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The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) and Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences (Manomet) have released the results of a six-month study that began last December to answer some critical questions about using forest wood for energy in Massachusetts. The Manomet-led study, commissioned by DOER last fall, was conducted by an eight-member team of policy and science experts from several organizations.
Some of the major questions addressed by the study include:
1. How much wood is available from forestland for biomass energy in Massachusetts?
2. What might be the impacts of increased biomass harvests on forest ecosystems?
3. What are the carbon accounting (climate science) implications of using forest biomass for energy?
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 The Larox progress cavity pump is designed for the most demanding industrial slurry and paste pumping applications. Due to its unique features and patented design, high efficiency and high pressure are achieved with a shorter construction. It also requires less energy, is easy to install, and requires less maintenance resulting in very low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). With many innovative and patented features the new pump efficiency is significantly higher compared to conventional progress cavity pumps. It is also easy to install, saves power and maintenance time, offers longer servicing intervals with better pumping availability over a wide temperature and pressure range. The precise Evenwall 3D-technology with two-lobe rotor geometry allows for a rigid and tighter pumping unit compared to conventional progressive cavity pumps. All Larox progressive cavity pumps have a smaller interference between the rotor and stator reducing friction, with much lower starting torque and significantly higher pumping efficiency.
Larox Flowsys Inc.
www.larox.fi/flowsys
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Calnetix Power Solutions (Calnetix) announced a new revenue stream for organizations whose machinery and industrial processes generate low-temperature waste heat. Calnetix estimates that two-thirds of the fuel burned to generate power is lost as heat. Its new range of Waste Heat Power Generation machines can turn heat generated by small-scale reciprocating engines (such as landfill gas engines), biomass boilers, turbines, and industrial processes (including incinerators and processing plants) into electricity, which can then either be re-used or sold back to the grid. This is a proven technology that adds additional revenue streams with few variable costs to all kinds of manufacturers, agricultural waste sites, mills, landfill sites, and any other industrial process that generates waste heat at temperatures higher than 121ºC.
Calnetix Power Solutions
www.calnetixps.com
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 Briquettes and fuel pucks are the intelligent alternative to pellets: less capital intensive, lower operational costs, and higher densification of the biomass. Di Più Srl offers 30 years of experience in the design and manufacture of heavy duty mechanical briquetting presses, and provides full support to design, supply, install, service and parts in North and Central America. Highly dependable, these presses reach pressures up to 36,000 psi. Briquettes and fuel pucks can be made from wood, as well as wood waste, paper, cardboard, agricultural and energy fibers, nuts and grain shells, MSW, RDF, water treatment plants solids, coffee grinds, and much more. Briquetting, or compressing into pucks, make these materials ready for the energy markets.
Sunomi LLC
www.sunomi-llc.com
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