The goal of the project is to share installation of biomass combustion for Explore House purposes. The existing installation consist of biomass boiler (straw and other biomass fuels) with storage tank, and monitoring system. The main components od monitoring system are: temperature sensors in ca. 20 points of the installation, exhaust gases analyzer as well as sensors for air and medium flow.

The current activity is: training for students (laboratory facility for subjects: “Renewable energy sources”, “Efficient energy usage and energy storage” and “Thermal measurements”, diploma thesis for students, PhD. thesis (one is in progress, second is planned to start in October). Also events as: Science Festival, “RES Day”, and other demonstrations.

Some research are conducted: fuel properties, efficiency of the heat production, properties of ash. Via internet all this activity can be observed on-line and online users would be able to perform their own measurements and experiments.

Ryc. Visualization of the project structure. The following components are shown: internet infrastructure,
data servers and electronic miontoring/control hardware and other energy sources - planned to install
under the project.

The following problems can be examined by on-line users:
• training in biomass combustion process,
• efficiency of heat production from biomass,
• integration of different kinds of heat and power sources,
• analysis of heat accumulation and distribution,
• implementation of users control algorithms for heat production,
• impact on environment by biomass combustion.