Biomass Subcommittee Hosts Webinar Featuring Biomass Modeling Tool
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Biomass Subcommittee Hosts Webinar Featuring Biomass Modeling Tool
As the competition for biomass increases, there is a growing need to more rigorously understand and predict supply availability, sustainability, and economic feasibility of biomass sources. This is true for existing pulp mills as well as new biorefineries.
TAPPI's Biomass Supply, Handling & Handling Subcommittee is hosting a webinar for their next subcommittee meeting featuring a new modeling tool available from Enegis: Biomass Energy Analytical Model (BEAM). BEAM can assess biomass energy availability, including transport options and delivery costs, modeling resources from field/forest, through processing, to determining demand - providing a geographic quantification, storage, and densification options as well as transportation analysis.
The model has a 30 meters resolution for the lower 48 states, and currently carries about 50 species and commodities as it performs analysis with costs of net energy and net carbon carried forward at all modeling steps. BEAM can conduct assessments on a site-specific, regional, or national-scale. Focus on residuals, consistent with the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) proposed definition of biomass, has been run in a number of cases including mark to market. BEAM was originally developed for the Federal Energy Management Program.
Please come join us for the next subcommittee meeting and this presentation on Tuesday, October 9th from 1:00-2:00 PM.Subcommittee Chair Bob Hurter and Vice-Chair Bill Fuller will provide an update on subcommittee activities.
Webinar Registration
- This webinar is free to all TAPPI members. Click here to register for this one-of-a-kind opportunity to learn about cutting-edge technology and commercial strategies as it relates to new business opportunities in the biomass sector.
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