<div id="LayerE10" style="visibility: visible; overflow: visible; z-index:0; left:0px; top:0px; position:absolute; "><table style="border-collapse: collapse;" width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" bordercolor="#000000" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" colspan="3"> <div><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span></span><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span></span><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span></span><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span><span class="Green_Head">Wood Fuel Enterprise</span></span><br /> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span></span> </span></div></td></tr><tr align="justify"><td valign="top" colspan="3"> <div><span class="Black_Text"> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" bordercolor="#000000" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" colspan="2"> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text_Bold">Background to fuel production</span><br /> </span></span> <div align="justify"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> Callendar Estate is an agricultural and forestry estate with substantial agricultural, forestry and development assets based in Falkirk in central Scotland. The Estate operates a number of rural enterprises as well as promoting appropriate development of its assets in partnership with a number of well known property development companies.</span></span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span></span><br /> <span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> The woodland estate extends to approximately 560ha and contains 429ha of coniferous plantations and 131ha of broadleaved woods. It will source all its wood fuel production from this wholly owned forestry. The wood fuel production forecasts shown below are permanently sustainable. The Estate is uniquely placed to provide a sustainable supply of wood fuel – unaffected by market issues impacting on suppliers who must rely on wood fibre that they don’t actually own. For this reason the Estate can offer long term contracts with stable indexation. <a href="javascript:reanchor('#Fuelspecificationsandprices')" title="Fuel specifications and prices"><span class="Black_Text_Bold_Small"><u><span class="MidGreen_Text_Bold">Click here for more details of product specifications and prices.</span></u></span></a></span></span></div></div> <div> </div></td></tr><tr><td width="50%" valign="top"> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text_Bold">Fuel production plans</span><br /> </span></span> <div align="justify"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span></span></span><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text">The Estate constructed a wood fuel depot and storage area in 2007. Lying to the west of Craigieburn Farm in the centre of the Estate, the location is close to the main bulk of the harvestable woodlands, away from neighbours and has a large storage area along side an existing farm/forest track which has an east west alignment. This track is approximately 400m in length is sufficient to store 2880m³/2500 green tonnes, [(L400m x W3m x H4m) x 0.6) = 2880m]. The round logs will be hauled to and stacked perpendicular to the track on the southern side. The round log pile will then be covered with a reinforced paper to prevent rain wetting the logs. The logs will be stored in the round until the required moisture content is achieved.</span></span></div></div></td><td width="50%" valign="top"> <div> <span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><img style="margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px;" width="300" height="208" align="right" src="../ce/imagelibrary/wood-fuel-depot-location_300.gif" alt="Wood Fuel Depot, Callendar Estate" title="Wood Fuel Depot, Callendar Estate" /></span></span></span></span></div></td></tr><tr><td width="50%" valign="top"> <div><span class="Black_Text"> <span class="Black_Text"></span></span></div> <div align="justify"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text">The shed has the following dimensions - 15m x 30m and partial block side walls to a height of 2m above this the shed will be enclosed by a weather proof screen which can be opened to enable the chips to be blown directly from the timber pile into the shed thus reducing the handling costs and to allow for ventilation. The gables are fitted with doors of sufficient size to allow access for loaders and trailers. The shed will have a storage capacity of 1575m³ loose volume (400t of woodchips at 35%MC). At this moisture content the chips must be stored to a depth not exceeding 3.5m to prevent heating.</span></span></div></td><td width="50%" valign="top"> <div> <span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><img style="margin: 0px;" width="301" height="209" align="right" src="../ce/imagelibrary/biomass_fuel-depot_300.jpg" alt="Timber Storage Area, Callendar Estate" title="Timber Storage Area, Callendar Estate" /></span></span></div></td></tr><tr><td width="50%" valign="top"> <div> <span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><br /> </span></span> <div align="justify"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> To enable indoor loading during wet weather an area of 150m² will be kept clear of chips to enable a loader and trailer access to the shed. This will reduce the storage capacity of the shed to approximately 275t and also allow the chips to be turned, should heating be detected.</span></span><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span></span></span></div> <div align="justify"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></span></div> <div align="justify"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text">The Estate will manage a sustainable programme of harvesting from its woodlands this means a maximum of 2650 green tonnes of wood are processed through the shed each year.</span></span></span></div></div></td><td width="50%" valign="top"> <div> <span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><img style="margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px;" width="300" height="209" align="right" src="../ce/imagelibrary/chipping-timber-300_02.jpg" alt="Chipping timber, Callendar Estate" title="Chipping timber, Callendar Estate" /></span></span></div></td></tr><tr><td width="50%" valign="top"> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><br /> </span></span><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text">In energy content terms this means the Estate could produce up to 1625 tonnes of wood fuel per annum at 35% mc. This is equal to 5.2 Million kWhs per annum. This fuel can be achieved on a sustainable basis from Estate’s own woodland resources. However, due to harvesting constraints we would expect that this level of production could not be achieved until 2012. Prior to that we can produce 980 tonnes per annum at 35% mc for the period 2008 to 2011.</span></span></div></td><td width="50%" valign="top"> <div> <span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><img style="margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px;" width="301" height="209" align="right" src="../ce/imagelibrary/chipping-timber-300_01.jpg" alt="Chipping timber, Callendar Estate" title="Chipping timber, Callendar Estate" /></span></span></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" colspan="2"> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text_Bold">Wood Fuel Producer Group</span><br /> </span></span> <div align="justify"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> The Estate is in the process of setting up a Wood Fuel Producer Group made up of other woodland owners drawn from a radius of 30km from Falkirk. This will provide a larger area of woodland from which to draw wood fuel, providing additional comfort to customers that supplies will not be interrupted, enable the effective management of peaks and troughs, normally associated with timber harvesting and provide the opportunity to expand the supply business keeping costs down and spreading risk both to the producer and the customer. One member of the proposed group has 120ha of coniferous woodland at production stage which will enable the Group to double production to 3250 tonnes of wood fuel per annum at 35%MC until 2013. Other woodland owners within the propose Producer Group will see the total area of productive woodland rising to 1235ha providing a strong and sustainable supply base for future customers. Because of the need to store and air dry round logs outside and the capacity constraints on chip storage in the shed we do not think it would be commercially or practically viable to increase the shed through put beyond around 5000 tonnes per annum per shed.</span></span></div></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" colspan="2"> <div> <span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><img style="margin: 0px;" width="590" height="221" src="../ce/imagelibrary/pates-hill-plantation_edited.jpg" alt="Pates Hill Plantation, West Calder" title="Pates Hill Plantation, West Calder" /></span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text_Bold">Wood Fuel Specification</span><br /> </span></span> <div align="justify"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> The fuel will be supplied to normal required specification standards for commercial scale wood chip boilers. The production target will be 35% moisture content. The particle size can be varied to suit the boiler specification. To achieve required particle sizes the energy chipper contracted in by the Estate simply needs setting up using the correct screens and blades. As all fuel is produced from virgin forestry it will be free from any contaminants. The Austrian fuel standards shown below will be used. CEN standards can also be adopted if needed. In effect this is a very high quality wood chip fuel suitable for auger feeding mechanisms on boiler systems up to around 1 to 1.5MW.</span></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></span><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span></span></span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span></span></span></div></td></tr><tr><td width="33%" valign="top"><br /> </td><td width="33%" valign="top"><br /> </td><td width="33%" valign="top"><br /> </td></tr></tbody></table><span class="Green_Text_Small"><span class="Green_Text_Small"></span></span> <table style="border-collapse: separate;" width="550" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><span class="Black_Text_Bold">Parameter</span></td><td><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span> </span><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span>Measurement<br /> </span></td><td><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span></span><span class="Black_Text_Bold">G30<br /> </span></td><td><span class="Black_Text_Bold">G50</span></td><td><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span><br /> G100<br /> <br /> </span></td></tr><tr><td><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span>Max length (long thin material)<br /> </span></td><td><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span>cm</span></span></td><td><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span>8.5<br /> </span></td><td><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span>12<br /> </span></td><td><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span> 25<br /> </span></td></tr><tr><td><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span>Coarse material, max 20%<br /> </span></td><td><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span>Retained by sieve mesh width, mm<br /> </span></td><td><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span>16<br /> </span></td><td><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span>31.5<br /> </span></td><td><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span>63<br /> </span></td></tr><tr><td><span class="Black_Text">Main material, 60 to 100%</span></td><td><span class="Black_Text">Retained by sieve mesh width, mm</span></td><td><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span>2.8</span></td><td><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span>5.6</span></td><td><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span>11.2<br /> </span></td></tr><tr><td><span class="Black_Text">Fine material (inc dust), max 20%</span></td><td><span class="Black_Text">Retained by sieve mesh width, mm</span></td><td><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span>1</span></td><td><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span>1</span></td><td> <p class="Black_Text_Small"><span class="Black_Text"> 1 <br /> </span> </p> </td></tr><tr><td><span class="Black_Text">Dust, max 4% </span></td><td><span class="Black_Text">Passing sieve mesh width, mm</span></td><td><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span>1</span></td><td><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span>1</span></td><td> <p class="Black_Text_Small"><span class="Black_Text">1</span></p> </td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text">Lower cost wood fuels suitable for moving floor and ram stoker systems (for 1.5MW plus process\commercial heat and CHP projects) will have a different specification. The Estate does not intend to produce this type of fuel at this stage.</span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span></span><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div align="justify"></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><a name="Fuelspecificationsandprices" id="Fuelspecificationsandprices"></a>Callendar Estate Biomass Fuel</span></span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"></span><span class="Black_Text">Suppliers of Biomass Fuel to FSC standards, ensuring continuity of long term supplies, Callendar Estate, located in the heart of central Scotland, provides fuel with moisture content and chip size produced to meet clients’ specific boiler requirements. Price per kW.h, MW.h or tonnes.<br /> <br /> </span><span class="Black_Text"></span><span class="Black_Text"></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold">For more information</span></span> contact Iain Ross, Biomass Manager, by telephone on 01324 624236 or mobile number 07710142879. Alternatively <u><span class="MidGreen_Text_Bold"><a href="javascript:redirect("enquiries")" title="Send an e-mail enquiry to Callendar Estate">click here to send an e-mail.</a></span></u></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"></span> </span></div><span class="Black_Text"> </span><span class="Green_Text_Small"><span class="Green_Text_Small">Callendar Estate sustainable grown timber for Biomass Fuel<br /> </span></span></div>
BeSpoke Graded Cycle Route through the Callendar Estate
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Heizohak 14 800 chipping timber from Callendar Estate for biomass fuel
Lionthorn residents meet the landlowner, 2000
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Heizohak 14 800 blowing chipped wood fuel into the storage depot
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Timber storage area and wood fuel depot near Craigieburn Farm
Rebellion Paintballers in Loanfoot Wood
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Local children get involved in path building in 2006
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Lionthorn path before improvement
Lionthorn path after improvement
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School children from St Joseph`s Primary School, Drum Wood, 2006
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