tarboat's photos with the keyword: biomass

On a wet day in Rochdale 60 002 heads the biomass empties from Drax power station back to Liverpool Docks.

These three silos at Gladstone Dock in Liverpool have a combined capacity of 100,000 tonnes of wood pellets for use at Drax Power Station in Yorkshire. This terminal was completed in July 2016 with wood pellets being offloaded from vessels utilising Continuous Ship Unloaders, before being deposited into the silos via a conveyor belt system. The pellets are then loaded into block trains for transportation to the power station.

Storage for wood pellets at Drax power station. Four of the six units here are biomass fired with an output of 2,400 Mw. The remaining units will be replaced by gas turbines if planning permission can be obtained.

Storage for the wood pellets burned at Drax power station. Quite how these are 'green' is beyond me as they are brought from the west side of the USA.

Empty biomass hoppers from Drax head away from Barnetby a short time before the semaphore signalling was replaced at this Lincolnshire station.

Biomass storage at Drax power station. Balloon on the outside, concrete on the inside, with a layer of foam sandwiched between. Simple but effective. If water got in they would have thousands of tons of soggy weetabix to dispose of!