Biomass boiler conversion potential in the eastern United States

Charles D. Ray, Li Ma, Thomas Wilson, Daniel Wilson, Lew McCreery and Janice K. Wiedenbeck

Renewable Energy, 2014, vol. 62, issue C, 439-453

Abstract: The U.S. is the world's leading consumer of primary energy. A large fraction of this energy is used in boiler installations to generate steam and hot water for heating applications. It is estimated there are total 163,000 industrial and commercial boilers in use in the United States of all sizes.

Keywords: Biomass; Conversion; Industrial boilers; Commercial boilers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2013.07.019

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