This presentation formed part of the Farming Futures workshop 'Profitable business in a changing climate: the case for on-farm renewable energy generation.'
2nd December 2009
Andrew Bissell & Richard Jennings, Managing Director Castle Rock Edinvar presented the attached at an event organised by Holyrood Events - Eradicating Fuel Poverty: Delivering Warm Homes.
If you require any further information on this presentation please contact andrew.bissell@sunamp.co.uk or for information on the event please contact zoe@hoyrood.com
Andrew Bissell & Richard Jennings, Managing Director Castle Rock Edinvar presented the attached at an event organised by Holyrood Events - Eradicating Fuel Poverty: Delivering Warm Homes.
If you require any further information on this presentation please contact andrew.bissell@sunamp.co.uk or for information on the event please contact zoe@hoyrood.com
In 2016 Hjallerup District Heating had a Linka straw system installed. The plant will supply the entire area with heat 7 months of the year. The change to biofuel has already reduced the prices for district heating in the area.
Biomass heat and power , Volter CHP, Cogeneration 40 kWe + 100 kWthRado Irgl
The container-packed biomass CHP-plant produces, for example, enough electricity and heat for the annual needs of a farm or an entire small housing estate.
CHP - three main stages:
Gasification of dry wood chips. Gasification reactor is fully automatic and it generates tar-free SynGas.
Gas purification and cleaning. All mineral dust particles are removed by fabric filter. Heat is recovered by heat exchangers and can be used for heation.
CHP unit. Wood gas is fed to a combustion engine. Heat is collected from engine cooling fluid and exhaust fumes. The engine runs a generator that produces clean domestic green electricity. Frequency can be 50 or 60 Hz. Electric power is 28 kW or 40 kW (netto).
http://www.cogenera.si/
Optimising Woodfuel Project Returns through Heat and Power GenerationCLA - East
Presentation given at the CLA's Woodfuel Conference at Doddington Hall on Wednesday 30 October by Dr Andrew Horsley, Business Development Director, Arbor Heat and Power.
Reduce Energy Consumption with LED Lighting, Co-generation, & Wireless Automa...The Brewer-Garrett Company
Energy efficiency in facilities can be achieved by using best practices in LED lighting, co-generation, and wireless automation. This presentation covers the costs and benefits, where these technologies can be applied, and what funding is available to assist with return on investment (ROI). For more information visit www.brewer-garrett.com or call 888-774-9405.
Combined Heat and Power Generation - Commercial Energy Efficiency with Cogene...The Brewer-Garrett Company
www.brewer-garrett.com
Best practices in combined heat and power (CHP) promote commercial energy efficiency. Presented by energy services company Brewer-Garrett.
In 2016 Hjallerup District Heating had a Linka straw system installed. The plant will supply the entire area with heat 7 months of the year. The change to biofuel has already reduced the prices for district heating in the area.
Biomass heat and power , Volter CHP, Cogeneration 40 kWe + 100 kWthRado Irgl
The container-packed biomass CHP-plant produces, for example, enough electricity and heat for the annual needs of a farm or an entire small housing estate.
CHP - three main stages:
Gasification of dry wood chips. Gasification reactor is fully automatic and it generates tar-free SynGas.
Gas purification and cleaning. All mineral dust particles are removed by fabric filter. Heat is recovered by heat exchangers and can be used for heation.
CHP unit. Wood gas is fed to a combustion engine. Heat is collected from engine cooling fluid and exhaust fumes. The engine runs a generator that produces clean domestic green electricity. Frequency can be 50 or 60 Hz. Electric power is 28 kW or 40 kW (netto).
http://www.cogenera.si/
Optimising Woodfuel Project Returns through Heat and Power GenerationCLA - East
Presentation given at the CLA's Woodfuel Conference at Doddington Hall on Wednesday 30 October by Dr Andrew Horsley, Business Development Director, Arbor Heat and Power.
Reduce Energy Consumption with LED Lighting, Co-generation, & Wireless Automa...The Brewer-Garrett Company
Energy efficiency in facilities can be achieved by using best practices in LED lighting, co-generation, and wireless automation. This presentation covers the costs and benefits, where these technologies can be applied, and what funding is available to assist with return on investment (ROI). For more information visit www.brewer-garrett.com or call 888-774-9405.
Combined Heat and Power Generation - Commercial Energy Efficiency with Cogene...The Brewer-Garrett Company
www.brewer-garrett.com
Best practices in combined heat and power (CHP) promote commercial energy efficiency. Presented by energy services company Brewer-Garrett.
biomass boiler to steam turbine to power generationAbhishekBobade4
Biomass boilers represent a sustainable and environmentally friendly approach to heating and energy production. They utilize organic materials such as wood pellets, wood chips, agricultural residues, or even dedicated energy crops to generate heat or electricity. These systems have gained traction as a renewable energy solution, particularly in areas where biomass resources are abundant. In this comprehensive overview, we'll delve into the workings, benefits, challenges, and applications of biomass boilers.
### Introduction to Biomass Boilers
Biomass boilers function similarly to conventional boilers, but with a focus on utilizing biomass fuels instead of fossil fuels like coal, oil, or natural gas. The combustion of biomass materials within these boilers releases energy in the form of heat, which can be utilized for various heating purposes, including space heating, hot water production, or even industrial processes.
### Working Principles
The operation of a biomass boiler typically involves several key stages:
1. **Fuel Feed:** Biomass fuel, such as wood pellets or chips, is automatically or manually fed into the combustion chamber.
2. **Combustion:** Inside the combustion chamber, the biomass undergoes combustion, releasing heat energy.
3. **Heat Transfer:** Heat from the combustion process is transferred to water, steam, or air via heat exchangers.
4. **Heat Distribution:** The heated medium (water, steam, or air) is circulated through a distribution system to provide heat to the desired application.
5. **Emissions Control:** Advanced biomass boilers often incorporate emission control technologies to minimize pollutants released during combustion, ensuring environmental compliance.
### Types of Biomass Boilers
Biomass boilers come in various configurations, including:
1. **Stoker Boilers:** These feature a grate where biomass fuel is fed, allowing for continuous combustion.
2. **Fluidized Bed Boilers:** Utilize a bed of inert material (e.g., sand) to support and burn biomass fuel, offering high combustion efficiency.
3. **Pellet Boilers:** Specifically designed to burn wood pellets efficiently, offering automated feeding and combustion processes.
4. **Gasification Boilers:** Employ a two-stage process involving pyrolysis and gasification of biomass to produce a combustible gas that is then burned in the boiler.
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Make power out of your waste heat - Organic Rankine Cycle Sindhu Maiyya
How to utilize the waste heat generated by pretty much all the processes we engage in. An idea to convert the waste heat into useful power.
A presentation give in the finals of Schenider Electric Go Green in the City Challenge -2012
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
4. Case Study 1: Domestic Log Stove
Low cost
Attractive visual effect
No electricity or water
services needed
Reasonably thermal
efficiency - 60%
Logs easy to access and
cure low cost fuel on a farm
5. Summary
Likely costs and returns
Annual fuel used 1.0 tonnes
Annual heat production 2,000 kW hours
Gross capital cost installed £1,500
Value of heat £160
(8p/kWhr)
Cost of Fuel Little cost
Payback period 10 years
6. Case Study 2: Log Boiler:
Central heating system
Relatively low cost
Buffer tank recommended
Separate plant room needed
Manual fuel loading
Good thermal efficiency -
80%
Logs easy to access and cure
low cost fuel on a farm
Up to 400kW available
Can be adapted for hot air
space heating
7. Summary
Likely costs and returns
Annual fuel used 5.0 tonnes
Annual heat production 12,000 kW hours
Gross capital cost installed £6,000
Value of heat £960
(8p/kWhr)
Cost of Fuel Little cost
Payback period 5‐7 years
8. Case Study 2a: Log Boiler + hot air space heating
Suitable for
workshops and
packing sheds
Manual fed with logs,
broken pallets etc
9. Case Study 3: Domestic/Small business wood
automatic chip system
Provides heat for a central heating
system
Relatively expensive system
Wood chip fuel, grain fuel
Good thermal efficiency 85-90%
Wood chip may be expensive to
provide in small quantities
Wood chip needs to be dry and
graded
Significant manual intervention
and maintenance
10. Summary
Likely costs and returns
Annual fuel used 5.0 tonnes
Annual heat production 12,000 kW hours
Gross capital cost installed £8,000 ‐ £20,000
Value of heat £960
(8p/kWhr)
Cost of Fuel Depends on owner access to fuel
Payback period Variable
14. Summary
Likely costs and returns
Annual fuel used 100 tonnes
Annual heat production 300 MWh
Gross capital cost (Current) £150,000
Income from selling heat PA 17,500
(Charged per sq. ft)
Potential RHI income PA £9,000
(3p/kWhr)
Payback period 8 years
(Current energy costs)
15. Case Study 5: Village: District Heating
South Carlton, Lincoln
18. Summary
Likely costs and returns
Annual fuel used 200 tonnes
(wood chip at 30%)
Annual heat production 550 MW hrs
Current gross capital cost £350,000
Income from selling heat PA £27,500
Potential RHI income PA £16,500
(3p/kWhr)
Payback period 12 years
(Current energy costs)
22. Summary
Likely costs and returns
Annual fuel used 1,200 tonnes
(Wet and dry wood chip)
Annual heat production 3,500 MW hrs
Current gross capital cost £500,000
Value of heat per annum £175,000
(5p/kWhr)
Potential RHI income PA £105,000
(3p/kWhr)
Payback period 2 yrs
(Current energy costs)
23. Combine Heat and Power from Biomass
•Large scale technology; not viable on
small/medium scale.
•Minimum economic scale: 2MWe – 4MW h
•Huge capital cost – must generate power 24/7 to
be viable
•Must have all year round heat demand
•Very few viable scenarios and these are all large
scale industrial.
24. Thank you!
Any Questions?
Rural Energy Ltd
Telephone: 01664 454989
email: richard@ruralenergy.co.uk
www.ruralenergy.co.uk