Hi-Tech Agro : Residential Heating

Alternate Fuels > Residential Heating

Fossil fuel is extensively used in heating office buildings, large utility complexes, malls etc. Till a few years back, use of oil was cheapest. Now use of gas had subsequently taken over as cheap fuel. However, now, efficient large capacity thermal system burning biomass has become quite price competitive. To control global warming, biomass fired central heating system is necessary and as CO2 emission standards world wide lowers, it is likely to become even more attractive as an option.

Advantages of fossil fuel systems are ease in operation and automatic control of heating.

In developed countries, large commercial buildings run their heating system for 24 hours during working days and few have them running during weekends as well.

Once the chain for supplying biomass in a designated form is established, biomass system which is environmental friendly would become operator friendly also for these establishments.

For the residential heating, pellet stoves are becoming popular again but a supply chain to make them biomass pellet size specific is desirable. Use of grain in firing pellet stoves is neither desirable nor cost effective. Like the use of corn certain areas in USA, has not only resulted in shooting prices but also severe shortage making it unsustainable. In mid west region of USA, pellet fired domestic stoves are becoming popular.