How to use biomass for a closed-loop economy?

Circular Economy and Biomass Combustion

Due to rising energy costs and limited availability of some energy fuels in the European Union related to the Green Deal, e.g. gas or coal, biomass is becoming a strategic energy fuel. For many companies, the energy transformation of the European Union is a real challenge because they use heat or cogeneration technology from gas or liquid fuels and must quickly switch to alternative fuels or biomass. Especially since the European Union has ambitious goals to achieve a circular economy, reduce CO2 and improve the carbon footprint.

What is a circular economy?

A circular economy aims to fully use the company's own resources to achieve full energy independence and fully optimize the company's resources, which can significantly reduce its operating costs. Biomass therefore ideally fits into the principles of the closed-loop economy because having its own resources gives us full energy independence and drastically reduces the costs of generating heat energy and, in the case of cogeneration from biomass, heat and electricity.

And what if the company does not have its own biomass?

Firstly, it can always be obtained, e.g. Viessmann has a plantation of energy plants, which it cuts every year and processes into wood chips for burning in biomass boilers. This gives a 100% reduction in heating costs and full energy independence. If we do not have space to plant energy plants, we can commission them to a farm in the area. We can also obtain cheap energy fuel in the form of sawdust or wood chips from furniture or carpentry factories, which can then be burned in dedicated biomass heating boilers. Finally, we can also burn our own biomass or wood waste in specially designed waste boilers, which our company has been producing for years.

How to use biomass for a closed-loop economy?

Forest biomass, biomass from energy plants or agricultural biomass is a cheap energy fuel that we can burn effectively in the heating and heating devices we produce. How to use biomass for a closed-loop economy? We can use it to generate free thermal energy for heating halls and factories or to supply technological heat, steam generation or drying. In the case of using cogeneration devices, we can also generate cheap electricity from biomass

How to achieve full energy independence in a company?

To achieve full energy independence in a company, you need to plan the use of all company resources well to achieve a closed-loop economy cycle, i.e. zero waste! Zero waste means rational waste segregation and processing, but also their disposal, and not necessarily with external suppliers. Each company can dispose of and thermally process its own waste on the premises of the plant, obtaining not only free thermal energy but also reducing the carbon footprint. This was achieved thanks to our industrial boilers for waste disposal.

How to reduce the carbon footprint?

 Reducing the carbon footprint is already a necessity for many companies. It should be remembered that through thermal waste disposal and biomass combustion, we significantly reduce the carbon footprint because the energy obtained from biomass is not only neutral for CO2 emissions, but also the ashes from combustion are fertilizers for enriching the soil.

How to heat with biomass effectively and cheaply?

To effectively heat biomass, i.e. simply burn it or thermally process it, we need solid, dedicated heating devices, and our company has been offering such for years. Biomass is not homogeneous and we have many of its resources, e.g.: wood chips, sawdust, agro, straw, miscanthus, energy plants, pomace, production residues, grain, grain or wood. Therefore, to use these fuels for energy, we need premium heating systems that are able to burn various fuels and renewables with different fractions, moisture and calorific value. The fuel calibration itself is very important because there are many devices on the market, only for a given type of calibrated biomass - changing the fuel to another simply will not cope with it. For years, our company has specialised in burning uncalibrated forest and agro biomass, thanks to which our devices provide 100% energy independence to our customers, such as: the wood industry, sawmills, factories, hotels, public utility companies, waste processing companies.

How to effectively use biomass to improve the energy balance of your company?

Burning biomass in your company will reduce heating and energy recovery costs, but will also improve the energy balance of the entire company. Reducing the carbon footprint, low-emission economy, reducing CO2 emissions are the current challenges facing many companies. Biomass, hydrogen, waste are excellent sources of cheap and often free energy that can significantly improve the energy balance of your company and its energy independence. Mobile heating systems for waste and biomass, cogeneration from biomass and waste are just a fragment of our company's offer, which we can provide you with. We have hundreds of references of our industrial facilities throughout Europe.