Wood Chip Boilers

Wood chip heating is gaining widespread popularity as an eco-friendly alternative to conventional fuels like propane and oil. Engineers seeking optimal efficiency for commercial facilities find wood chip boilers to be an excellent and distinctive choice. Embrace sustainability and step towards a greener future with this eco-conscious heating solution.

Tarm Biomass can help you find the best wood chip boiler for your company or institution. Our wood chip and pellet boilers are fuel- and energy-efficient alternatives that use renewable energy instead of natural gas and other fossil fuels to deliver the most reliable heating for organizations across all industries.

Wood Chip Fuel is produced by chipping whole trees or wood waste from forest management and land clearing. Wood chip fuel is less expensive than wood pellets. Wood chips come in various qualities, sizes and moisture contents. Boiler operation becomes low-maintenance and automatic with chipped wood while using renewable wood fuel.

Wood chips (30% moisture content) have an average net BTU rating of 9,632,000 BTU/ton. When less bark and debris are present, there will be less ash produced during combustion. Whole tree chips like those produced by roadside chipping are usually not used in wood chip boilers producing under 2 MMBTU/hr. High-quality chippers and chip screens are generally required to produce a maintenance-free fuel chip. The Fröling T4 150 burns dry chips (less than 30% moisture content). Moisture content under 30% is achieved only by actively drying eastern hardwoods.

Standards are available to help with purchase and sale of wood chip fuel.  For example,ANSI/ASABE AD17225-4:2014 FEB2018 Solid biofuels — Fuel specifications and classes — Part 4: Graded wood chips is a Wood Chip Heating Fuel Quality Standard published by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) under that official title. This standard helps describe wood chip factors such as moisture content, particle sizes, wood chip feedstocks and origination and other qualities such as permissible contaminants.