With the arrival of fall, it’s prime operating season for Middlebury College’s biomass gasification plant. The $12 million project, located in a see-through building at the center of campus, went online back in 2009. It provides supplemental steam for heating and electricity to the school’s existing power plant, and cuts the college’s fuel bill in [...]
New Biomass Heating System For Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Smoldering wood chips in oxygen-starved chambers will be used to generate steam heat for most of the buildings at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The new energy-efficient process also provides a market for low-grade wood that loggers would otherwise leave on the forest floor, officials said. The cutting-edge biomass gasification plant replaces four worn-out boilers that [...]