Corrosion is a threat any time you have a piece of equipment made of metal. There are various types of corrosion, but all can wreak havoc on an essential piece of equipment – especially one that regularly comes in contact with gases and liquids like a boiler system. Boilers are… Read More
For decades, the only feasible way to test plant equipment during the design and engineering process, before installation and operation, was scale model testing. This process involved creating a model of the equipment being designed, to scale, and then in a lab setting, test the design in conditions similar to… Read More
In what comes as good news for the biomass industry, the amount of biomass fuel produced in the United States is growing – a trend that could increase well into the future thanks to global demand. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, biomass fuel producers in the U.S. produced… Read More
Southern Field Maintenance and Fabrication Buys Environmental Elements from Delta Ducon LLC Southern Field is a wholly owned subsidiary of ProcessBarron Arden, NC ‒ May 17, 2018 ‒ Southern Field is pleased to announce the asset purchase of the Environmental Elements (EEC) business line from Delta Ducon LLC…. Read More
Dust collectors are vital parts of plants in the cement & lime, biomass, power, pulp & paper, iron and steel, textile, and mining industries. Without them, dust will accumulate and cause serious problems with your plant’s ID Fan equipment and the final product (if applicable). Mechanical dust collectors in and… Read More
Recently, the U.S. Senate confirmed Andrew Wheeler, a former lobbyist for the coal industry, as the second-highest ranking official in the EPA, in a move that makes the agency even more friendly to Big Coal. Now the deputy EPA administrator, Wheeler comes to the agency after a stint as the… Read More
The 2018 Farm Bill has been introduced by the House Agriculture Committee, beginning a possibly controversial process to pass legislation that could impact the biomass industry. Earlier this year, over 200 trade associations and companies associated with agriculture and energy sent a letter to the House Ag Committee expressing their… Read More
Biomass has definitive carbon benefits over coal, which isn’t debated. But what many in the industry may not understand is the carbon benefit biomass has over natural gas. Last year, the Biomass Power Association released a study that explored the carbon produced by a forest residue-based biomass plant versus a… Read More
