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Pre-Feasibility Analysis of Pellet Manufacturing on the Former Loring Air Force Base Site

Year: 2014

Type: report

Abstract: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, in accordance with the RE-Powering America's Lands initiative, engaged the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to conduct feasibility studies to assess the viability of developing renewable energy generating facilities on contaminated sites. This site, in Limestone, Maine -- formerly the location of the Loring Air Force Base but now owned by the Aroostook Band of Micmac -- was selected for the potential to produce heating pellets from woody feedstock. Biomass was chosen as the renewable energy resource to evaluate based on abundant woody-biomass resources available in the area. NREL also evaluates potential savings from converting existing Micmac property from oil-fired heating to pellet heating.

Source: OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

DOI: 10.2172/1130169

Authors: Randolph Hunsberger, USEPA, USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Gail Mosey

Institution: National Laboratory of the Rockies

Language: English

Topic: Forest Biomass Utilization and Management

Subfield: Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

Field: Energy

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Affordable and clean energy, Responsible consumption and production, Climate action

Open Access status: green

Funders: U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

OpenAlex ID: W890381354

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