India has millions of small farms, many an acre or less in size, cultivating rice, wheat, sugarcane, and other staple crops. And twice a year, when the harvest is done, these farms go up in flames.

Torrefaction - the slow roasting of biomass material to improve its energy content - has been touted as part of a solution for the large-scale implementation of bioenergy. The industry says that ...

) announced today that its Joint Venture (JV) partner, Agri-Tech Producers, LLC (ATP) has developed a new and patent-pending process that dramatically reduces the cost of some of the biomass feedstock ...

Biomass torrefaction is a mild pyrolytic pretreatment conducted at temperatures between 200 °C and 300 °C in an inert or oxygen-deficient atmosphere. The process removes moisture and a portion of ...

More biomass could be burned in coal-fired power stations if it was delivered pre-roasted to power stations, according to researchers from Leeds University. Many UK power stations are now burning ...

Torrefaction is a thermal pretreatment that upgrades diverse biomass feedstocks by heating them in an inert or low‐oxygen atmosphere at temperatures typically between 200 °C and 300 °C. This mild ...

In Connecticut, New Energy Risk announced the expansion of its existing partnership with Yilkins, a developer and producer of proprietary modular equipment for biomass upgrading. The expanded ...

Arvind Limited is supporting India’s first industrial-scale cotton-stalk torrefaction project. One of India’s leading textile-to-retail conglomerates, Arvind is partnering with Peak Sustainability ...