General Programme Information
Country	Finland
Programme Name	Small-scale production and use of wood fuels
Programme acronym	Small-scale Wood Energy
Programme-Owner and Management	Tekes - The Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation and Technology
Programme start date	2002
Programme duration	5 years - until December 2006
Programme status (planned, executed)	finished
Programme website	www.tekes.fi/programmes/smallwoodenergy

 

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Objective 
Calls
Projects

Objective

The Small-scale production and use of wood fuels technology programme is targeting to develop solutions which are economically competitive, reliable and acceptable in terms of emissions as regards small-scale (usually under 1 MW) wood fuel production, storage, processing, distribution and energy production.

The programme aims to:

• Develop technologies for the export market in the field of small-scale wood fuel production and use;
• Strengthen the expertise of SME's both in R&D and business operations;
• Facilitate the networking of companies;
• Improve international connections with similar companies and research institutes in order to exchange and boost specialist skills and knowledge.

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Calls

The programme has ended. There are no more calls.

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Projects

Project database: http://akseli.tekes.fi/opencms/opencms/OhjelmaPortaali/ohjelmat/Pienpuu/en/projektilistaus.html

Overview of project titles:

Topic: Small scale production and handling of wood fuels
Distribution, handling and quality improvement of wood fuels in small-scale use
Drying of wood chips as a part of heat entrepreneurship
Drying and quality control of firewood
Harvesting alternatives and cost factors of delimbed energy wood
New handling concept for fire wood logs, from manufacturing to the client
Palax 450 firewood processor
Quality control of wood pellets in small-scale distribution and handling
Palax Power 100 wood chopper
Drying and quality control of firewood
Wood cutting machine for industry and small entrepreneurs
Application of module-based artificial drying in the logistics and distribution of firewood

Topic: Production, distribution and utilisation of wood pellets
Quality control of wood pellets in small-scale distribution and handling
Development of wood pellet production and utilisation
Storage and feeding system of wood chips and pellets for one-family house

Topic: Heat production technologies
Masonry fireplaces 2001
Reduction of emissions from small-scale wood burning
The significance of piping connection to the economy, safety and the proportion of heat generated from wood based fuels in a boiler plant
Novel combustion control for stoker burners
Control of Wood Chip Combustion
Optimisation of air delivery in a small house furnace
Developed control system for stoker burners
Next generation sauna stove
Small-scale fluidised bed boiler invention for new business
Development of a combustion bracket for briquettes
A new furnace type
Clean combustion of wood fuels in a small fireplace
New wood chip combustion station
Modular construction solid fuel heating station (200 kW-5 MW) for serial production
Development of a new generation fireplace family
Future bioheating systems
Wireless control for heat generation
New furnace for fireplace
New furnace for fireplace
Light weight fireplace and core element
Remote control system for heating station
Material and production technology for small and mid-sized boilers
Developing automation and data communication in small boiler plants

Topic: Emission control
Developing of measuring methods, air quality measurements and atmospheric dispersion models for small scale wood combustion emissions
Emissions, air quality and health in small-scale wood combustion
Development of electrically assisted fly ash particle removal technology for small-scale combustion
Prestudy of alternatives for reducing particulate emissions from small-scale wood combustion
Reduction of particulate emissions from wood combustion with the aid of heat exchangers
Multicyclone for flue gas cleaning
Fine particle emissions in small scale wood combustion Topic: Business and service concepts
Customer-oriented network trade and logistics of firewood
Research and development of the heat supply contracts and economical profitability of the heat energy business
Overall concept for district heating with domestic fuels

Topic: Other projects
Survey of the R&D needs of small scale use of wood fuels

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