PM emissions from newly-built wood chip combustion plants: Case study for Serbia

Abstract

There is evident increase in air pollution in recent years. The dominant sources of air pollution in urban and rural areas, during the heating season, are small individual appliances. In recent years, new combustion plants have been built in several places in Serbia, which use biomass as fuel - wood chips. These plants were built in order to replace multiple existing low-rank coal combustion plants, combining them in one combustion plant. This paper gives review of PM emissions measurements, that were conducted in 8 newly-built wood chip combustion plants. Combustion plants provided heating power between 0,5 and 1,5 MW. Also, proximate and ultimate analysis of fuel is presented for every boiler under consideration.