Wood gasification in a small firewood boiler refers to the process of converting wood or wood pellets into a combustible gas (syngas) within the confines […]

Wood pellets are made through a manufacturing process that involves compressing dry wood fibers, typically sawdust or wood shavings, into small cylindrical pellets. This process […]

Biomass is considered carbon neutral because the carbon dioxide (CO2) released when it is burned for energy is roughly equivalent to the amount of CO2 […]

Bulk wood pellet heating for automatic wood pellet boilers as well as pellet stoves offers some advantages in cost and ease of use. It’s not for everyone at the moment but for consumers who have a large heat load, there is cost savings and convenience to be found with bulk delivery.

You have a home, workshop or office building and you’d like to get away from oil heating and move to cheaper and renewable wood options. How much heat do you need? What size of boiler will provide you with enough heat?

Wood comes in many forms, species, sizes and origins. Let’s simplify the discussion to just the three wood mainstays: wood chips, wood pellets and logwood (firewood). My other resource posts will detail considerations for each fuel type but for now, let’s consider them broadly.

Modern wood heating appliances are built for high efficiency and low emissions. Each appliance is intended to burn a particular range of wood fuels which don’t include burning peat, pine cones, straw, grass clippings or coffee grounds.

Making the leap into Modern Wood Heating means doing something that isn’t yet mainstream. System components are different from conventional fossil fuel boilers and can sometimes be more expensive. It’s important to understand the costs and to see that over the life of a system, Modern Wood Heating offers big savings.

Bulk wood pellets delivered by pneumatic truck can be stored in many acceptable ways. Here is a description of a few of the most common methods.