Optimizing processes

Industry, neighborhood communities and District Heating in Spain opt for biomass in search of economic savings and cost control. The latest data indicates that there are more than 14.000 equipment between 50 and 1.000 kW y more than 1.400 that exceed 1 MW thermal power.

More than a thousand computers are installed annually in Spain and boilers for industrial and commercial use capable of generating hot water, thermal oil and steam, as well as hot and cold air generators, dryers, ovens, air conditioners or industrial cold generators that can use biomass as fuel.

Many companies manage their own by-products and value them energetically in ceramics, cement, paper, wood, tobacco, coffee, dried fruit, all kinds of farms and other agricultural products, greenhouses and in the canning industry, among others.


 
On April 28, LASIAN, a national manufacturer of biomass boilers since 1967, held a technical-commercial conference to present the new designs of its Industrial Range boilers:
As a result of the business evolution of Natural Fire, the range of hot air generators by biomass combustion (GNF) is born, focused on using solid biomass from productive waste (pellets, olive pits, almond shells, etc.), in the generation of hot air flows, to be used both in industrial processes and in heating.
On May 17, the Junta de Castilla y León launches the tender for the works to build a 49 MW biomass heat network 25 km long that will supply 30.000 residents of Villa de Prado, Parquesol and Huerta del Rey: “Valladolid West".
After six years manufacturing feed to feed their animalsimalIn an efficient and sustainable way thanks to biomass energy, Grupo Premier Pigs has started work on a new factory in Bujaraloz (Huesca) that will also have a boiler room supplied with forest chips.
In the municipality of Caldes de Montbui (Barcelona) a HERZ firematic 401 biomass boiler supplied by Termosun has recently been installed and will supply energy to the La Lluna municipal nursery school and the El Calderí school. Later it will serve the Bugarai Municipal Pavilion and other nearby facilities. The infrastructure has a 400 kW boiler and a forest chip deposit.
Sugimat is a company associated with AVEBIOM, specializing in the design and manufacture of industrial biomass boilers The reference price of natural gas for the Iberian Peninsula has been rising gradually throughout 2021 and, now, with the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it is increasing by more than 10 times its price a year ago.
The call will be published in the spring of 2022 and will be carried out through an incentive program for private companies and another aimed at the public sector, which will allow the start-up of biomass, solar thermal, geothermal, ambient energy ( aerothermal and hydrothermal) or heating and cooling microgrids of less than 1 MW of power. Once opened, it will be valid until December 31, 2023.
Castilla Termal Hotels is channeling its efforts to achieve carbon neutrality. To achieve this goal, the Solares, Burgo de Osma and Brihuega plants -the latter, under construction- are installing biomass plants, a sustainable heating system based on leftover chips from local sawmills and the remains of nearby forest mass.
The Andamarc geriatric residence, which is located opposite the General University Hospital of Ciudad Real, has a constructed area of ​​9.200 m2, in a newly developed area, in a quiet environment, with spacious and comfortable rooms adapted to its 200 residents, who receive 24 hour service.
The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) has selected 57 innovative biomass projects that accumulate 435 MW of power to produce thermal energy in 8 autonomous communities, which will receive public aid worth 33.666.035 euros. Projects in all economic sectors The substitution of equipment using fossil fuels for biomass boilers has been relevant in industries in the olive oil sector such as COOSUR, MIGASA, EL TEJAR, LAMARCA, AGOLIVES and in the beer sector such as ESTRELLA GALICIA or L.PERNIA.  
@Sugimat has designed, manufactured and supplied for San Miguel Arcángel, the largest pomace producer in Europe, a turnkey facility in Villanueva del Arzobispo (Jaén) formed, among other elements, by a water tube steam boiler for the combustion of pomace.
The HERZ BioFire range of biomass boilers is the answer to large installations with high energy demand. With a variable power of between 500 and 1.500 kW depending on the selected model, through its cascade installation it is possible to reach 4.500 kW in a single project.