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Reducing heating fuel costs in U.K
10/Sep/2006: A joint project involving the ‘Home Grown Cereals Authority’ and the ‘Rural Energy Trust’ of U.K has concluded that burning grains and straw pellets from crops can reduce the heating fuel costs in U.K by 50%, provided more research is carried out to improve the burning process to make it an environment-friendly one.
The project leader, Mr. Richard Harvey, said that using lower value materials like grains and straw pellets can reduce the heating fuel costs to a large extent and are as efficient as wood fuels, but the higher cost of a biomass heating system and additional time required to operate this system, could negate the cost advantage provided by the lower value materials like wheat, oats, oilseed rape and straw pellets.
The alternate fuels tested in this study produced more ash than wood fuels and formed a residue on the burners of the burning system, reducing its working life. However this problem could be overcome by using a more suitable burning system, setting controls in the burning process and using additives like limestone while burning the fuel. Burning grains can produce high levels of nitrogen oxide, which happens to be a greenhouse gas, but the resulting environmental impact could be offset by growing the grain as it can absorb nitrogen oxide from the atmosphere.
Kesavan Siva
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