India has millions of small farms, many an acre or less in size, cultivating rice, wheat, sugarcane, and other staple crops. And twice a year, when the harvest is done, these farms go up in flames.

Torrefaction - the slow roasting of biomass material to improve its energy content - has been touted as part of a solution for the large-scale implementation of bioenergy. The industry says that ...

) announced today that its Joint Venture (JV) partner, Agri-Tech Producers, LLC (ATP) has developed a new and patent-pending process that dramatically reduces the cost of some of the biomass feedstock ...

More biomass could be burned in coal-fired power stations if it was delivered pre-roasted to power stations, according to researchers from Leeds University. Many UK power stations are now burning ...

Biomass torrefaction is a mild pyrolytic pretreatment conducted at temperatures between 200 °C and 300 °C in an inert or oxygen-deficient atmosphere. The process removes moisture and a portion of ...

Yet much of it is burned or discarded, releasing greenhouse gases and wasting potential value. The new review explains how torrefaction, a mild heating process performed at roughly 200 to 300 degrees ...

In Connecticut, New Energy Risk announced the expansion of its existing partnership with Yilkins, a developer and producer of proprietary modular equipment for biomass upgrading. The expanded ...

Slow pyrolysis and torrefaction (a milder form of pyrolysis) are similar methods of thermochemical biomass conversion whereby the biomass degradation reactions take place in the absence of oxygen at ...