BIOMASS FIRED FURNACES

Category: Agriculture                                                         

Summary: Biomass furnaces are enclosed structures that use organic materials, like wood chips, corncobs, and rice hulls, as fuel to generate intense heat.

Biomass furnaces are enclosed structures that use organic materials, like wood chips, corncobs, and rice hulls, as fuel to generate intense heat. They have a fire-resistant surface called a hearth located in the heating chamber where the biomass fuel is burned. Biomass furnaces are classified by their heat transfer method as either direct-fired, where flue gas goes directly into the dryer, or indirect-fired, which uses a heat exchanger to prevent flue gasses from mixing with the drying air. They can also be classified by the type of heat-resisting lining used in their construction, which can be brick, ceramic fiber, or monolithic.