CANCELLED: WHA Event: Maintaining fuel quality – A Seminar for Biomass Equipment Installers, Manufacturers and Fuel Distributors

This event has been cancelled.

This WHA seminar will bring together key stakeholders in the biomass heat space – equipment installers, manufactures and fuel distributors – to discuss the key issues, practical challenges and the way forward for maintaining fuel quality in the UK.

The planned seminar programme is:

09.30 – 10.00

Registration and networking

10.00 – 10.05

Welcome from the session chair
Ben Tansey, re:heat

10.05 – 10.35

Latest technical methods for testing pellet quality and key findings
Murtala Abdulmumini, The Wolfson Centre, University of Greenwich

10.35 – 11.05

Understanding the ENplus handbook
Bruno Prior, UKPC

11.05 – 11.35

Chip quality and certification
Helen Bentley-Fox, Woodsure

11.35 – 12.00

Tea and coffee

12.00 – 12.30

Wood chips: Calorific output from different species, moisture content and calorific value, and impact of chipping
Andrew Kitching, Rural Development Initiatives

12.30 – 13.00

Connected issues of burning waste and recycled wood in non-WID boilers
Nicola Percival, Ofgem

13.00 – 14.00

Industry panel: Operators’ control over fuel quality

14.00 – 14.05

Closing remarks from the session chair
Ben Tansay, re:heat

14.05 – 15.00

Lunch and networking

 

Date: 24th September 2015
Timings: 10:00 – 15:00 (including lunch and networking)
Location: DWF, Bridgewater Place, Water Lane, Leeds LS11 5DY

WHA/REA Member: £100 + VAT
Non WHA/REA Member: £200 + VAT.

REA members can book here, and WHA members can book by emailing the events team.