I had a good holiday in Sri Lanka, and returned home on Dec 31st, 2019. After arriving home, I had a seven day break, and returned to work, on Monday Jan 6th. My first job is to attend a vessel in Baltimore tomorrow, Jan 8th.
Today, one of my colleagues went on holidays, and will be away for one month. Work load is building up. But we will not have any pressure because all in Gods time.
Holiday in Sri Lanka
After quite a hectic work schedule, I applied for a month's leave to proceed to my native land: Sri Lanka. It was approved and I left home in Mayland, USA where I live with my family on December 3rd, 2019. And, arrived there on December 5th, 2019. This was due to a long lay over in London.
It was great to be back in Sri Lanka. The weather there in the month of December is usually not warm or humid. But, it seems like everything, weather patterns, too have changed. Very warm and humid afternoons and then the thunderstorms associated with lightning and rain showers were experienced in the evenings.
I was able to attend my nephew's wedding, and then a very unfortunate and sad situation of sudden death of a cousin. All in a nut-shell.
Also patronized my clubs, 'Capri' and CR&FC (Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club).
Christmas was peaceful and we had a small family get together at home with live music provided by a three piece 'Calypso band'.
My mother who is topping ninety years came and spent about sixteen days with me. That was great!
"All that starts well, must end well" and, I left Colombo December 30th, and arrived in Maryland on December 31st, 2019.
It was great to be back in Sri Lanka. The weather there in the month of December is usually not warm or humid. But, it seems like everything, weather patterns, too have changed. Very warm and humid afternoons and then the thunderstorms associated with lightning and rain showers were experienced in the evenings.
I was able to attend my nephew's wedding, and then a very unfortunate and sad situation of sudden death of a cousin. All in a nut-shell.
Also patronized my clubs, 'Capri' and CR&FC (Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club).
Christmas was peaceful and we had a small family get together at home with live music provided by a three piece 'Calypso band'.
My mother who is topping ninety years came and spent about sixteen days with me. That was great!
"All that starts well, must end well" and, I left Colombo December 30th, and arrived in Maryland on December 31st, 2019.
Wood pellets
Pellet fuels (or pellets) are biofuels made from compressed organic matter or biomass.[1] Pellets can be made from any one of five general categories of biomass: industrial waste and co-products, food waste, agricultural residues, energy crops, and virgin lumber.[2] Wood pellets are the most common type of pellet fuel and are generally made from compacted sawdust[3] and related industrial wastes from the milling of lumber, manufacture of wood products and furniture, and construction.[4] Other industrial waste sources include empty fruit bunches, palm kernel shells, coconut shells, and tree tops and branches discarded during logging operations.[5][6] So-called "black pellets" are made of biomass, refined to resemble hard coal and were developed to be used in existing coal-fired power plants.[7] Pellets are categorized by their heating value, moisture and ash content, and dimensions. They can be used as fuels for power generation, commercial or residential heating, and cooking.[8] Pellets are extremely dense and can be produced with a low moisture content (below 10%) that allows them to be burned with a very high combustion efficiency.[9]
Further, their regular geometry and small size allow automatic feeding with very fine calibration. They can be fed to a burner by auger feeding or by pneumatic conveying. Their high density also permits compact storage and transport over long distance. They can be conveniently blown from a tanker to a storage bunker or silo on a customer's premises.[10]
A broad range of pellet stoves, central heating furnaces, and other heating appliances have been developed and marketed since the mid-1980s.[11] In 1997 fully automatic wood pellet boilers with similar comfort level as oil and gas boilers became available in Austria.[12] With the surge in the price of fossil fuels since 2005, the demand for pellet heating has increased in Europe and North America, and a sizable industry is emerging. According to the International Energy Agency Task 40, wood pellet production has more than doubled between 2006 and 2010 to over 14 million tons.[13] In a 2012 report, the Biomass Energy Resource Center says that it expects wood pellet production in North America to double again in the next five years.
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellet_fuel
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellet_fuel
Long absence from the blog...
It seems that, I have not updated the blog for nearly five months. From about July to December each year, there are a lot of wood pellets in bulk loaded on the East Coast of U.S. We are in charge of most of the vessels that load this cargo in Chesapeake, Virginia, Wilmington, North Carolina, Panama City, Florida and Savannah, Georgia.
From about early July to early November last year, I kept shuttling between Chesapeake and Wilmington. I was in charge to see the vessel pass the Hold cleanliness inspection and thereafter load maximum cargo the vessel could carry, considering stability parameters and draft restrictions.
The above is not an excuse for being away from the blog, but the type of work I was involved in, has a major role to play in that.
From about early July to early November last year, I kept shuttling between Chesapeake and Wilmington. I was in charge to see the vessel pass the Hold cleanliness inspection and thereafter load maximum cargo the vessel could carry, considering stability parameters and draft restrictions.
The above is not an excuse for being away from the blog, but the type of work I was involved in, has a major role to play in that.
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