Shenstone Lodge school is using wood fuel pellets to produce Hot Water to heat their dormitories and school house.

The pellets are provided by Power Shred of Liverpool and are deposited into the bunker storage system.

The unit is connected into their existing pipework system heating radiators and providing hot tap water.

http://www.britishbiogen.co.uk/bioenergy/heating/shenstone.htm

In 2001 Durham County Council started to phase out coal fired boilers from its schools.

With three further schools due to be converted this year, all Durham County Schools using solid fuel heating should have been converted by 2005. At Ferryhill School, Trinity Special School and Staindrop Comprehensive the boilers were converted to wood pellets because they were off the mains gas network.

The schools are pleased with the performance of the pellet boilers and glad to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions and waste.

http://www.npellets/BMCS4.pdfef.org.uk/logpile/

This is the first large project in the region to use biomass wood pellets for the heating system.

Using wood pallets for heating is popular in Sweden and modern pellet heating gives comparable performance to oil-fired heating.

The old heating system at Hagangsgarden used oil, but one of the boilers was replaced with a wood pellet burning system which now accounts for 90% of the heating and hot water demand.

http://www.enthuse.info/uk/examples/sweden.pdf

Sited in East of England the EcoTech Rural business Centre is heated by a 250 kWt automatic wood chip boiler.

EcoTech is on a 4.5 ha site including a visitors centre (open April to October), offices, conference room, and training facilities.

The project was supported by Breckland Council, the Rural Development Commission and the European Union.

http://www.britishbiogen.co.uk/bioenergy/heating/ecotech.htm

The project is a public - private partnership to construct and operate a local wood chips, district heating system in Siikainen about 300 km North of Helsinky, a small rural municipality with 1,800 inhabitants.

The wood chips are produced from forestry residues which are transported to a collection point where they are turned into wood chips. The ESCOs have large storage facility for wood chips to provide the biomass supply during winter time. The yearly supply of biomass to the heating plant of Siikainen is 6,000 m³.

http://www.enthuse.info/uk/examples/finland.pdf

Modern wood fired boilers were installed at the SILVAROM SA factory in Romania to provide space heating and process heat. Improved dust collection resulted in better working conditions. Better combustion control reduced pollution in the surroundings as well as significantly reducing costs.

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The heating system is located at Combe Farm, Devon, UK.

It was installed in April 1998 for four-bedroom farmhouse and two small holiday cottages and is fueled by logs produced from managing the woodland; logs can also be easily purchased from local suppliers.

http://www.britishbiogen.co.uk/bioenergy/heating/combefarm.htm

The largest biomass-fired power plant in Austria and a piping network for district heat supply was constructed in Lienz, covering the entire area of the town.

The forecast heat output of the cogeneration plant in figures is 68,000 MWh/a, of which 95% will come from biomass.