Burning pellets requires a bit of prep. A cleanup of the burn chamber must be performed before each burn. The AVR is programmed to handle this. Once the chamber is clean, new pellets are fed in ...

As the design calls for a specific type of fuel, we can’t comment on its wood-burning efficiency, but we were left with clean ash, amounting to about half the original volume of pellets we added.

Pellet BBQs often require more maintenance ... “Don’t forget to clean out the burn pot to keep your cooking as efficient as possible,” he adds. Gas and electric are easy to maintain, says ...

Plants that burn the pellets can emit varying levels of pollutants ... classified as a hazardous air pollutant under the Clean Air Act. That emissions rate would rank UNC as the sixth-largest ...

Clean-up required scooping ash out ... It fits logs of up to 16 inches but can also burn wood pellets and charcoal. The use of charcoal, along with the optional Outpost Grill attachment, makes ...

after the company decided in late February to cancel plans to build the nation’s largest wood pellet burning plant for energy. “This is enormous,” said Fenna Swart, leader of the Clean Air ...

UNC-Chapel Hill has withdrawn its application to burn pellets made of paper and plastic scraps instead of coal in its power plant on Cameron Avenue. The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality ...