Manual For Bio-fuels
Manual For Biofuels
Koostas: Margus
Mäe
Introduction
This book told me a lot of practical uses of solid biofuels and peat compustion
technologies in estonia and baltic sea countries.
The hole technological chain from production to flue gas cleaning is brought to reader
´s.
Also the energy policy and reguierment for users is shown.
Properties of boifuels and peat
In the boiler plants of Baltic Sea countries a
wide range of various woodbased fuels
are burned. To some extent also straw and
other biomass based fuels are used. All
these fuels are considered as renewables
and according to the international
agreement the CO2 emitted by the
combustion of these fuels is not listed as a
greenhouse gas.
Wood, in particular the shell of wood cells,
consists mainly from cellulose, lignin and
hemicellulose. Due to the high carbon and
hydrogen content, the lignin has higher
calorific value than cellu...