California Biomass Collaborative
Presentation from California Plant and Soils Conference, 4 February 2004 (ppt 4.5 MB)
Policy Issues
Salt Separation and Purification
California Department of Water Resources
Close-coupled gasification systems for reducing NOx from biomass boilers
Sponsors:
GE-EER
Results from fuel screening experiments
Co-firing of a closed loop biomass fuel
Sponsors:
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company
US Department of Energy
Cooperators:
Hawaii Natural Energy Institute
Results from pilot and full-scale experiments
Rice straw harvesting and handling for off-field utilization
Sponsors:
US Department of Agriculture
Cooperators:
California Rice Commission
California Rice Research Board
Field studies, equipment, and GIS
Rice straw smoke generation system for controlled human inhalation exposures
Sponsors:
UC San Francisco
Fuel selection and furnace control in the reduction of operating costs for biomass boilers
Sponsors:
Cooperators:
Wheelabrator Environmental Systems
Woodland Biomass Power Ltd.
Wadham Energy
Final Report (Vols. 1-4)
Biomass leaching to improve fuel properties
Sponsors:
University of California, Davis
Results of laboratory and full-scale experiments
Leachate treatment by reverse osmosis
Distributed biomass power generation in the Philippines--Phase I
Sponsors:
Council of State Governments
in collaboration with USAID and US-AEP
Workshop and agency joint declaration
Phase I report
Element partitioning in biomass combustion and gasification
Sponsors:
Results of laboratory fluidized bed experiments
Vitrification of salts from agricultural drainage water
Sponsors:
Westside Resource Conservation District
Pollutant emission factors from open burning of biomass
Sponsors:
Final Report (Vols. 1-3)
Pollutant emission factors from open burning of sugar cane
Sponsors:
Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association
(currently Hawaii Agriculture Research Center)
Wind tunnel data