norwegian SusWoodStoves project.
Low emission biomass combustion in automated boilers for heat and power (click here) and Summary (click here)
Recent advancements in biomass-fuelled heating plants have significantly reduced emissions of particles and NOx, even when using low-grade fuels, thanks to innovations in both primary combustion and secondary emission abatement technologies. Countries have also improved the efficiency of combustion plants using moist fuels by integrating flue gas condensation and heat pumps, especially in district heating systems with lower temperature levels. Task 32 has reviewed these developments, focusing on technical concepts and implications, and compiled a report that outlines the evolution of primary and secondary measures over the past 30 years, featuring recent innovations from Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
Advanced Test Methods for Pellet Stoves (click here) and Summary (click here)
The overall objective of this report is the provision of an overview on different test methods for pellet stoves. These are either already implemented as an official test standard, or (up to now) only used in science as testing procedures to evaluate the performance of such technologies.
Pellet stoves refer to direct room heating appliances which can be categorized in several different technologies. This report focuses on pellet stoves classified according to the European standard EN 14785. In detail, the priority is set on pellet stoves for room heat supply only (warm air).
Workshop report: Residential Wood Combustion (click here)
The report contains the proceedings from the IEA Bioenergy Task 32 Workshop, which was held as part of the Central European Biomass Conference on 23rd January 2020 in Graz, Austria.
The workshop covered highly relevant topics for residential wood combustion: direct heating and central-heating technologies, as well as operational performance and certification methods for high quality products. Additionally, the invited experts highlighted recent developments and future perspectives of advanced control
concepts and secondary emission abatement technologies.
Inventory of national strategies for reducing the impact on air quality from residential wood combustion 2022 (click here) and Summary (click here)
Reduction of air pollution is a major societal goal, and great efforts are currently undertaken. Over the last 30 years, significant progress has been made, but wood combustion remains a significant source of air pollution in the member countries of IEA Bioenergy.
Therefore, this report compiles national approaches concerning emission reduction strategies in the field of residential wood combustion in selected IEA-member countries.
Survey on the present state of particle precipitation devices for residential biomass combustion with a nominal boiler capacity up to 50 kW in IEA Bioenergy Task 32 member countries (click here)
This report is the result of an IEA Bioenergy Task32 project. It has been coordinated and prepared by BIOS BIOENERGIESYSTEME GmbH in cooperation with the Graz University of Technology, Institute for Process and Particle Engineering, Austria.
Biomass Combustion and Cofiring: An Overview (click here)
This overview was prepared by Task 32 on the basis of the collective information and experience of members of the Task. It describes some of the major issues involved in biomass combustion and co-firing technologies for both domestic and industrial use.