Over 90 people participated in the Wood Pellet Association of Canada, FutureMetrics and Ørsted hosted a half-day BECCS tour and a one-day workshop—Safe Wood Pellet Storage: Preventing, Detecting, and Managing Self-Heating Incidents in Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2-3, 2025. Special thanks to our sponsor Firefly. See below for the presentations during the Workshop.
Session 1
Case Studies on Major Incidents that Resulted from Runaway Self-Heating – Consequences and Lessons Learned
- Studstrup Wood Pellet Silo Fire, Jens Kai Holm, Chief Specialist, Ørsted
- Canadian and Japanese Case Studies, John Swaan, Operations and Project Development Expert, FutureMetrics
Session 2
- Technical Deep Dive: Causes, Contributing Factors, and Detection Methods for Self-Heating, Fahimeh Yazdan Panah, Associate Executive Director, Wood Pellet Association of Canada
Session 3
- Minimizing Self-Heating Risk in Wood Pellet Storages, Jens Kai Holm, Chief Specialist, Ørsted
Session 4
- Detecting a Self-heating Incident: Early Warnings and Beyond, Håkan Johansson, Division Manager – Senior Advisor, Firefly
Session 5
- If an Incident Happens: Effective Approaches for Mitigation and What NOT to Do!, John Swaan, Operations and Project Development Expert, FutureMetrics
Open Forum: Industry Collaboration for Safer Pellet Storage
- Biomass Pelleting Safety: Fire and Explosion Summary, Lars T. Bloch, Plant Solution Manager, Capital Business, ANDRITZ FEED & BIOFUEL
- An Experimental Measurement Technique to Detect Self-heating in Biomass, Baldeep Kaur, Senior Lecturer, The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, University of Greenwich