Biomass – fuel with a future

Biomass

Today, biomass already accounts for 70 percent of all deployed renewables. This is of benefit to you because it is an indigenous fuel that does not require transportation from distant regions of the world. In addition, biomass is available all year round and can be stored, unlike solar energy and wind power. We therefore rate its future significance highly. 

By integrating the Austrian biomass specialists KÖB and Mawera into the Viessmann Group, we have laid important foundations for successful future development. For the heat provision in our own factory, we also use biomass as fuel. For this purpose, we have planted short-rotation poplar coppices that will be harvested after three years and turned into woodchips.

The yield is up to 5000 litres of oil equivalent per hectare/year. In addition, planting the coppice also gives us an opportunity to gain experience in this innovative kind of energy generation across the entire process chain to help us to optimise it further.

Utilisation and research
 
The results from our horticultural enterprise will be used to improve yields and to optimise combustion characteristics. In addition, we have set ourselves the goal of driving the development of efficient harvesting methods and innovative solutions for shredding and storing biomass. 

Looking towards the future: Oil and gas go green 

In the future, bio-oil and biogas will be admixed with fuel oil and natural gas. This enables advanced condensing technology for oil and gas to be combined with the utilisation of liquid or gaseous biomass as fuel. The benefit lies in the unlimited use of the existing heating system infrastructure. The efficient utilisation of biofuels in advanced heating systems is also proven in the new Viessmann energy centre in Allendorf.

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