BTU Question

Hi,

I am looking into setting up a CHP project on my residential rural property to provide heat and electricity to my home and sell approximately 50 kWe to the grid. I will need to provide 310,000 BTU / h to the furness and will be using wood pellets as the fuel ( I will be manufacturing the pellets myself from softwood on my property and clean 2x4 construction waste, I work for a large construction company and could have access to tons of clean softwood waste). How much wood biomass will I need to produce 310,000 BTU / h?

Thanks.

PelletGuy

Hi Guys,

Thanks for your speedy replies, I am planing to sell wood pellets so using the pellets were in my plans but nothing is written in stone at this point as I am still in the planing stage with all of this. The product I was going to use for generation is the Stirling Bio Power CHP unit here is the link, http://www.stirlingbiopower.com/STIRLING/BASSE.swf I have been waiting a long time for a commercial capacity Stirling Engine to come to the market. What excites me about these units is the fact that it is the thermal differential between hot and cold that gives the power so if you increase the cooling capacity it is like adding additional BTU's to the action. My basic plan is to build a electrical generation capacity that will pay for all of my basic living expenses (mortgage, installation costs on the generation equipment, taxes, etc.). My provincial government has a procurement project that offers Standard Offering Contracts with a premium on bio-power paid for twenty years and I can see myself setting up a lifestyle where I have reduced what I need to do to survive to feeding wood into a chipper and maintaining equipment that is very maintenance free for the most part. With a twenty year contract through the government that makes the local distributers buy power from me at a good price I would never have an issue finding customers or clients or care what the stock-market was doing its just wood goes in power comes out and thank you very much for the check. The reason I am going to scale the operation down to the minimum to pay my basic expenses is not to take to much of the wood available. I hope if this works out I will document every step in great detail and start to develop procedures that any other person could create the same situation for themselves. So long as governments will secure long term contracts for procurement banks will lend money to small operators with bulletproof business models I would think.

I'll post any updates that come along and will answer any questions that I can if your interested.

PelletBoy...