Biomass Products & Technology

Biodiesel is an emerging alternative fuel with practical applicability for use in diesel engines, gas turbines and industrial continuous combustors. Biodiesel is renewable, carbon-neutral from an environment standpoint and sulfur-free. But one drawback ...

Water is important to most ethanol producers, but to some it is critical. Comparing water requirements with available water is important in designing a plant, and deciding where to build it.

This paper discusses examples of successful water ...

Sherborne Sensors, an ISO9001:2008 and AS9100B certified global leader in the design, development and manufacture of inclinometers, accelerometers, force transducers, load cells, rotary encoders, instrumentation ...

Novozymes, a producer of biofuel enzymes, launched a new enzyme that makes it possible to produce more ethanol from the same amount of corn. The product, Spirizyme Excel, converts more starch in corn, wheat and ...

Columbia Boilers waste oil-fired boiler line services a diverse range of commercial and industrial applications, including biodiesel production. Waste oil-fired boilers can burn spec and off-spec biodiesel ...

Briquetting systems are available from capacities as low as 500 lbs/hour, where the plants can be localized to the fuel consumption markets, to 100,000 ton +/year plants, due to its modular systems.

Briquetter ...

Hamworthy Peabody Combustion Inc. released the new ECOjet burner, offering ultra-low emissions with little or no flue gas recirculation. Every aspect of the burner, from air entry to gas and oil nozzles ...

Niagara designs and manufactures Wet Surface Air Cooler closed-loop, evaporative coolers and condensers as a cost-effective technology for both heat transfer and water conservation. Used in a wide variety ...

Baker-Rullman Mfg. Inc., a manufacturer of corrugated steel storage bins, hoppers, steel structure and triple-pass rotary drum dryers, has completed construction and testing of a mobile drying unit. The Model ...

The BinMaster SHT or Super High Temperature vibrating rod features a newly developed piezo system built specifically for higher process temperatures up to 482°F (250°C). The SHT is extremely durable due ...

Airlanco E-86 Series Cartridge Filters offer high filtration efficiencies in compact housings. The 8.6” diameter spun-bonded polyester filter cartridges, for which the E-86 is named, are washable and easy ...

Mettler Toledo introduced the new SWD440 dual-ended-beam weigh module. The SWD440 weigh modules offer good value for general-purpose weighing of tanks, hoppers and OEM machinery. They use dual-ended-beam load cells ...

The latest in feeding technology from Jeffrey Rader Corp. is the Centroload Feeder. This product is used in the aggregate industry for feeding cone crushers and Vertical Shaft Impactors (VSI) evenly around the circumference ...

Innovative Magnetic Technologies Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of Permanent Magnetic Solutions for the biomass industry. IMT offers processors a variety of magnetic solutions to tramp metal issues that create ...

Komax released its patented Klean Wall Heat Exchanger, which uses High-Pass technology to ensure the passage of large debris (up to 50 percent of pipe ID) and to keep digester sludge moving turbulently through the ...

OriginOil Inc. announced a new invention that generates hydrogen from living algae, providing an additional energy source from bioreactors. In contrast to previously reported developments in the area, the new ...

WLD-TEC introduced the Flame 100 Safety Burner, a safe alternative for all traditional Bunsen or alcohol burner applications.

The Flame 100 is suited for all flame related applications in the laboratory. ...

Sierra Instruments announced it will offer a 2-year warranty for its entire line of Innova-Switch Flow Level Switches.

Sierra’s Innova-Switch is designed to meet a broad range of performance ...

Avery Weigh-Tronix Inc. introduced the XR 8M and XR 12M, the latest additions to the company’s XR Series of bright-red LED remote displays — designed to convey weight, time/date and other key data in ...

Victaulic, a manufacturer of mechanical pipe joining systems, introduced the Style 296A coupling for fiberglass-reinforced plastic (FRP) pipe. The coupling offers more efficient installation than the alternative ...

Kimberly-Clark Professional’s Jackson Safety brand is introducing two new additions to its trusted Smith & Wesson line of protective eyewear – the 44 Magnum and the Aviator.  

The ...

An abort gate can be located prior to the inlet of a dust collection system to prevent a flame or burning ember from entering the dust collection system. This method is used if extinguishment from your spark detection equipment is not adequate or ...

Emerson Process Management announced the introduction of the Ovation Ethernet Link Controller I/O Module. This flexible, redundant module offers I/O-level Ethernet interface capability that is tightly coupled ...

Endress+Hauser released its line of water sampling solutions to monitor influent and effluent at water/wastewater treatment plants and in industrial process water applications. Other applications include municipal, ...

Emerson Process Management released the latest version of its industry-leading Ovation expert control system, widely used to control power generation and water/wastewater treatment facilities around the ...

Neptune Chemical Pump Co. released its Series 500 Metering Pumps. The Neptune Series 500 pumps feature a Variable Oil By-pass stroke adjustment that enables better valve performance than traditional variable-linkage ...

Dionex released its Water Analysis for a Global Market brochure, which provides an overview of the issues surrounding water quality, global supply, contaminants, emerging concerns, ion analysis and system ...

While ethanol and biodiesel plants are relatively new to the industrial community, they need to comply with operating permits and be able to respond to potential violations. This requires biofuels producers to monitor waste byproducts more closely ...

The HOBO U24 Conductivity Logger is a high-accuracy, cost-effective data logger for measuring conductivity and temperature in streams, lakes and other freshwater sources. Designed to monitor aquifers for saltwater ...

Carbon Sciences Inc. filed the first of a series of patent applications for its highly scalable clean-tech CO₂ based gas-to-liquids fuel technology for transforming a combination of natural gas ...

BinMaster Level Controls introduced the MVL multiple scanner system that integrates multiple point measurement data from two 3-DLevelScanners to cover a wide surface area and provide better inventory accuracy ...

Powerhouse Technology produces replacement nozzles for all major circulating fluidized bed boiler designs. The company also can customize the air hole patterns and nozzle sizes to adapt to a specific application ...

Keith Walking Floor systems are integrated into material handling systems as receiving, storage and metering bins. The Keith DrivOn bin is designed to facilitate the delivery of material directly into ...

Briquettes and fuel pucks are an easy alternative to pellets, since they are less capital intensive, have lower operational costs and higher densification of the biomass. Di Più Srl has 30 years of experience ...

Process and plant engineers will find the ST98L In-Line Mass Flowmeter from Fluid Components International a reliable flow measurement solution for virtually any air or gas mixture in small process line ...