Biofuels and Waste

Biogases are gases arising from the anaerobic fermentation of biomass and the gasification of solid biomass (including biomass in wastes). The biogases from anaerobic fermentation are composed princip [..]

Industrial waste of non-renewable origin consists of solid and liquid products (e.g. tyres) combusted directly, usually in specialised plants, to produce heat and/or power. Renewable industrial waste [..]

Primary solid biofuels and charcoal are defined as any plant matter used directly as fuel or converted into other forms before combustion. This covers a multitude of woody materials generated by indus [..]

Blast furnace gas is produced during the combustion of coke in blast furnaces in the iron and steel industry. It is recovered and used as a fuel partly within the plant and partly in other steel indus [..]

  Coke oven gas is obtained as a by-product of the manufacture of coke oven coke for the production of iron and steel. 

Gas works gas covers all types of gas produced in public utility or private plants, whose main purpose is the manufacture, transport and distribution of gas. It includes gas produced by carbonisation [..]

Patent fuel is a composition fuel manufactured from coal fines with the addition of a binding agent (pitch). The amount of patent fuel produced is, therefore, slightly higher than the actual amount of [..]

Other bituminous coal is used for steam raising and space heating purposes and includes all bituminous coals not included under coking coal. It is usually composed of more than 10 per cent volatile ma [..]

Additives are non-hydrocarbon substances added or blended with a product to modify its properties, for example, to improve its combustion characteristics. Alcohols and ethers (MTBE, methyl tertiary-bu [..]