Introduction:

Biomass Charcoal Co-firing with Coal in existing high efficiency power plant boilers is the nearest term low-cost biomass energy option.  Transnational Technology proposed co-firing biomass charcoal produced using the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute high yield pressurized batch process. Yields of charcoal in laboratory and process development equipment ranged from 35% to 50%. The HNEI high yield charcoal process was patented and is being licensed for commercial development.

The following papers by Jim Arcate discuss biomass power applications using biomass charcoal.