Wood Bioenergy » Tennessee http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog a Hatton-Brown publication Mon, 21 May 2012 16:42:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 UT Holding Wood Pellet Seminar, Webinar http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/2011/ut-holding-wood-pellet-seminar-webinar/ http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/2011/ut-holding-wood-pellet-seminar-webinar/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:45:06 +0000 Web Editor http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/?p=556 The University of Tennessee Center For Renewable Carbon is holding a seminar and simultaneous webinar on wood pellet manufacturing in the southeast on Thursday, August 18 from 9am to 12pm (EST). The seminar will include presentations by an equipment manufacturer and a hardwood pellet producer. There will also be discussions of the markets for pellets and environmental issues. The event is free and open to all who are interested.

Persons interested in participating in the online webinar (video/audio streaming via internet) or attending in person on campus should reply via email in order to receive the webinar link and more details.

Please respond with questions or RSVP to Daniel Reed at: danielreed@tennessee.edu

Program Outline
9:00 Welcome & Introductions
Adam Taylor – University of Tennessee
Ed Cesa – Wood Education and Resource Center

9:15 Pellet Making 101
Jim Robbins – Jim Robbins and Associates, Inc.

10:00 Getting Into The Wood Pellet Business: A Case Study
Paul Stringer – Somerset Wood Pellets

10:45 Break
Coffee and snacks

11:00 Environmental Aspects
Daniel Reed – University of Tennessee

11:30 Markets and Marketing
Chris Knowles – Oregon State University
Daniel Saloni – North Carolina State University

12:00 Wrap-Up & Lunch

]]> http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/2011/ut-holding-wood-pellet-seminar-webinar/feed/ 0 ClearFuels Plans Biorefinery for Tennessee http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/2010/clearfuels-hughes-hardwood-to-build-biorefinery-in-tennessee/ http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/2010/clearfuels-hughes-hardwood-to-build-biorefinery-in-tennessee/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:54:09 +0000 Web Editor http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/?p=245 ClearFuels Technology, based in Hawaii, has partnered with Hughes Hardwood to build a biorefinery in Collinwood, Tennessee, which will produce diesel, naphtha, and electricity using wood products.  The project is projected to break ground in 2011 and open in 2013 or 2014.  Once open, it is planned to employ 50 workers.

ClearFuels has plans to develop in other places across the Southeast.  By 2015, ClearFuels hopes to have built four more biorefineries in the U.S. in addition to the one being planned for Tennessee.

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