Biofuel combustion
Symposium on Biofuel Combustion for Residential and Commercial Space Heating
There is rapidly growing interest in renewal fuels as a response to climate change and the increasingly competitive price of biomass fuels as oil prices rise. However, conventional biomass combustion systems produce significant quantities of air pollutants that make them undesirable particularly when considering public buildings such as schools. Thus, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has undertaken a large program of examining the performance of new state-of-the-art gasification systems that had been developed in Europe and are now becoming available in the US. Projects have been initiated to examine conventional and advanced boilers and the results of these projects will be presented. In addition, we solicit reports of studies of improved biomass fuel burners that assess the thermal and emission performance or studies of the performance of alternative biomass fuels such as grass or other pellets in advanced boiler applications.
Session organizers
Prof. Philip Hopke is Bayard D. Clarkson Distinguished Professor, and the Director of the Center for Air Resources Engineering and Science at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY. He studies airborne particulate matter.
Ellen Burkhard, Ph.D is a Senior Project Manager at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority {NYSERDA}, responsible for environmental monitoring and evaluation; air quality; energy and environmental performance of biomass combustion technologies.
Confirmed speakers
Dr. Lisa Rector, Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, Boston, MA: "Comparative Emissions from Boilers <15mmBtu". Prof. Monica Mazurek, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ: "Assessing biomass smoke emissions using levoglucosan ambient concentrations".
