Commissioning Is Now Complete For The First Fröling TX 150 Wood Pellet Boilers
The three Fröling TX 150 wood chip/wood pellet boilers installed at the Stowe VT Middle/High School have gone through a week-long commissioning schedule and are now ready to operate. The three boilers are connected to a 500-gallon buffer tank that can produce up to 1.5 MM Btu/hr. The boilers are set up to operate on […]
Froling Energy’s Versatile Pellet Boiler/Silo Container
Our dealer Froling Energy (www.frolingenergy.com) has built the most versatile container for a pellet boiler system to date. The structure is both the boiler room and silo. The boiler room sits below the approximately 18 ton silo. The room can hold up to a 60kw pellet boiler. The total weight of the container is approximately […]
The First Three Fröling TX 150 Wood Pellet boilers are getting ready to go on-line
The first three Fröling TX 150 (500,000Btuh) wood chip/wood pellet boilers are almost ready to go live. The three boilers are located at the Middle and High School in Stowe, Vt. The three boilers will be able to produce up to 1.5 million btuh and will be burning wood pellets for fuel. The fuel is […]
A Wild Idea
About 5 years ago I was told about the building of the Poplar Stream Hut. The hut on Poplar Stream would be powered by a hydroelectric turbine and solar electric panels, include state of the art energy efficiency measures, composting toilets, and a radiant floor heating system heated by a wood boiler. The hut would […]
2012 Pellet Fuel Institute Annual Conference-Foxwoods Casino, CT
I was happy to attend this year’s annual Pellet Fuel Institute Conference at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, CT. It was two full days of presentations related to the pellet fuel industry. This including topics ranging from pellet plant safety, future pellet fuel standards, and ways to improve the pellet fuel market. It was […]
Montpelier Senior Center Gets a New Life-Now Heated with Wood Pellets (Fröling P4 48/60)
In December 2009 a fire nearly destroyed the Montpelier Senior Activity Center on Barre Street in Montpelier. Before the fire, the building had some efficiency issues. The building’s energy consumption was huge with a budget of over $38,000 a year for heat and electricity. The 25,000 sq ft. building had no insulation, single-pane windows, and […]
Pellet Boiler from Tarm Biomass is Helping Cafe Solar to Dry Coffee Beans
During the summer of 2010, Richard and Raul from Mesoamerican Development Institute (MDI) paid us a visit with pellets produced from coffee bean waste. We burned some of the fuel in our Multi-Heat 2.5 pellet boiler. The Multi-Heat has a very simple burn process that can handle the higher ash content of the fuel. Burning […]
Filling our Wood Pellet Silo
We just received our first pellet delivery of the season. Below, is a quick video showing how easy and simple it is. Our silo can hold approximately 15 tons. It takes about 35 minutes to deliver 10 tons of fuel. Our entire 10,000 sq. ft building is heated with a Froling P4 48/60 Fully Automatic […]
Featured Installation: Froling P4 Fully Automatic Wood Pellet Boiler-Bethel, VT
Polly and John are happy! They just got their new Froling P4 32/38 started before winter officially kicked in. Their apartment received damage from Tropical Storm Irene and they lost everything in their basement including their source of heat. They had already planned on installing a Froling P4 pellet boiler at a later date, but […]
Sweating the Heat
Pellet salesman’s advice: Plan ahead for winter By Ray Duckler / Monitor staff June 20, 2011 Charles Niebling, general manager for marketing at New England Wood Pellet, wants you to look ahead, long and short term. Short term as in heating your home this winter. Long term as in changing the way America thinks about […]