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A New Age of Energy Generation

Steam explosion advanced black pellets are a renewable fuel with comparable energy to coal but, from production to combustion, they leave a negligible carbon footprint.

They possess 30 percent more energy than white wood pellets. They can replace up to 100 percent of fossil coal burned in smaller generating units, and up to 75 percent burned in utility scale furnaces.

Unlike previous generations of biofuel pellets, Power Wood’s advanced black pellets need no chemical additives to bind them. Resident natural lignin becomes their powerful binder.

The grain produced from grinding them is similar to coal, has 87 percent of its energy but, unlike coal, causes minimal slagging and station maintenance, and no local pollution.

Change at Bio-Structural level

Power Wood Canada Corp’s advanced black pellets are produced by steam explosion, a scientific process that ruptures and reconfigures biomass at cellular level.

Developed by industrial engineers at Valmet, modified for environment by Power Wood, our pellet plant facilities pressurize and autohydrolyze waste stream wood with 230°C steam – before instant depressurization explodes it into energy-rich homogenous granules.

Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin are separated. Hemicellulose is degraded. Pentose sugars are refined into bio-chemical furfural. Glucose stays in the exploded granules. And energy-rich, glue-like lignin packs them out.

An industrially fed loop, running 24/7, produces activated black biofuel grain for pelleting into bulk-dense, durable and waterproof biofuel for utilities and factories.

World-Leading Biofuel from Eco-Engineers

Power Wood Canada Corp partners with Valmet to leverage its industrial engineering expertise so heavy industries can decarbonize by using a logistics-friendly, sustainable replacement for coal.

Market-leading industrial engineers Valmet developed BioTrac™’s continuous steam explosion process to produce best-in-class biofuel as a viable, utility-scale alternative to the fossil fuel.

Valmet’s pioneering system autohydrolizes fire-damaged deadwood with steam in a pressurized reactor, before instant depressurization shatters its bio-structure into lignin-rich biofuel grain and pelletization produces durable, waterproof, energy-dense pellets.

Power Wood has taken the opportunity to use BioTrac™ technology for upgrading low-value, low-cost natural waste stream wood into a premium advanced biofuel that supersedes coal.

BioTrac™'s Continous Carbon Neutral Production Phases

Power Wood’s pellet production process creates high calorie granular biofuel that is ideal for manufacturing durable, waterproof, energy-dense bio-coal.

An industrial loop, fed with waste stream aspen wood 24/7, produces a constant stream and several hundred tons of activated black biofuel grain for pelletizing every day.

🌳 Valmet’s BioTrac™ plant facilities are fuelled with native bark chippings and waste wood to create power, heat and steam for the process.

🌳 Harvested dead and diseased lumber is washed and dried before lengthy exposure to 230°C steam in the system’s high-pressure reactor.

🌳 Hydrolysis forces the release of acetic acid from the organic feedstock, which breaks down its cell structures and releases sugars and lignin.

🌳 A sudden elimination of reactor pressure disintegrates and expels treated biomass into a granular powder which glazes with energy-rich lignin.

🌳 An integrated refinery extracts pentose sugars for producing renewable biochemical furfural, while the activated granular biofuel is heat dried.

🌳 The advanced biofuel grain is pelleted under extreme 160 MPa pressure into durable, waterproof, energy-dense bio-coal pellets and briquettes.

Sustainable Net-Zero Production

Valmet’s BioTrac™ steam explosion pellet plant delivers a carbon neutral production process that turns wildfire-burned lumber into an energy-dense substitute for coal.

The facility’s energy-efficient heat and power system is fuelled with residual wood and bark chippings. The system generates enough energy for the steam reactor, and surplus to sell to the grid.

BioTrac™ explodes aspen heart and sap wood from fire-damaged forests at cellular level. It removes lower calorie hemicellulose and refines cellulose carbohydrates into lignin-rich activated, premium biofuel. Pentose sugars are extracted to make furfural.

The end product is the market’s most advanced black pellet with comparable mechanical strength, water-resistance and energy release to coal. But with no local pollution and a 94 percent smaller carbon footprint.

Transformation Tech for Regenerative Agriculture

Power Wood Canada Corp’s remedial soil substrate SuSo® is processed from wildfire-damaged aspen deadwood using ground-breaking rapid decomposition technology.

Feedstock harvested in Canadian forests is transformed into mineral-rich SuSo® substrate using X-MET’s NATO-approved pioneering Converter® AG2000.

The transformation chamber’s advanced thermal process uses high-velocity rotation and friction-generated heat to shred, dehydrate and pasteurize carbon-dense, wildfire-scorched wood chip into a nutrient-loaded compost soil substrate.

The Converter® AG2000 primes our high-grade porous flock fibre SuSo® to lock in water content so nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium, copper, zinc, iron and manganese can seep into soils consistently.

READ MORE ABOUT SUSO SOIL SUBSTRATE HERE

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To know more about Power Wood Canada Corp’s bio-based products, please contact our sales team on +44 (0)1702 662 422 or send an email by visiting our contact page.