FERLUX It has been dedicated to the manufacture of heating devices for more than 32 years, starting with a range of wood-burning fireplaces and barbecues to advanced products with a high technological content and avant-garde. Ferlux currently sells fireplaces and barbecues in more than 20 countries.

Certified with CE marking and respecting the strictest of regulations on emissions.

Designed to integrate into any environment, guaranteeing comfort throughout the house, FERLUX thermo-fireplaces allow the home to be heated uniformly through a hydraulic installation using radiators or underfloor heating.

Fireplace K-100 wood range

Watertight block in carbon steel with water heating system.

4mm 40-sided series frame.

Cprimary air control.

Draft regulator.

Clean glass system.

Adjustable in height.

Optional: screen-printed black glass.

MITECO publishes ORDER TED/707/2022, of July 21, with the first call for aid for heat network projects with renewable energies of more than 1 MW, endowed with 100 million euros.

Current aid for heat networks with renewable energies

The call opens on September 26 and ends on October 28, 2022. The aided actions must be completed by October 31, 2025.

The new call will subsidize the construction of new generation plants that exclusively use renewable energy sources and new distribution networks with connections to consumption centers (T1-type action); the expansion or replacement of an existing generation plant with equipment that uses exclusively renewable energy sources, including those that remain unsubstituted (action type T2); and the expansion of the distribution network and the existing connections in installations that exclusively use renewable energy sources (action type T3).

A good time to increase the number of biomass heating networks

AVEBIOM is preparing a new report on the state of heat networks in Spain, which will be available in October 2022.

Created for elegant and sophisticated environments, the X DATEO Range maximizes the concept of the domestic fireplace. Everything “superfluous” has been eliminated, leaving room for a clean and minimalist design that incredibly enhances the vision of the fire that seems almost suspended in space. A solid foundation is, in fact, the only element that supports the large combustion chamber, the true focus of the series and the main attraction of each look.

Key features

• Rated thermal power 7,7 kW
• Efficiency 87,1%
• Weight 125 kg
• Dimensions 1.170 x 534 x 464 mm
• Energy efficiency class A +

Rizzoli participates in the fair @Expobiomasa

The new heat network with forest biomass for the buildings on the campus of the University of Valladolid in Palencia will serve the buildings on the "La Yutera" campus: ETS Engineering Agrarias, Vice-rectorate, Classrooms, Departments and the faculties of Education and Sciences of the Worked. The campus currently meets its thermal needs through individual diesel and natural gas boilers, some of which are at the end of their useful life.

The tender budget for the heat network was €1.132.028,16 and the renovation work on the thermal installation and the boiler had a budget of €185.877,93. The fossil energy replaced will be 2.677.540 kWh/year generating economic savings of more than 35% compared to current fossil costs. An annual consumption of 835 tons of G-100 forest chips is expected.

The generation plant has a fuel storage area and another heat production area. And the mobile grate technology boiler, with a thermal power of 1.650 KW, is equipped with a multicyclone and an electrofilter to minimize emissions into the atmosphere. It also has a 40.000 liter buffer tank and a 1,2 km long network. The facility has a central control post that communicates, via a new fiber optic line, with the heat exchange substations that will be located in each of the buildings connected to the network.

UVA thus manages to have a centralized renewable thermal energy supply system for the entire campus. Biomass replaces the use of imported and polluting fossil fuels with a renewable, sustainable and local source of energy that helps generate employment in rural environments, reduces energy dependence in the region and contributes to the prevention of forest fires in Castilla y León.

This hallway pellet stove is the narrowest model in the ECOFOREST range, which offers all the advantages of our technology in a very compact sealed stove, with dimensions that fit into very small spaces, including WIFI and internet connection, finned exchanger, automatic regulation, etc. It also has the characteristic of being the flattest pellet stove in the world with a depth of just 16,7 cm.

The main features are:

• Yield: 91,2%
• Hopper: 7kg
• Autonomy: 11 - 6 h
• Consumption: 700 - 1200g/h
• Weight: 77 kg

ECOFOREST participates in @Expobiomasa

"Everything that burns in a boiler, stops burning in the forest". This is how forceful Francesc Cano is, deputy director of transfer at the Center for Forestry Science and Technology of Catalonia (CTFC). Cano refers to forest biomass that is extracted from forests to be used for energy purposes. A biomass to which more and more industries are switching due to the high price of gas.

But nevertheless, "of the three million cubic meters of forest matter generated each year in Catalonia, only one million is used, which means that year after year we accumulate two million forest materials”, warns the CTFC expert. "Of the million cubic meters that are extracted annually, about 250.000 are firewood, about 200.000 end up transformed into pallets and the remaining 550.000 are used as biomass, especially in the form of chips and, to a lesser extent, in the form of pellets," he says. Francis Cano.

"More involvement on the part of the administrations to promote a key sector, especially with summers marked by forest fires" is one of the demands of Jordi Serra, president of the Bioenergy Cluster of Catalonia. The next summers are not going to be better. The United Nations forecasts a 30% increase in forest fires by 2050 and 50% by the end of the century.

The fact is that while the main sawmills in Catalonia began, last April, a series of stoppages in production to protest the lack of forestry raw material with which to work. A global energy crisis with fossil fuels. Biomass continues to accumulate in the forests, in the absence of new measures by the administration, and the risk of forest fires increases, with an estimated cost of putting them out at around 10.000 euros per hectare according to the calculations of the EAE Business professor School May Lopez.

The Bioenergy Cluster of Catalonia participates in @Expobiomasa

The forestry and bioenergy sectors, the administration and conservationists warn that the use of biomass is vital for the adaptation of our mountains to climate change and thus reduce the virulence of forest fires.

The EU is preparing a new directive on renewable energy (RED III) that could include amendments that the forestry and bioenergy sector in Spain consider would go against improving the resilience of Iberian wooded masses.

The webinar organized by the Forum on Forests and Climate Change, in which Avebiom, Ence, Sacyr, the Confederation of Foresters' Organizations of Spain (COSE), the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge and the conservation organization Greenpeace participated, “Use of biomass as a strategic forestry policy in the face of climate change” was discussed

During the webinar, all the speakers were unanimous on the need to take advantage of the biomass of Mediterranean forests, particularly Spanish ones, so that they can optimally adapt to climate change and, very importantly, reduce the power and danger of forest fires. .

According to the latest National Forest Inventory (IFN), Spain has been accumulating wood in the mountains since the 90s. Every year, the mountains add 46 million cubic meters more, of which only around 40% is used (while in Europe the average is 65-70%) causing such an accumulation of biomass, and energy, which complicates, or even makes it impossible, to extinguish a fire if it starts.

RED III, immersed in the long approval process, could significantly modify the current RED II, including sustainability criteria for biomass that are even more restrictive and, from all points of view, unaffordable for Spain.

A Madrid food company has begun to value the single-use pallets it receives daily thanks to a chipper and to a 100 kW boiler supplied by Heizomat Spain.

Instead of piling up the pallets until the company in charge of collecting them comes, this Madrid-based company chips 12 wooden pallets every day, whose energy content is equivalent to about 80-100 liters of diesel, to heat the cleaning water.

The Arán Valley (Lleida) uses the wood from the area's forests to feed the two new biomass boilers installed in the Vielha hospital. The project has generated a socioeconomic impact thanks to the generation of jobs and favoring the efficient management of forest resources, one of the pending challenges in the area.

The project, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and with which the Aranese Health and Welfare Service joins the use of forest biomass for thermal uses in public buildings, is part of the FOREST4LOCAL program of the Lleida Provincial Council , whose objective is to develop a system that allows for more sustainable management of public forests and the use of biomass for energy supply.

The two boilers HERZ firematic 300 supplied by Thermosun offer a total power of 600 kW and provide heating in the Vielha hospital using forest chip G50.

Biomass silver, promoted by DH Ecoenergías and Ferrovial, will be operational in the spring of 2024 with the forecast that it will reach between 7.000 and 10.000 homes in the capital of Avila.

The project was born with the "vocation to serve the entire city", following in the footsteps of cities like Paris, where the renewable heat network has more than 500 kilometers, or Denmark, which "only knows the heat network" as a driving force to supply heating and hot water. At least, this is what the president of DH Ecoenergías, Teo López, has pointed out. “We are not wrong, we are on the right path, but it is difficult”, he pointed out.

With this objective, DH Ecoenergías and Ferrovial have laid the "first stone" of a project that will entail a private investment of more than 30 million euros and creating 230 jobs, both in the infrastructure construction phase and in its maintenance.

The renewable thermal energy network will help "eradicate the use of gas and diesel" by reducing the bill by 25%" and, in addition, "reduce some 30.000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions".

Likewise, this biomass energy network “will allow to clean the mountains”, and thus “reduce the risk of fires in a province like Ávila, where fires are always a threat”.

This project is a "milestone" that will reduce the "environmental impact of the city", in addition to "guaranteeing the comfort of citizens and making the supply of heat independent of the uncertainty and fluctuations of international markets". For David Pocero, from Energy Efficiency at Ferrovial Energy Solutions, this biomass network “will guarantee efficiency, sustainability and security of supply”.

The event, where the "first stone" of the biomass plant was laid, which "will be transparent" and its projection will be "a source of pride for all Avila residents", was attended by the Deputy Minister for the Environment, Housing and Planning of the Territory, Rubén Rodríguez Lucas, who, together with the mayor and the presidents of DH Ecoenergías and Ferrovial, has buried a time urn.

Consumers who wish to purchase a biomass stove to heat their home must choose between two fundamental options: wood stoves and pellet stoves. They are efficient heating systems that have numerous advantages

Heating systems that work with biomass are gaining more and more ground in the market. This is due to its multiple advantages such as its high calorific value, its economical price and its ecological fuel that does not harm the environment.

Characteristics of the wood stove

The wood stove is a heating device that uses wood as fuel. The wood stove has changed a lot since its creation and currently offers modern and innovative models that have a high calorific value. Wood stoves are an economical and ecological option, since they pollute much less than other conventional heating devices.