Biomass
It is the set of the organic matter of vegetal or animal origin and the materials that come from their natural or artificial transformation. It specifically includes the remainders coming from the agricultural, cattle and forest activities, as well as by-products of the agro-alimentary industries and transformation of the wood. These remainders could be provided by neighbors of the towns, obtaining therefore income extra for sectors so debilitated as they are the agriculture and the cattle dealer, with a possible and interesting economic improvement.
At the moment in Spain the principally used biomass is coming from the industry of the wood transformation, and consists of the advantage of the sawdust and the shaving of factories of doors or furniture to turn these remainders pellets.
Pellets are a clean energy, with a high calorific power, used in boilers of biomass or stoves of pellets. These boilers and stoves use full automated processes in all their procedures: automatic feed, automatic cleaning and automatic ignition.
The biomass is the cleanest technology for the heating systems since it emphasizes by:
- It's easy to store.
- It contributes to the mount cleaning, reducing forest fire risk.
- Aid to eliminate the remainders produced in industries like the olive harvester.
- Economic price and nonemployee of international conflicts or external wars.
- Facilities totally automated and of little maintenance.