PowerPellet Burn Test
Fireside performance and mercury emission evaluations of PowerPellet-Coal blends.
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Cost Comparison of PowerPellets
PowerPellets present a promising opportunity to generate cost-effective electricity using renewable crop waste.
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Charateristics of Biomass
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Heat Content -- 7,283 BTUs/lb (HHV) |
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Composition (% of mass) |
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Moisture |
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7.90 |
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Ash |
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9.05 |
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Volatile |
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63.40 |
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Fix Carbon |
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19.70 |
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Sulfur |
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0.18 |
Mineral Analysis of Ash (%)
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Phosphorous Pent Oxide |
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24.80 |
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Silicon Dioxide |
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18.00 |
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Ferric Oxide |
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1.85 |
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Aluminum Oxide |
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2.56 |
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Titanium Dioxide |
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0.16 |
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Manganese Dioxide |
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6.93 |
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Calcium Dioxide |
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21.20 |
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Magnesium Oxide |
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2.92 |
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Potassium Oxide |
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20.80 |
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Sodium Oxide |
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0.48 |
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Sulfur Trioxide |
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2.56 |
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Barium Oxide |
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0.16 |
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Strontium |
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0.08 |
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Undetermined |
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0.80 |
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Non-food biomass is essential to achieving two of the 21st century's most important goals: liberation from fossil fuels and environmental sustainability. Biomass can be used as energy in multiple, large, worldwide markets many of which have an immediate need for a renewable, low-carbon alternative:
- Power Generation
- Coal-fired power plants; pellets simply added to the coal
- No change to material handling; minimal retrofitting
- Heat & Power for Industry & Institutions
- Manufacturing, ag processing, hospitals, universities, military bases, etc.
- Bio-refining
- Cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels
- Bio-chemicals
- Petrochemical substitutes
- Residential Heating
- Stover PowerPellets™ for pellet stoves
Next Step addresses the key operational issues that have thus far prevented biomass from becoming a mainstream source of clean, renewable energy and bio-chemicals:
- Next Step works with farmers and other biomass owners to secure long-term, price-predictable supplies. Next Step knows that without the whole-hearted buy-in of the American farmer, the full potential of biomass will never be achieved.
- Next Step employs proprietary processes to collect biomass and convert it into dense, dry pellets -- PowerPellets™ -- that ship and store like grain.
By focusing on the contracting, harvesting, collection, processing, storage, and transport of biomass, Next Step's team of seasoned agri-business executives and agri-industry technologists is working to solve America’s – and the world’s – pressing environmental and energy problems by making the promise of biomass a reality.
To learn more about our solutions, click here.
Click here to contact Next Step about contracting for your supply of biomass.
Click here to contact Next Step about using PowerPellets to generate electricity, to provide industrial heat & power, or, as a feedstock for cellulosic biofuels or bio-chemicals.
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Profit From Stover
Click Here to learn how your farming operation can profit from stover.
Commodity Ticker
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Price† |
Change |
High |
Low |
| Light Crude |
73.91 |
0.00 |
87.00 |
65.95 |
| Gasoline |
1.92 |
+0.0325 |
2.41 |
1.63 |
| Ethanol |
1.74 |
+0.02 |
1.74 |
1.71 |
Energizing Reads
Biofuel Deployment Study
A joint study by Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors speculates that non-food crop resources (with help from corn) could sustainably replace nearly a third of US gasoline use by the year 2030...
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Biofuels vs. Biomass Electricity
Findings show that turning biomass into electricity is more beneficial than
turning it into transportation fuels.
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Driving on Biomass
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