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Study visit to Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council in Yorkshire

The photos on this page all related to a study visit to Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council in Yorkshire. We were investigating their award winning wood fuel project and learning from their experience.

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logs waiting to be chippedWestgate Plaza plantroomwoodchips to scale in barnwoodchip boiler in operation
woodchip store, Sheffield Road flatsanother view of Sheffield Road woodstorewoodchip auger, featuring Rodney Christopheran ash bin showing how little ash is produced
flow diagram of Sheffield Road heat networkwoodchip is tipped into the old coal bunker with a scissor ltiny ashbin, wood pellets produce even less ash than woodchiclose-up on fuel delivery tubes into woodstore
one tube carries woodpellet deliveries, the other woodchip320kW pellet boiler, note auger feed 3 huge accumulator vessels allow one boiler to service seve Buffer vessel in Digital Media Centre plant room
ash binstand-by gas boilersDick Bradford explaining how it all works lovely pipework!
more accumulator vesselscold water tankBlue cylinders are expansion vessels, on the left are the co500 kW woodchip boiler, which will also heat Central Library
ash bin, needs emptying once every 3 months or so lid to woodstore for Westgate Plaza boileranother nearly empty ash bin the ash bin (0.1% by weight ends up as ash)
320kW Froling Boiler in Digital Media Centre Boiler is a 320 kW Froling, managed by Econergywoodchip store at Sheffield Road flats (ex coal bunker) 
Westgate Plaza, entirely heated by woodchipentrance to Westgate Plaza plant room (main Council offices)one of the 3 blocks heated by the boilerthe woodchip boilers supply heating to 155 flats in three bl
pump set on heating networkwoodchips piled upmore gleaming pipework 
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