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JF Temple & Son
The use of biomass in heating systems is beneficial because it uses agricultural, forest, urban and industrial residues and waste to produce heat and electricity with less effect on the environment than fossil fuels. This type of energy production has a limited long-term effect on the environment because the carbon in biomass is part of the natural carbon cycle.
Growing environmental concerns coupled with higher energy prices have led to a renewed interest in using animal manure, also known as feedlot biomass, to produce power. This can be accomplished either by burning manure directly for fuel, gasifying it with heat or by turning it into “biogas” through biological decomposition.
District heating (also known as heat networks or teleheating) is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location for residential and commercial heating requirements such as space heating and water heating. The heat is often obtained from a cogeneration plant burning fossil fuels but increasingly also biomass.
JF Temple & Son run a 550ac mixed dairy & arable farm which operates a 170kW Biomass plant. The plant takes slurry from their 100 milking cows, which is used to power their district heating system. They approached ABLE via our new 247able E-commerce site for the purchase of Kamstrup Energy Flow Meters for accurate, maintenance free consumption measurement of the working farm complex. Tom Carsdale, the farms head maintenance engineer commented on his positive experience of purchasing via 247able. “The website was easy to follow, we liked that all the options for the heat meter were on the one page – some places you buy stuff from you have a huge list of basically the same product but all the different variants are listed separately and it can be a challenge to find the exact combination you’re looking for. The reason we didn’t just buy from one of our usual plumbing suppliers was that they only had the battery powered one and we wanted the mains powered one – you had that and it was a good price. I have to say that we were pleased with the support from you guys throughout. Communication has been good and when we had an issue (caused by us) it was dealt with efficiently. When the meter arrived it was well packaged – really you couldn’t have made any of the process much better!”