Biomass Boiler Provides Savings, Sustainability to Columbia
MU is the biomass boiler project site in Columbia, and the use of biomass fired boiler has been improved for a higher efficiency,
MU has co-fired biomass boiler in its existing stokers under this program since 2006. With support from MU’s forestry department, MU has developed comprehensive sustainability standards for forest-derived biomass, which are incorporated in the biomass-supply contract for the power plant.
The new boiler will be fueled annually by more than 100,000 tons of regionally supplied and sustainably sourced biomass. This new biomass boiler, along with the co-firing of biomass in the plant’s stoker boilers, is expected to significantly reduce MU’s use of coal.
MU’s combined heat and power (CHP) boiler plant supplies electricity, heating, and cooling for more than 15 million gross square feet of buildings, including three hospitals, a research reactor, several research facilities and laboratories, academic and administrative buildings, residential halls, and athletic facilities. The plant is a 2010 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star CHP award recipient and is much more efficient than a conventional power plant because it produces simultaneously thermal energy (steam for heating and cooling) and electricity for the campus.
Realizing the growing importance of sustainability to students, faculty, and staff, Brady Deaton, MU chancellor, signed the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment in 2009 and established the MU sustainability office. The current climate action plan sets a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2016, and the new biomass boiler will bolster MU’s ability to reach this goal.
E-mail: Jane92806@foxmail.com
MU has co-fired biomass boiler in its existing stokers under this program since 2006. With support from MU’s forestry department, MU has developed comprehensive sustainability standards for forest-derived biomass, which are incorporated in the biomass-supply contract for the power plant.
The new boiler will be fueled annually by more than 100,000 tons of regionally supplied and sustainably sourced biomass. This new biomass boiler, along with the co-firing of biomass in the plant’s stoker boilers, is expected to significantly reduce MU’s use of coal.
MU’s combined heat and power (CHP) boiler plant supplies electricity, heating, and cooling for more than 15 million gross square feet of buildings, including three hospitals, a research reactor, several research facilities and laboratories, academic and administrative buildings, residential halls, and athletic facilities. The plant is a 2010 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star CHP award recipient and is much more efficient than a conventional power plant because it produces simultaneously thermal energy (steam for heating and cooling) and electricity for the campus.
Realizing the growing importance of sustainability to students, faculty, and staff, Brady Deaton, MU chancellor, signed the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment in 2009 and established the MU sustainability office. The current climate action plan sets a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2016, and the new biomass boiler will bolster MU’s ability to reach this goal.
E-mail: Jane92806@foxmail.com
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