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Glossary of terms

CHP – Combined heat and Power

Combined heat and Power (CHP) or cogeneration plants simultaneously provide electricity and heat from a single source.

Traditionally, power stations generate electricity from the combustion of fuel, with any excess heat going to waste. A CHP unit generates the electricity where it is needed and additionally gives the opportunity to use the excess heat for heating and hot water. In our case we use the heat to dry our woodchip. This can make CHP more than twice as efficient as conventional power stations – giving you cost savings, reducing emissions and carbon footprint.

RHI – The Renewable Heat Incentive

The Renewable Heat Incentive gives financial support to people who use certain renewable technologies to heat their homes. The payments are meant to help offset the cost of installing and running your new heating system. The domestic part of the RHI launched in April 2014. It’s government-funded, by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and aims to cut carbon emissions and help the UK meet its renewable energy targets. You apply to energy regulator Ofgem to join the scheme and it makes payments to you.

Read more: https://www.gov.uk/domestic-renewable-heat-incentive

ENplus®

ENplus^® certification was established in 2011. Originally designed by the Deutsches Pelletinstitut, ENplus^® introduced quality classes and stronger requirements to those set by the European and international standards. Thanks in part to the active support from European partners, ENplus^® has quickly become a renowned certification in both Europe and beyond. Its success largely contributed to a most needed harmonisation and standardisation of the pellet market.

Woodsure

The Woodsure assurance means reliable wood fuel that fulfils manufacturer specifications and burns with optimum efficiency, without the risk of damage to your appliance.

BSL – The Biomass Suppliers List

The Biomass Suppliers List (BSL) is a list of woodfuel that has proven it meets the eligibility requirements for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme. It allows RHI participants to easily demonstrate to Ofgem that the fuel they are using in their biomass boilers meets the RHI sustainability criteria required to claim their RHI payments.

Ready to Burn

The Ready to Burn certification mark is available to wood log suppliers who can demonstrate to Woodsure their logs have a moisture content below 20%. The scheme is focusing on pre-packed woodfuel.

Recent publicity around poor air quality and linking to the increased use of wood stoves has questioned whether casual consumers buying smaller retail bags of woodfuel realise the wood they are burning may not be suitable for immediate use. Its use in wet form would contribute significantly to particulate emissions whilst burning dry wood has significant and demonstrable benefits in greatly reduced emissions. Modern stoves are designed to burn dry wood.

Industry representatives, including large producers of pre-packed woodfuel have committed to a scheme that will clearly identify the wood that is ready to burn at the point of sale. It will also raise awareness for wood fuel consumers to only burn low moisture, ready to burn firewood.

Residue from Sawmill activities

Sawmills take in Roundwood Logs (Tree trunks) to make their products. When a mill makes a decking board or a fence post for example, they are unable to use the entire log due to the circular shape. Only about 50% of the log can be turned into a consumer product. The remaining, unusable part of the log used to be sent to Landfill. This residue, which includes sawdust, woodchip, bark, planer shavings, and pole shavings is now chipped and shipped to our factory to be dried and made into high quality 100% British Wood pellets and Briquettes.

FSC

The Forest Stewardship Council is an international non-profit, multi-stakeholder organization established in 1993 to promote responsible management of the world’s forests. The FSC does this by setting standards on forest products, along with certifying and labelling them as eco-friendly. This system allows consumers to identify, purchase and use wood, paper and other forest products produced from well-managed forests and/or recycled materials

HETAS

HETAS is the national organisation working for consumer safety and the wider public interest in safe, efficient and environmentally responsible use of biomass and other solid fuels

VAT

Different rates of VAT are applicable to Fuel depending on what you plan to do with it. If you are buying the fuel to burn yourself as an “end user” then 5% VAT is applicable. If you are buying the products to sell on to an “end user” then you would need to pay the standard 20%. You can make your selection at the checkout page.

Pellet Blower

Specially made Lorry used to transport ENplus® A1 wood fuel pellets to customers’ homes and businesses. It has a long hose attachment which is coupled to the customers Pellet Bin/Silo and pellets are then blown in at the required amount.

Calorific Value

The calorific value or fuel value of a fuel is the amount of heat energy given out when one gram of the fuel is completely burnt in excess of oxygen. The unit for fuel value is kJ g-1. Fuel value is also known as heat value. The Calorific value for Blazers Fuel Logs is 4.9

Turboden Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) systems

Turboden is an Italian firm and a global leader in the design, manufacture and maintenance of Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) systems, highly suitable for distributed generation, that generate electric and thermal power exploiting multiple sources, such as renewables (biomass, geothermal energy, solar energy), traditional fuels and waste heat from industrial processes, waste incinerators, engines or gas turbines.

Stela

Laxhuber GmbH provides drying solutions. The Company offers state of the art low temperature belt, agricultural, and drum dryers, as well as air heaters. Stela Laxhuber serves customers worldwide.

Uniconfort

has been active for over 60 years in the technological sector of solid biomass energy transformation produced by the forest-based, wood processing, agricultural, food processing, special crops and urban green cleaning industries.