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CLEAN GREEN SUPER FUEL FROM ADVANCED ENGINEERING.
Repurposing Carbohydrates
Repurposing Carbohydrates
Bio-structural change on a cellular level
PowerWood’s black pellets are produced by steam explosion, a scientific process that ruptures and disintegrates biomass at cellular level.
Developed by industrial engineers at Valmet, the BioTrac™ pellet plant pressurizes and hydrolyzes waste wood with 240°C steam – before rapid depressurization explodes it into granules.
Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin are separated. Glucose stays in the granules. Soft glue-like lignin is redistributed between them. Pentose sugars are removed and refined into bio-chemicals.
Activated fine black biofuel grain emerges from an endlessly fed loop, capable of running unmanned 24/7, for pelleting into super compact, durable, hydrophobic green biofuel.
A Net Zero Carbon Footprint
A Net Zero Carbon Footprint
Sustainable production for pellet super fuel
Valmet’s BioTrac™ steam explosion pellet plant is carbon-neutral.
Its energy-efficient heat and power system is fuelled by bark chippings from wildfire-damaged dead wood. They provide enough energy for the facility reactor, with surplus to sell to the grid.
Fire-damaged heart and sap wood, harvested in northern Alberta, is pressure exploded into activated, premium biofuel. Its pentose sugars are refined into furfural in a simultaneous process.
Steam explosion produces the market’s most advanced energy-dense black pellet with comparable mechanical strength, water-resistance and energy release to coal. But no pollution.
New Age Energy Generation
New Age Energy Generation
A renewable replacement for fossil coal
Steam exploded advanced pellets are entirely 100% green.
Unlike previous pellets, they need no chemical additives to bind them. Lignin is their natural binder.
The granular powder produced from grinding them is similar to coal. But Valmet’s technology triggers the release of minerals so, unlike coal, burning steam exploded pellets creates little to no slagging or station maintenance downtime.
Steam exploded advanced black pellets can replace up to 100% of fossil coal burned in smaller generating units, and up to 75% of coal burned in utility scale units.
Clean Air from Steam Technology
Clean Air from Steam Technology
Production from a continuous process
PowerWood’s pellet production process creates high calorie organic residue that is ideal for manufacturing durable, water-resistant, low-emission black biofuel pellets and briquettes.
🌳 Valmet’s BioTrac™ plant facilities are fuelled with native bark chippings and waste wood to create power, heat and steam for the process
🌳 Harvested dead and diseased wood is washed and dried before lengthy exposure to 240°C steam in the system’s high pressure reactor
🌳 Hydrolysis forces the release of acetic acid from the organic material which breaks down its cell structures and releases sugars and lignin
🌳 A sudden drop in reactor pressure expels and disintegrates the treated biomass into a granular powder which is enhanced with lignin
🌳 An integrated system refines renewable biochemical furfural from sugars, as a saleable by-product, while the powder mix is heat dried
🌳 The granular biomass is pelletized under huge pressure to create a durable, leading, energy-dense, low-emission replacement for coal
Futuristic Climate-Friendly Biofuel
Futuristic Climate-Friendly Biofuel
From world-leading industrial engineers
From world-leading industrial engineers
World-leading industrial engineering company Valmet developed its innovative BioTrac™ continuous steam explosion process to produce best-in-class biofuel.
It creates an opportunity for upgrading low-grade, low-cost organic materials into a premium biofuel product that replaces coal.
BioTrac™ technology treats woody biomass with high-pressure steam, then rapidly depressurises it, breaking down fibres to create highly-compact, water-resistant, energy-dense black pellets.
PowerWood Canada Corp partners with Valmet to leverage its industrial engineering expertise and to offer a sustainable, logistics-friendly viable alternative to fossil coal.
Switch out coal. Drop in pellets. Forget about pollution.
To know more about PowerWood Canada Corp’s black biofuel pellet product, please contact our sales team on +44 (0)1702 662 422 or send an email by visiting our contact page.
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