Abstract
The largest consumption of biomass-based fuels occurs in the chemical
forest industry, which in 1997 covered 69% of its fuel demand by wood based
fuels from its own processes and 7% with peat and other wood fuels.The forest
indusry's share of biomass-based fuels consumtion (7 Mtoe) in the whole
country was slightly over 60%.The other large consumers of biomass are
district heating and other process industries.Wood fuels include in Finland
forestry fuels, industrial by-products and recycled wood fuels.Competitiveness
of forestry fuels (branches, crown mass, small diameter trees and other
low-quality small trees unsuited for industrial processing, by-products of
commercial logging, and pre-commercial thinnings of forests) has improved
significantly and the use of forestry fuels is increasing rapidly.Biomass is
very seldom the only fuel of the boiler because of the limited resources but
they are typically co-fired with coal, peat, sludges and other waste
fractions.The capacity of wood-based power generation is more than 1000 MW in
cogeneration plants.Technical concepts are described and long-term experience
on co-combustion of wood in fluidized bed boilers of cogeneration plants are
presented.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 4th Biomass Conference of the Americas |
| Subtitle of host publication | Biomass, A Growth Opportunity in Green Energy and Value-added Products |
| Place of Publication | Oakland, USA |
| Publisher | Pergamon Press |
| Pages | 1293-1297 |
| Volume | 2 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-008-043-019-5 |
| Publication status | Published - 1999 |
| MoE publication type | B3 Non-refereed article in conference proceedings |
| Event | 4th Biomass Conference of the Americas - Oakland, United States Duration: 29 Aug 1999 → 2 Sept 1999 |
Conference
| Conference | 4th Biomass Conference of the Americas |
|---|---|
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Oakland |
| Period | 29/08/99 → 2/09/99 |
Keywords
- biomass
- bioenergy
- biofuels
- combustion
- cofiring
- Finland
- energy production
- power generation
- electric power
- power plants
