Prospect of Biomass Utilization for Heating for Greenhouse Industry in Nova Scotia

  Murari Mohon Roy,  Animesh Dutta,  Kenny Corscadden

This paper reviews options of energy use for heating for greenhouse industry in Nova Scotia, Canada. On-farm hands on experiment for the assessment of combustion efficiency and emissions of greenhouse heating appliances are also performed. Many of the furnaces are found improperly tuned and a reason of low efficiency and/or high emissions. Tuning the furnaces properly, it is possible to reduce heating cost in the existing system. Biomass is identified as a potential option for greenhouse heating. Although, there are some biomass-fired (wood log, premium wood pellets, industrial grade wood pellets) furnaces in Nova Scotia greenhouses, they are old and not using the up to date technology. A properly designed biomass pellet heating system is recommended for Nova Scotia greenhouses to reduce heating cost and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Keywords- Biomass utilization, greenhouse industry, Nova Scotia, energy cost reduction, greenhouse gas emission reduction, combustion and emission.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1503093
Page Number(s) - 1-6
Pubished in - Volume 3 | Issue 3 | September 2015
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Murari Mohon Roy,  Animesh Dutta,  Kenny Corscadden,   "Prospect of Biomass Utilization for Heating for Greenhouse Industry in Nova Scotia", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.3, Issue 3, pp.1-6, September 2015, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1503093.pdf