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 which can handle the higher ash content of the fuel. Burning the coffee bean waste pellets was a success, so a boiler was packed up and shipped to MDI for later shipment to Honduras. MDI has teamed up with Cafe Solar to help coop coffee growers in Central America to find better ways in drying their coffee beans. For the past 70 years coffee has used firewood to dry coffee beans. All of this firewood comes from the local rain forests. It is estimated that Mesoamerica (The area between Central Mexico to Honduras) uses approximately six thousand hectares (almost 15,000 acres) of forest to dry coffee beans each year. 

The pellet boiler will help a large solar powered dryer at the COMISUYL Cooperative located in Subriana, Yoro, Honduras. Here are some images of their processing center. This processing plant does not use any firewood from the rain forest.

Here are some more links related to the project:
www.facebook.com/pages/Cafe-Solar/104282260812?ref=ts#!/pages/Cafe-Solar/104282260812
www.mesoamerican.org
www.cafesolar.com
http://video.nhptv.org/video/2148904255/

 

Featured Installation: Fröling P4 Fully Automatic Pellet Boiler-Hartford, VT Rest Area

Heading southbound, this is the new I91 rest area building just south of the I91 and I89 interchange in Hartford, VT.

Systems Installed: Fröling P4 32/38 with 300 gallon thermal storage. External silo.
Sold By: Sunwood Biomass 124 Fiddlers Green, Waitsfield, VT 05673 802-583-9300 www.sunwoodbiomass.com contact@sunwoodbiomass.com
Completion Date: Spring of 2012

 

        

 

 

 

 

     

More information on the Fröling P4 can be found here.

Coming Soon! A larger Fully Automatic Pellet Boiler from Fröling-The P4 80-100Kw

Great news! We will have Fröling’s largest Fully Automatic Pellet Boiler available for the 2013 Heating Season. The larger P4 boiler will be ideal for larger heat load applications. It will also have an ASME pressure vessel and higher output water temperature. There is the ability of cascading up to four boilers.

Here are some of the numbers:

Component	Units	P4  80	P4  100
Rated Heat Output	Btuh	273,000	341,000
Heating Efficiency Range	Btuh	82,000-272.971	102,000-341,000
Power Connection	Volts	230V	230V
Output	Watts	120	120
Water Volume	Gals.	74	74
Weight of Boiler	Lbs.	2403	2425
Total Height	inches	74.8	74.8
Total Width	inches	82	82
Total Depth	inches	42.125	42.125

Coming Soon- Fröling TX 150

Coming Soon-We anticipate availability sometime before Spring 2013.

The New Fröling TX 150

User friendly, sturdy, economical and reliable: the new TX from Fröling is guaranteed to impress in every aspect.

This boiler can efficiently burn both wood chips and wood pellets due to its well designed fully automatic system.

Fröling also offers a wide range of fuel feeder systems for virtually all requirements. Optimum energy consumption is ensured by the detailed system engineering. This means the Fröling TX can offer reliable, high-quality heating!

Tx 150 Brochure (pdf)

Advantages

Ventilated step grate
-Optimum combustion
-Pre-drying of materials

 

Ash Removal screw
-Clean combustion
-Self-cleaning installation

 

Standing tubular heat exchanger
with efficiency optimisation system
-High efficiency
-Easy cleaning from outside
-Low energy consumption

Smart Grate Technique
-Combustion grate 90 degrees
-Optimum combustion

 

High-Temperature firebrick-lined
combustion chamber
-Optimal combustion
-Low emissions
-High efficiency

Lambdatronic H 3200 controller
-The Lambda control is standard, it
gives precise combustion control
-Large, easy-to-read control unit with graphic display
-Menu-based operation with on-line help

Pictures

Featured Installation: Fröling P4 Fully Automatic Pellet Boiler-Stanislaus Housing, West Rutland, Vermont

Project Name: Stanislaus Housing, Barnes St. West Rutland, VT
Systems Installed: Fröling P4 48/60 pellet boiler, 2-220 gallon thermal storage tanks, 2-5 ton cloth silos for pellet storage.
There is also solar heating for domestic hot water with 5-119 gallon Solar Indirect Hot Water Tanks
Sold By: Sunwood Biomass 802-583-9300 www.sunwoodbiomass.com
Completion Date: Winter 2012

Boiler system is heating two fully renovated buildings housing 17 apartments. The buildings were once a Catholic school and convent. The total cost of the project was approximately $4.3 million with funds from the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, HUD’s HOME, the Neighborhood stabilization Program, and a community development block grant. Here is a link to a newspaper article about the open house.

For a VPR podcast about this project, please click here.
For a VPR news article, please click here.
For anther news link on the project, please click here.

For more information, please feel free to call us at 800-782-9927 or visit our website www.woodboilers.com

Featured Installation: Froling P4 Fully Automatic Pellet Boiler

Systems Installed: One P4 32/38 wood pellet boiler with 400 gallons of thermal storage. 
An external silo will be used for fuel storage. 
Installation Date: Winter 2012  Completed Date: Late 2012
Installed By: Advanced Heating Technologies 802-763-2200 www.ahtph.com

Older warehouse building, located in Bethel Vermont. Renovation began in winter 2012. Boiler installed early to provide heat for renovation. Check back for future photos.

 

How Much Wood Will Fit in a Froling FHG 20/30?

Well, Let’s find out…
Here is a quick video showing how much wood will fit in the firebox.

For more information, please go to our website.

Scott Nichols Will Be A Panelist On The Next Science Cafe NH Event

 

Scott Nichols, president of Tarm Biomass will be one of the guest speakers at the next Science Cafe event at the Barley House, Concord, NH on Wednesday January 18th between 7:00 -9:00 PM. The topic will be: Biomass in NH: What ARE the Impacts? The event is free! I hope you can make it.

 

For more information please go to their website: http://www.sciencecafenh.org/

Filling our 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 Pellet Boiler with 500 gallons of Thermal Storage.