1. Industrial plants
The aim of industrial installations is to generate heat and then transport it, in the right form, to the right place. Here, we briefly outline the operating principles of the most common systems.
1.1 Heat generation
A wood-energy boiler consists of three parts:
the hearth: where fuel degrades and the flame begins;
the combustion chamber: where the flame develops ;
the heat exchanger, which recovers the energy produced by combustion.
A complete boiler can be diagrammed as shown in figure 1 .
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Wood consumption and equipment installed
Wood-energy accounts for around 6% of primary energy production in the European Union, producing mainly heat and very little electricity.
It is the European Union's main source of renewable energy (almost 60% of primary energy production from renewable energies is due to wood).
France is one of the four European countries...
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