expensive alternatives, cofiring has gained popularity with the electric utility producers. This paper discusses the ‘gaseous … travelling grate boiler, when biomass was cofired with bituminous coal in three proportions of 20%, 40% and 60% by mass. Bagasse …, wood chips (Julia flora), sugarcane trash and coconut shell are the biomass fuels cofired with coal in this study. …

mandates) and location (e.g. biomass availability, infrastructure) variables on the likelihood of using biomass in cofiring …-level renewable energy portfolio standards showed no statistically significant effect on the adoption of cofiring biomass with coal …. Further developments of biomass cofiring in the U.S. northern region are most likely to take place in the Great Lakes region. …

Carbon capture and storage (CCS), when applied to biomass cofiring systems, can remove atmospheric CO2 since the CO2 … that is consumed by the biomass during growth is not released back into the atmosphere. Biomass cofiring can also … oxides (SOx) and mercury. However, biomass fuels are widely variable in composition, particle size, and nitrogen content …

The knowledge of the potentially achievable reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by biomass co-firing is a … develop a methodology by which significant biomass co-firing potentials and subsequent reduced GHG emissions, could be … combination of these figures points out that biomass co-firing could contribute to mitigating 3.4 MtCO2eq in Spain annually. This …

Biomass CCHP (combined cooling heating and power) systems based on biomass combustion have already demonstrated their …

indigenous resources and increase fuel mix diversity. The Irish government has introduced a target of 30% cofiring of peat and … biomass by 2015. This paper assesses the feasibility of achieving this target by calculating the available indigenous biomass … target by combining national resources with imported biomass this is never the least cost option, and as a result the …

Algae cofiring scenarios in a 360 MW coal power plant were studied utilizing an ecologically based hybrid life cycle … were also quantified to assess the sustainability of cofiring scenarios from a holistic perspective. The analysis results … revealed that cumulative mass and ecological exergy consumption were higher for algae cofiring compared to single coal firing …