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		<title>The Old Views Of Biomass Energy and The Modern Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alternative along with alternative fuel are taking a greater role in providing heating, electricity plus shipping fuels. Wind as well as solar energy are common interpretations of renewable or alternative fuel, however biomass is also an important element as well as has exact benefits. Wood can provide power on demand, different wind or solar. By [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alternative along with alternative fuel are taking a greater role in providing heating, electricity plus shipping fuels. Wind as well as solar energy are common interpretations of renewable or alternative fuel, however biomass is also an important element as well as has exact benefits. Wood can provide power on demand, different wind or solar. By means of wind and solar if the wind doesn&#8217;t blow as well as the sun doesn&#8217;t shine, there is no power. Wood is solar energy captured through the process of photosynthesis. Due to combustion along with other chemical processes we can releases the energy stored within the biomass on demand.</p>
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<p>So what source of biomass do we have available to use, as well as are some wood sources more practical than others. Well, wood refers to lots of things, wood, grass, straws basically any untreated material which can be used to generate energy. Each source of wood performs differently under combustion, in addition to some grow much quicker than others. In most cases the appropriate source of biomass is what suits the accessible local land in addition to whether condition to achieve the best yields. For example if corn is grown locally for energy, this is a source of wood.<br />
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The corn should always be used for food, yet the cobs as well as stalks can be processed into pellets for fuel. Here an existing crops which generates both biomass plus food. Dual revenue food/fuel crops could play a significant role in the future as they produce the finest use of land. But food should always along with only be used for food, not fuel.</p>
<p>Learn more about <a href="http://www.biomasspelletmill.com/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://www.biomasspelletmill.com/');" target="_blank">Wood Pellets</a></p>
<p>A source of wood is a source of renewable fuel, as we can simply replace the wood we use for fuel by way of more biomass, and quickly. If you take hemp for case in point, it only requires 3 months of growth from seed, and generates some of the top yields of any biomass crop. Also, as biomass is already part of the current carbon cycle, no additional carbon emissions are produced during wood burning.</p>
<p>Read more about <a href="http://www.biomasspelletmill.com/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://www.biomasspelletmill.com/');" target="_blank">Pellet Mill</a></p>
<p>So now the point moves onto how to use plus burn biomass efficiently, reducing maintenance plus mounting warmth output. Well, biomass in its raw form is very bulky as well as generally contains a lot of water. This means its very hard to get the biomass to burn well, along with a lot of time as well as effort would be spent on achieving a good burn. These issues can be resolved though, by processing your source of wood into pellet form. Through compression, the biomass is give an consistent size in addition to shape, by way of increased density as well as low moisture content. These qualities are ideal to achieve a clean highly efficient burn which generates the required heat while dropping manual maintaince. To create a pellet, quite a lot of items of tools are required. Firstly a shredder or hammer mill to turn the biomass into a dust. The next step is moisture control, too much moisture plus it is impossible to compress the material into pellet form, too little moisture in addition to it is impossible to bind the pellet together. Therefore the matter may require drying or extra water introduced into the mix. The matter is now ready for the pellet mill where final pellet compression happens.</p>
<p>More information on <a href="http://www.biomasspelletmill.com/Alternative_Energy_Solutions.html" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://www.biomasspelletmill.com/Alternative_Energy_Solutions.html');" target="_blank">Alternative Energy Solutions</a></p>
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		<title>What do the levels of energy assessor cover?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Energy assessors are divided into 2 main categories – the domestic energy assessors who visit residential properties and execute energy assessments in order to produce an epc (energy performance certificate) and the non-domestic energy assessors who visit commercial buildings and produce non domestic epcs.
Commercial epcs need on all buildings which have more then 1000 m² [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Energy assessors are divided into 2 main categories </strong>– the d<strong>omestic energy assessors</strong> who visit residential properties and <strong>execute energy assessments</strong> in order to produce an epc (energy performance certificate) and the non-domestic energy assessors who visit commercial buildings and produce non domestic epcs.</p>
<p><strong>Commercial epcs</strong> need on all buildings which have more then 1000 m² of utile floor area and which are applied by members of the public and public authorities. So buildings suchlike schools, colleges, universities and hospitals are all expected to have commercial epcs devised along with, display energy certificates and the accompanying advisory reports.</p>
<p>All energy assessors must have a diploma in domestic energy assessment as a minimum before they may start out working towards their corroboration. So whether or not you are mesmerized in being an energy assessor you must see to it that you have your diploma in place before you go on to farther your training. There are a great deal of different organisations which offer this basic diploma to any individual who is looking to be an energy assessor. Once you have this qualification you may then go on to be accredited in which ever field you wish to work in – either domestic or non domestic.<br />
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Whether or not you decide to turn into a non-domestic energy assessor there are levels of achievement which you may work towards. Here are levels and what every level means in terms of an energy assessors professional capabilities.</p>
<p><strong>Level 1</strong>– It covers all commercial buildings which are classified as simple and haven’t been lately built. This means they’ll have a 100 kw of heating and up to 12 kw of local cooling, typical lighting, passive stack and construction which is classed as traditional. All level 3 non domestic energy assessors are able to utilize sbem engineering.<br />
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<p><strong> Level 2</strong> – It covers all newly built commercial buildings and all existing commercial buildings. These buildings may have a mixture of complex cooling and heating systems and similarly integrate low carbon technologies. All level 4 non domestic energy assessors are able to utilize sbem engineering.</p>
<p>Sbem engineering is utterly able to deal with calculations from simple and slightly more complex commercial buildings, notwithstanding it’s generally recognised for a great deal of buildings this engineering is not sophisticated enough. In these cases dynamic simulation modelling or dsm technologies may be applied, and these may only be applied by level 5 non domestic energy assessors.</p>
<p><strong>Level 5 </strong>– It covers all commercial buildings – newly built an existing which are highly complex and require the assessor to utilize dsm engineering to complete the assessment.</p>
<p>As you may see 3 distinguish levels of non domestic energy assessor cover all commercial buildings.</p>
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