Web231024: Straw briquetting and use of the briquettes for heating

About the webinar

The capacity of agriculture to provide solid biofuel from straw and other herbaceous plants will be an additional income source for farmers.

Many farms are diversifying the crops they grow on their land and seek herbaceous break crops as a tool to improve land management. Sequestration of CO2 to offset animal emissions has also become a valuable financial consideration for resilient business operations.

Crop residues are currently often under-utilised, and are disposed of to waste, because of logistics constraints and lack of incentives. The collection and processing of crop residue into biofuels has been extensively developed in Europe and their skills and experience is transferrable to New Zealand and Australia.

This webinar outlined many of the methods and equipment used in Europe to turn biomass which would otherwise be wasted into a valuable biofuel or feedstock for processing into other bio-based products. A particular emphasis was on the densification into briquettes to reduce transport, storage and handling costs.

The Bioenergy Association invited anyone interested in using straw as a biofuel to attend this webinar

You may find the Bioenergy Europe Biomass for energy: Agricultural residues & energy crops report of interest.

About the presenter

Barbara is the Sales and Marketing Director of Asket, a Polish company specialised in the manufacturing and  supply of stationary and mobile straw briquetting equipment.

She has 20 years of experience in international markets with a focus on showing practical examples of the use of ecology in everyday life, a promoter of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) and organic farming. In the bioenergy sector, her main interest is non-woody biomass for local, sustainable applications.

She is the Chair of the Bioenergy Europe Agro-biomass Working Group