One success story is C&D Foods, a premium dry pet food manufacturer, which has saved in excess of [pounds sterling]50,000 and more than halved its CO2 emissions since converting its
boiler fuel from oil to LPG from Calor.
Most soluble coffee producers use their spent coffee, which is the by-product of producing soluble coffee, as
boiler fuel because of its availability and high BTU content.
There is no natural gas pipeline in Putney, Vermont, but, Soundview Vermont Holdings LLC (Soundview) began using natural gas instead of oil as
boiler fuel for its recycled tissue, towel, and napkin operation in Putney.
In Japan, pyrolysis machines are used at municipal waste facilities--including the Tokunoshima Island Clean Center--and to make
boiler fuel from plastic bags.
The strategic purpose of this Pusri IIB is to enhance the fertilizer production with an efficient use of natural gas though the replace of steam
boiler fuel with coal produced in abundance locally.
This upgraded product is known as lignocellulosic
boiler fuel (LBF).
Boiler fuel efficiency can be controlled by setting the correct proportion of fuel and air feeding the burner, and depends on the unburned fuel, the inlet and outlet temperature of the gases, and the oxygen content of the exhaust (BSI, 1987).
That wood fiber also can be used in composting or as
boiler fuel, the company said.
Over the course of more than a decade, a slow succession of events kept bringing a shutoff closer: the loss of big steam customers, the switch to natural gas from wood chips as
boiler fuel, the decision to move EWEB operations to Roosevelt Boulevard and redevelop the property that includes the steam plant, Sacred Heart Medical Center's decision to stop heating with steam in 2012.
It was a company's initiative to investigate the feasibility of using agricultural products as a
boiler fuel. "We want to make sure we have a secure and viable biomass supply source (locally)," said Kaiser.