Biomass
Biofuels
Ecosystem
Soil
Carbon
Energy-Generating Resources
Trees
Lignin
The most abundant natural aromatic organic polymer found in all vascular plants. Lignin together with cellulose and hemicellulose are the major cell wall components of the fibers of all wood and grass species. Lignin is composed of coniferyl, p-coumaryl, and sinapyl alcohols in varying ratios in different plant species. (From Merck Index, 11th ed)
Nitrogen
Wood
Poaceae
Carbon Cycle
Plant Roots
Bioreactors
Tools or devices for generating products using the synthetic or chemical conversion capacity of a biological system. They can be classical fermentors, cell culture perfusion systems, or enzyme bioreactors. For production of proteins or enzymes, recombinant microorganisms such as bacteria, mammalian cells, or insect or plant cells are usually chosen.
Photobioreactors
Microalgae
Fermentation
Phytoplankton
Free-floating minute organisms that are photosynthetic. The term is non-taxonomic and refers to a lifestyle (energy utilization and motility), rather than a particular type of organism. Most, but not all, are unicellular algae. Important groups include DIATOMS; DINOFLAGELLATES; CYANOBACTERIA; CHLOROPHYTA; HAPTOPHYTA; CRYPTOMONADS; and silicoflagellates.
Biodiversity
Fossil Fuels
Cooking
Plant Development
Cellulases
A family of glycosidases that hydrolyse crystalline CELLULOSE into soluble sugar molecules. Within this family there are a variety of enzyme subtypes with differing substrate specificities that must work together to bring about complete cellulose hydrolysis. They are found in structures called CELLULOSOMES.
Plant Leaves
Biotechnology
Body of knowledge related to the use of organisms, cells or cell-derived constituents for the purpose of developing products which are technically, scientifically and clinically useful. Alteration of biologic function at the molecular level (i.e., GENETIC ENGINEERING) is a central focus; laboratory methods used include TRANSFECTION and CLONING technologies, sequence and structure analysis algorithms, computer databases, and gene and protein structure function analysis and prediction.
Panicum
Food Chain
The sequence of transfers of matter and energy from organism to organism in the form of FOOD. Food chains intertwine locally into a food web because most organisms consume more than one type of animal or plant. PLANTS, which convert SOLAR ENERGY to food by PHOTOSYNTHESIS, are the primary food source. In a predator chain, a plant-eating animal is eaten by a larger animal. In a parasite chain, a smaller organism consumes part of a larger host and may itself be parasitized by smaller organisms. In a saprophytic chain, microorganisms live on dead organic matter.
Conservation of Natural Resources
Tropical Climate
Biodegradation, Environmental
Cellulose
A polysaccharide with glucose units linked as in CELLOBIOSE. It is the chief constituent of plant fibers, cotton being the purest natural form of the substance. As a raw material, it forms the basis for many derivatives used in chromatography, ion exchange materials, explosives manufacturing, and pharmaceutical preparations.
Plant Stems
Photosynthesis
The synthesis by organisms of organic chemical compounds, especially carbohydrates, from carbon dioxide using energy obtained from light rather than from the oxidation of chemical compounds. Photosynthesis comprises two separate processes: the light reactions and the dark reactions. In higher plants; GREEN ALGAE; and CYANOBACTERIA; NADPH and ATP formed by the light reactions drive the dark reactions which result in the fixation of carbon dioxide. (from Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2001)
Soil Microbiology
Fisheries
Carbon Sequestration
Industrial Microbiology
Renewable Energy
Phosphorus
Seasons
Population Dynamics
Fertilizers
Autotrophic Processes
The processes by which organisms use simple inorganic substances such as gaseous or dissolved carbon dioxide and inorganic nitrogen as nutrient sources. Contrasts with heterotrophic processes which make use of organic materials as the nutrient supply source. Autotrophs can be either chemoautotrophs (or chemolithotrophs), largely ARCHAEA and BACTERIA, which also use simple inorganic substances for their metabolic energy reguirements; or photoautotrophs (or photolithotrophs), such as PLANTS and CYANOBACTERIA, which derive their energy from light. Depending on environmental conditions some organisms can switch between different nutritional modes (autotrophy; HETEROTROPHY; chemotrophy; or PHOTOTROPHY) to utilize different sources to meet their nutrient and energy requirements.
Oceans and Seas
Carbon Dioxide
Bacteria
One of the three domains of life (the others being Eukarya and ARCHAEA), also called Eubacteria. They are unicellular prokaryotic microorganisms which generally possess rigid cell walls, multiply by cell division, and exhibit three principal forms: round or coccal, rodlike or bacillary, and spiral or spirochetal. Bacteria can be classified by their response to OXYGEN: aerobic, anaerobic, or facultatively anaerobic; by the mode by which they obtain their energy: chemotrophy (via chemical reaction) or PHOTOTROPHY (via light reaction); for chemotrophs by their source of chemical energy: CHEMOLITHOTROPHY (from inorganic compounds) or chemoorganotrophy (from organic compounds); and by their source for CARBON; NITROGEN; etc.; HETEROTROPHY (from organic sources) or AUTOTROPHY (from CARBON DIOXIDE). They can also be classified by whether or not they stain (based on the structure of their CELL WALLS) with CRYSTAL VIOLET dye: gram-negative or gram-positive.
Culture Media
Any liquid or solid preparation made specifically for the growth, storage, or transport of microorganisms or other types of cells. The variety of media that exist allow for the culturing of specific microorganisms and cell types, such as differential media, selective media, test media, and defined media. Solid media consist of liquid media that have been solidified with an agent such as AGAR or GELATIN.
Eucalyptus
Waste Products
Agriculture
Fungi
A kingdom of eukaryotic, heterotrophic organisms that live parasitically as saprobes, including MUSHROOMS; YEASTS; smuts, molds, etc. They reproduce either sexually or asexually, and have life cycles that range from simple to complex. Filamentous fungi, commonly known as molds, refer to those that grow as multicellular colonies.
Heterotrophic Processes
The processes by which organisms utilize organic substances as their nutrient sources. Contrasts with AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES which make use of simple inorganic substances as the nutrient supply source. Heterotrophs can be either chemoheterotrophs (or chemoorganotrophs) which also require organic substances such as glucose for their primary metabolic energy requirements, or photoheterotrophs (or photoorganotrophs) which derive their primary energy requirements from light. Depending on environmental conditions some organisms can switch between different nutritional modes (AUTOTROPHY; heterotrophy; chemotrophy; or PHOTOTROPHY) to utilize different sources to meet their nutrients and energy requirements.
Droughts
Plankton
Heating
Seaweed
Multicellular marine macroalgae including some members of red (RHODOPHYTA), green (CHLOROPHYTA), and brown (PHAEOPHYTA) algae. They are widely distributed in the ocean, occurring from the tide level to considerable depths, free-floating (planktonic) or anchored to the substratum (benthic). They lack a specialized vascular system but take up fluids, nutrients, and gases directly from the water. They contain CHLOROPHYLL and are photosynthetic, but some also contain other light-absorbing pigments. Many are of economic importance as FOOD, fertilizer, AGAR, potash, or source of IODINE.
Crops, Agricultural
Cladocera
Plants
Multicellular, eukaryotic life forms of kingdom Plantae (sensu lato), comprising the VIRIDIPLANTAE; RHODOPHYTA; and GLAUCOPHYTA; all of which acquired chloroplasts by direct endosymbiosis of CYANOBACTERIA. They are characterized by a mainly photosynthetic mode of nutrition; essentially unlimited growth at localized regions of cell divisions (MERISTEMS); cellulose within cells providing rigidity; the absence of organs of locomotion; absence of nervous and sensory systems; and an alternation of haploid and diploid generations.
Eutrophication
The enrichment of a terrestrial or aquatic ECOSYSTEM by the addition of nutrients, especially nitrogen and phosphorus, that results in a superabundant growth of plants, ALGAE, or other primary producers. It can be a natural process or result from human activity such as agriculture runoff or sewage pollution. In aquatic ecosystems, an increase in the algae population is termed an algal bloom.
Rivers
Geologic Sediments
A mass of organic or inorganic solid fragmented material, or the solid fragment itself, that comes from the weathering of rock and is carried by, suspended in, or dropped by air, water, or ice. It refers also to a mass that is accumulated by any other natural agent and that forms in layers on the earth's surface, such as sand, gravel, silt, mud, fill, or loess. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed, p1689)
Temperature
Metabolic Engineering
Models, Biological
Mycorrhizae
Symbiotic combination (dual organism) of the MYCELIUM of FUNGI with the roots of plants (PLANT ROOTS). The roots of almost all higher plants exhibit this mutually beneficial relationship, whereby the fungus supplies water and mineral salts to the plant, and the plant supplies CARBOHYDRATES to the fungus. There are two major types of mycorrhizae: ectomycorrhizae and endomycorrhizae.
Chlorophyll
Alnus
Fishes
Typhaceae
Zosteraceae
Cellulase
Regulation of the start of DNA replication in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. (1/2814)
Cells of Schizosaccharomyces pombe were grown in minimal medium with different nitrogen sources under steady-state conditions, with doubling times ranging from 2.5 to 14 hours. Flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy confirmed earlier findings that at rapid growth rates, the G1 phase was short and cell separation occurred at the end of S phase. For some nitrogen sources, the growth rate was greatly decreased, the G1 phase occupied 30-50% of the cell cycle, and cell separation occurred in early G1. In contrast, other nitrogen sources supported low growth rates without any significant increase in G1 duration. The method described allows manipulation of the length of G1 and the relative cell cycle position of S phase in wild-type cells. Cell mass was measured by flow cytometry as scattered light and as protein-associated fluorescence. The extensions of G1 were not related to cell mass at entry into S phase. Our data do not support the hypothesis that the cells must reach a certain fixed, critical mass before entry into S. We suggest that cell mass at the G1/S transition point is variable and determined by a set of molecular parameters. In the present experiments, these parameters were influenced by the different nitrogen sources in a way that was independent of the actual growth rate. (+info)Temperature and pH conditions that prevail during fermentation of sausages are optimal for production of the antilisterial bacteriocin sakacin K. (2/2814)
Sakacin K is an antilisterial bacteriocin produced by Lactobacillus sake CTC 494, a strain isolated from Spanish dry fermented sausages. The biokinetics of cell growth and bacteriocin production of L. sake CTC 494 in vitro during laboratory fermentations were investigated by making use of MRS broth. The data obtained from the fermentations was used to set up a predictive model to describe the influence of the physical factors temperature and pH on microbial behavior. The model was validated successfully for all components. However, the specific bacteriocin production rate seemed to have an upper limit. Both cell growth and bacteriocin activity were very much influenced by changes in temperature and pH. The production of biomass was closely related to bacteriocin activity, indicating primary metabolite kinetics, but was not the only factor of importance. Acidity dramatically influenced both the production and the inactivation of sakacin K; the optimal pH for cell growth did not correspond to the pH for maximal sakacin K activity. Furthermore, cells grew well at 35 degrees C but no bacteriocin production could be detected at this temperature. L. sake CTC 494 shows special promise for implementation as a novel bacteriocin-producing sausage starter culture with antilisterial properties, considering the fact that the temperature and acidity conditions that prevail during the fermentation process of dry fermented sausages are optimal for the production of sakacin K. (+info)The role of benzoate in anaerobic degradation of terephthalate. (3/2814)
The effects of acetate, benzoate, and periods without substrate on the anaerobic degradation of terephthalate (1, 4-benzene-dicarboxylate) by a syntrophic methanogenic culture were studied. The culture had been enriched on terephthalate and was capable of benzoate degradation without a lag phase. When incubated with a mixture of benzoate and terephthalate, subsequent degradation with preference for benzoate was observed. Both benzoate and acetate inhibited the anaerobic degradation of terephthalate. The observed inhibition is partially irreversible, resulting in a decrease (or even a complete loss) of the terephthalate-degrading activity after complete degradation of benzoate or acetate. Irreversible inhibition was characteristic for terephthalate degradation only because the inhibition of benzoate degradation by acetate could well be described by reversible noncompetitive product inhibition. Terephthalate degradation was furthermore irreversibly inhibited by periods without substrate of only a few hours. The inhibition of terephthalate degradation due to periods without substrate could be overcome through incubation of the culture with a mixture of benzoate and terephthalate. In this case no influence of a period without substrate was observed. Based on these observations it is postulated that decarboxylation of terephthalate, resulting in the formation of benzoate, is strictly dependent on the concomitant fermentation of benzoate. In the presence of higher concentrations of benzoate, however, benzoate is the favored substrate over terephthalate, and the culture loses its ability to degrade terephthalate. In order to overcome the inhibition of terephthalate degradation by benzoate and acetate, a two-stage reactor system is suggested for the treatment of wastewater generated during terephthalic acid production. (+info)Citric acid production from xylan and xylan hydrolysate by semi-solid culture of Aspergillus niger. (4/2814)
Citric acid production from xylan and xylan hydrolysate was done by Aspergillus niger Yang no. 2 cultivated in a semi-solid culture using bagasse as a carrier. Yang no. 2 produced 72.4 g/l and 52.6 g/l of citric acid in 5 d from 140 g/l of xylose and arabinose, respectively. Yang no. 2 produced 51.6 g/l of citric acid in 3 d from a concentrated xylan hydrolysate prepared by cellulase treatment, containing 100 g/l of reducing sugars. Moreover, Yang no. 2 directly produced 39.6 g/l of citric acid maximally in 3 d from 140 g/l of xylan. (+info)High-rate anaerobic treatment of wastewater at low temperatures. (5/2814)
Anaerobic treatment of a volatile fatty acid (VFA) mixture was investigated under psychrophilic (3 to 8 degrees C) conditions in two laboratory-scale expanded granular sludge bed reactor stages in series. The reactor system was seeded with mesophilic methanogenic granular sludge and fed with a mixture of VFAs. Good removal of fatty acids was achieved in the two-stage system. Relative high levels of propionate were present in the effluent of the first stage, but propionate was efficiently removed in the second stage, where a low hydrogen partial pressure and a low acetate concentration were advantageous for propionate oxidation. The specific VFA-degrading activities of the sludge in each of the modules doubled during system operation for 150 days, indicating a good enrichment of methanogens and proton-reducing acetogenic bacteria at such low temperatures. The specific degradation rates of butyrate, propionate, and the VFA mixture amounted to 0.139, 0.110, and 0.214 g of chemical oxygen demand g of volatile suspended solids-1 day-1, respectively. The biomass which was obtained after 1.5 years still had a temperature optimum of between 30 and 40 degrees C. (+info)Tessaracoccus bendigoensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a gram-positive coccus occurring in regular packages or tetrads, isolated from activated sludge biomass. (6/2814)
An isolate of a Gram-positive bacterium, designated strain Ben 106T, was obtained in pure culture by micromanipulation of a biomass sample obtained from a laboratory-scale sequencing batch reactor. This isolate grew axenically as cocci or clusters of cocci arranged in regular tetrads and was morphologically similar to the dominant organism observed in the biomass. This morphology resembled that of some Gram-positive and -negative bacteria and the so-called 'G-bacteria' commonly seen in activated sludge samples. Strain Ben 106T is a non-motile, facultative anaerobe. It is oxidase-negative, catalase-positive and is capable of reducing nitrate. This organism can grow between 20 and 37 degrees C, with an optimum temperature of 25 degrees C. The pH range for growth is between 6.0 and 9.0, with an optimum pH of 7.5. The isolate stained positively for intracellular polyphosphate granules. The diagnostic diamino acid of the peptidoglycan is LL-diaminopimelic acid (LL-A2pm) with a glycine moiety at position 1 of the peptide subunit, which characterizes the presence of a rare peptidoglycan (type A3-gamma'). Two menaquinones, MK-9(H4) and MK-7(H4), are present and the main cellular fatty acid is 12-methyltetradecanoic acid. The G + C content is 74 mol%. From phenotypic characteristics and 16S rDNA sequence analysis, the isolate differed sufficiently from its closest phylogenetic relatives, namely Propionibacterium propionicum, Propioniferax innocua, Friedmanniella antarctica, Luteococcus japonicus and Microlunatus phosphovorus in the A1 subdivision of the Gram-positive bacteria (i.e. Firmicutes with a high G + C content), suborder Propionibacterineae, to be placed in a new genus, Tessaracoccus, as Tessaracoccus bendigoensis gen. nov., sp. nov. The type strain is Ben 106T (= ACM 5119T). (+info)Carbon and electron flow in Clostridium cellulolyticum grown in chemostat culture on synthetic medium. (7/2814)
Previous results indicated poor sugar consumption and early inhibition of metabolism and growth when Clostridium cellulolyticum was cultured on medium containing cellobiose and yeast extract. Changing from complex medium to a synthetic medium had a strong effect on (i) the specific cellobiose consumption, which was increased threefold; and (ii) the electron flow, since the NADH/NAD+ ratios ranged from 0.29 to 2.08 on synthetic medium whereas ratios as high as 42 to 57 on complex medium were observed. These data indicate a better control of the carbon flow on mineral salts medium than on complex medium. By continuous culture, it was shown that the electron flow from glycolysis was balanced by the production of hydrogen gas, ethanol, and lactate. At low levels of carbon flow, pyruvate was preferentially cleaved to acetate and ethanol, enabling the bacteria to maximize ATP formation. A high catabolic rate led to pyruvate overflow and to increased ethanol and lactate production. In vitro, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, lactate dehydrogenase, and ethanol dehydrogenase levels were higher under conditions giving higher in vivo specific production rates. Redox balance is essentially maintained by NADH-ferredoxin reductase-hydrogenase at low levels of carbon flow and by ethanol dehydrogenase and lactate dehydrogenase at high levels of carbon flow. The same maximum growth rate (0.150 h-1) was found in both mineral salts and complex media, proving that the uptake of nutrients or the generation of biosynthetic precursors occurred faster than their utilization. On synthetic medium, cellobiose carbon was converted into cell mass and catabolized to produce ATP, while on complex medium, it served mainly as an energy supply and, if present in excess, led to an accumulation of intracellular metabolites as demonstrated for NADH. Cells grown on synthetic medium and at high levels of carbon flow were able to induce regulatory responses such as the production of ethanol and lactate dehydrogenase. (+info)Differentiation of Helicobacter pylori isolates based on lectin binding of cell extracts in an agglutination assay. (8/2814)
Plant and animal lectins with various carbohydrate specificities were used to type 35 Irish clinical isolates of Helicobacter pylori and the type strain NCTC 11637 in a microtiter plate assay. Initially, a panel of eight lectins with the indicated primary specificities were used: Anguilla anguilla (AAA), Lotus tetragonolobus (Lotus A), and Ulex europaeus I (UEA I), specific for alpha-L-fucose; Solanum tuberosum (STA) and Triticum vulgaris (WGA), specific for beta-N-acetylglucosamine; Glycine max (SBA), specific for beta-N-acetylgalactosamine; Erythrina cristagali (ECA), specific for beta-galactose and beta-N-acetylgalactosamine; and Lens culinaris (LCA), specific for alpha-mannose and alpha-glucose. Three of the lectins (SBA, STA, and LCA) were not useful in aiding in strain discrimination. An optimized panel of five lectins (AAA, ECA, Lotus A, UEA I, and WGA) grouped all 36 strains tested into eight lectin reaction patterns. For optimal typing, pretreatment by washing bacteria with a low-pH buffer to allow protein release, followed by proteolytic degradation to eliminate autoagglutination, was used. Lectin types of treated samples were stable and reproducible. No strain proved to be untypeable by this system. Electrophoretic and immunoblotting analyses of lipopolysaccharides (LPSs) indicated that the lectins interact primarily, but not solely, with the O side chain of H. pylori LPS. (+info)
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The influence of algal biomass on tracer experiments in maturation ponds - White Rose Research Online
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Data and non-linear models for the estimation of biomass growth and carbon fixation in managed forests - IFP Energies nouvelles
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Biofuel
This biomass conversion can result in fuel in solid, liquid, or gas form. This new biomass can also be used directly for ... Biofuels made from waste biomass or from biomass grown on abandoned agricultural lands incur little to no carbon debt.[95] ... Second generation biofuels are fuels manufactured from various types of biomass. Biomass is a wide-ranging term meaning any ... Biomass and the Environment - Basics *^ a b "Biofuels Make a Comeback Despite Tough Economy". Worldwatch Institute. 2011-08-31 ...
Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage
10% biomass can reduce 0.5 Gt CO2 per year and with 16% biomass can achieve zero emission.[citation needed] Direct-cofiring (20 ... If biomass sources are not close by the combustion unit, transporting biomass emits CO2 offsetting the amount of CO2 captured ... While each type of biomass has a different heating value, biomass in general is a low-quality fuel. Thermal conversion of ... Due to the moisture content of biomass, it will affect the calorific value of the combustor. In addition, high volatile biomass ...
Carbon sequestration
Biomass-related[edit]. Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage[edit]. Main article: Bio-energy with carbon capture and ... Spath, Pamela L.; Mann, Margaret K. (September 22, 2002). The Net Energy and Global Warming Potential of Biomass Power compared ... Burying biomass (such as trees)[78] directly, mimics the natural processes that created fossil fuels.[79] ... Biochar is charcoal created by pyrolysis of biomass waste. The resulting material is added to a landfill or used as a soil ...
Tree allometry
Biomass functions applicable to European beech[permanent dead link] E. CIENCIALA, M. ČERNÝ, J. APLTAUER, Z. EXNEROVÁ, JOURNAL ... Assessment of forest biomass and carbon stocks[edit]. In 2013, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ... 1983 Allometric biomass equations for 98 species of herbs, shrubs, and small trees. Research note NC-299. USDA Forest Service, ... In 2012, FAO and CIRAD published a manual for building tree volume and biomass allometric equations for students, technicians ...
Palm oil
Biomass and biofuels[edit]. Palm oil is used to produce both methyl ester and hydrodeoxygenated biodiesel.[56] Palm oil methyl ... Biomass Society (Report). Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. 11 December 2010. Archived from the original on ... "Waste not the palm oil biomass". The Star Online. Retrieved 25 February 2013 ...
Extrusion
Biomass briquettes[edit]. Main article: Biomass briquettes. The extrusion production technology of fuel briquettes is the ...
Industrial dye degradation
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Renewable energy in the Netherlands
Biomass[edit]. Sources of biomass in the Netherlands include the biogenic fraction of waste that is burned in waste ... Total biomass 21 649 42 886 12 123 76 657 - *The consumption of biofuels for mobile vehicles in the construction and farming ... Biomass gross final consumption (TJ) by energy sector, 2013. (Data extract).[20] Electricity Heat Transport Total ... Decentralised electricity production from solid biomass and bioliquid 3 904 1 436 5 340 ...
Westmill Solar Co-operative
The Co-operative invited members through a public share offer, launched in June 2012. Despite the tight timetable caused by the expiry date on the option,[3] the issue was 50% over-subscribed,[4] when it closed at the end of July. This raised £4m from c. 1,650 members.[5] An additional c. £2m was raised by a private placement of B-Shares, mainly from members who had subscribed to the original issue. ...
Plasma gasification
Biomass Program. 2011-11-21.. *^ "The Plasma Arc Waste Destruction System to Reduce Waste Aboard CVN-78, pg. 13". Seaframe - ... "Alter NRG Announces Commissioning of Biomass Gasifier at Waste To Liquids Facility in China" (Press release). Alter NRG. ... biomass, industrial waste, hazardous waste, and solid hydrocarbons, such as coal, oil sands, petcoke and oil shale.[2] ...
Sellafield
Between 1950 and 2000, there were 21 serious incidents or accidents involving off-site radiological releases that warranted a rating on the International Nuclear Event Scale, one at level 5, five at level 4 and fifteen at level 3. Additionally during the 1950s and 1960s there were protracted periods of known, deliberate discharges to the atmosphere of plutonium and irradiated uranium oxide particulates.[81] These frequent incidents, together with the large 2005 THORP plant leak which was not detected for nine months, have led some to doubt the effectiveness of the managerial processes and safety culture on the site over the years. In the effort to build an independent British nuclear weapon in the 1940s and 1950s, the Sellafield plant was constructed; diluted radioactive waste was discharged by pipeline into the Irish Sea.[82] Greenpeace claims that the Irish Sea remains one of the most heavily contaminated seas in the world because of these discharges.[83] Ocean scientist David Assinger has ...
Plasma gasification
Biomass Program. 2011-11-21.. *^ "The Plasma Arc Waste Destruction System to Reduce Waste Aboard CVN-78, pg. 13". Seaframe - ... It is used commercially as a form of waste treatment and has been tested for the gasification of refuse-derived fuel, biomass, ... Processing of biomass waste into combustible syngas for electric power and thermal energy[14] ... The feedstock for plasma waste treatment is most often refuse-derived fuel, biomass waste, or both. Feedstocks may also include ...
Algae fuel
"Productive usage of biomass". Retrieved 29 May 2015.. *^ "Algae Biomass Organization, Renewable, Sustainable Commodities from ... Assuming that the biomass contains 30% oil by weight, the cost of biomass for providing a liter of oil would be approximately $ ... "Biomass Magazine.. *^ a b c d Andrew Herndon (20 March 2013). "Tesoro is first customer for Sapphire's algae-derived crude oil" ... One of its most current divisions is the biomass program which is involved in biomass characterization, biochemical and ...
Typha
Dubbe, D.R.; Garver, E.G.; Pratt, D.C. (1988). "Production of cattail (Typha spp.) biomass in Minnesota, USA". Biomass. 17 (2 ...
Greenhouse gas
"Laboratory Comparison of the Global-Warming Potential of Six Categories of Biomass Cooking Stoves" (PDF). Approvecho Research ...
Cellulosic ethanol
Biomass and agricultural biomass. In the US, about 1.4 billion dry tons of biomass can be sustainably produced annually. About ... forest biomass has significant advantages over agricultural biomass. Forest biomass also has high density which significantly ... forest biomass will be an important biomass feedstock supply mix in the future biobased economy. However, forest biomass is ... Colusa Biomass Energy Corporation. Sacramento, CA. Waste rice straw Coskata. Warrenville, IL. Biomass, Agricultural and ...
Biopolymer
... s (also called renewable polymers) are produced from biomass for use in the packaging industry. Biomass comes from ... Biomass , (fermentation) , Bioethanol , Ethene , Polyethylene. Many types of packaging can be made from biopolymers: food trays ...
Food web
It is the case that the biomass of each trophic level decreases from the base of the chain to the top. This is because energy ... Top right: A three layer trophic pyramid linked to the biomass and energy flow concepts. Bottom: Illustration of a range of ... In some instances biomass pyramids can be inverted. This pattern is often identified in aquatic and coral reef ecosystems. The ... Biomass represents stored energy. However, concentration and quality of nutrients and energy is variable. Many plant fibers, ...
Artemis 1
The flight now named Artemis 1, was originally named by NASA Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) in 2012, when it was set to launch in 2017 as the first planned flight of the Space Launch System and the second uncrewed test flight of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle where Orion was to perform a circumlunar trajectory during a seven-day mission.[4][10] Before then, this initial flight had been referred to as Space Launch System 1 or SLS-1. On 16 January 2013, NASA announced that the European Space Agency will build the European Service Module based on its Automated Transfer Vehicle, so the flight could also be regarded as a test of ESA hardware as well as American, and of how the ESA components interact with the American Orion components.[11] The Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1) flight article was consciously constructed[when?] in a way that if all the missing components (seats, life support systems) were added, it would not meet the mass target.[citation needed] In January 2015, NASA and Lockheed ...
Biodiesel
For biomass and organic waste-to-fuel production, see Biomass to liquid. For unmodified vegetable oil used as motor fuel, see ... Xuan, J.; Leung, M. K. H.; Leung, D. Y. C.; Ni, M. A review of biomass-derived fuel processors for fuel cell systems. Renewable ... Monyem, A.; Van Gerpen, J. (2001). "The effect of biodiesel oxidation on engine performance and emissions". Biomass Bioenergy. ... "Microbes Produce Fuels Directly from Biomass". News Center. Retrieved 30 May 2015.. ...
European Launcher Development Organisation
BIOMASS (2021). *EarthCARE (2021). *MetOp-SG-A (2021). *SMILE (2021). *MetOp-SG-B (2022) ...
Dunaliella salina
Algae Biomass. Amsterdam: Elsevier; 1980. pp. 603-610. Ben-Amotz A, Avron M. Accumulation of metabolites by halotolerant algae ...
Microorganism
Kitani, Osumu; Carl W. Hall (1989). Biomass Handbook. Taylor & Francis US. p. 256. ISBN 978-2-88124-269-4. .. ... accounting for at least half the biomass on Earth.[49] ...
Solar energy
Photosynthesis captures approximately 3,000 EJ per year in biomass.[13] The amount of solar energy reaching the surface of the ... energy consumption has steadily transitioned from wood and biomass to fossil fuels. The early development of solar technologies ... wood and the biomass from which fossil fuels are derived.[9] ...
KDS Micronex
"Integrated Size Reduction and Separation to Pre-Fractionate Biomass" (PDF). Annual Report to Congress on the Biomass Research ... Recovery of fuel and clay from a biomass - US Patent # 7,481,385 Grinding and drying characteristics[edit]. The KDS Micronex ... "Biomass Products & Technology". February 2010. Archived from the original on 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2010-05-04.. ... United States Department of Agriculture to research "Integrated Size Reduction and Separation to Pre-Fractionate Biomass"[8][9] ...
Metachronal swimming
Using this technique, animals propel significant portion of earth's aquatic biomass. As an example, the biomass of a sole ... BIOMASS Sci. Ser. , 3 , 1-121. *^ Swadling, K. M.; Ritz, D. A.; Nicol, S.; Osborn, J. E.; Gurney, L. J. (2005-01-08). " ... BIOMASS Sci Ser 3: 1-122. *^ Stamhuis, E. J.; Videler, J. J. (1998a). "Burrow ventilation in the tube-dwelling shrimp ( ... Atkinson, A.; Siegel, V.; Pakhomov, E.A.; Jessopp, M.J.; Loeb, V. (May 2009). "A re-appraisal of the total biomass and annual ...
Biofuel
Since biomass technically can be used as a fuel directly (e.g. wood logs), some people use the terms biomass and biofuel ... Biofuels made from waste biomass or from biomass grown on abandoned agricultural lands incur little to no carbon debt.[105] ... Second generation biofuels are fuels manufactured from various types of biomass. Biomass is a wide-ranging term meaning any ... "Biomass Magazine. Retrieved 14 August 2012.. *^ Albrecht, KO; Hallen, RT (March 2011). "A Brief Literature Overview of Various ...
Husk
Biomass Utilization. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781475708332. Archived from the original on 2017-12-12. ...
Timeline of alcohol fuel
"Boosting Biomass-to...Butanol?". Green Car Congress. 20 July 2005. Retrieved 2008-01-29.. ...
Sunflower oil
Biomass and Bioenergy. 42: 164-71. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link) Cox, Jeff (April 1979). "The Sunflower Seed Huller ...
UK biomass CHP plant begins commissioning | Biomassmagazine.com
A biomass combined-heat-and-power (CHP) project in southwest England is beginning the final phase of commissioning and is on ... A biomass combined-heat-and-power (CHP) project in southwest England is beginning the final phase of commissioning and is on ... UK biomass CHP plant begins commissioning By Erin Voegele , February 19, 2018 ...
biomass - Wiktionary
biomass (usually uncountable, plural biomasses). *The total mass of a living thing or part thereof, such as a cell. *2005, ... Since protein constitutes the majority of the biomass of a cell, building new protein is a major way that cells increase their ... sharks make up 75 per cent of the fish biomass.. ...
Sources biomass
... and degradable aquatic biomass. Process inputs can give small industries… ... Sources biomass * 1. BIOENERGY 1. Biomass: sources, characteristics & preparation: Sources and classification of biomass ... Reference: Forests as biomass energy resources in India by B. N. Dwivedi and O. N. Kaul in Biomass Energy Systems, Edited by P. ... Biomass & Bio-energy 14, no5-6, pp 479-488, 1998 A techno-economic evaluation of biomass briquetteing in India A.K.Tripathi, ...
Agricultural biomass | European Commission
An outline of the different types of biomass produced by agriculture, and how their production must meet environmental ... Biomass resources in agriculture. Biomass is derived from organic material such as trees, plants, and agricultural and urban ... Sustainable biomass production. Production of agricultural biomass in the EU, whether used for food, feed, material or energy, ... The majority of biomass produced by EU agriculture comes in the form of biogas, and feedstocks for making biodiesel and ...
What Is Biomass?
Biomass is another earth-friendly source of energy. ... Biomass gasification involves heating biomass under pressure in ... Types of biomass include wood, crops, landfill gas, alcohol fuels and trash. Biomass can either be a waste product or grown ... Co-firing mixes biomass with coal at coal-fired power plants, which may offer a transitional means of somewhat cleaner energy ... In short, biomass is organic material made by living organisms that contains stored energy from the sun. Plants absorb radiant ...
Biomass | Mass.gov
Home Heating with Biomass Humans have heated their dwellings and cooked their food with wood (biomass) for thousands of years. ... Commercial Heating with Biomass Biomass is also considered a viable source of renewable thermal energy for the commercial ... Biomass Biomass is organic matter, including plant material that may be considered fuel and used as an energy source. ... Biomass Incentive and Grant Programs To help achieve sustainability and meet carbon reduction goals the State currently has ...
Ppt biomass study mnre
EVALUATION STUDY ON PROGRAMME FORGRID-CONNECTED BIOMASS POWER, BAGASSE COGENERATION AND NON-BAGASSE COGENERATION IN INDUSTRIES ... EVALUATION OF BIOMASS POWER PLANTS The evaluation of biomass power plants is categorized into the following: Biomass as a ... Another way through which biomass is procured is through biomass agents who buy biomass from farmers, store it for months ... biomass sector is 17,000 MW 5% of land use for biomass generation increases the biomass power potential to 32,000 MW ...
Infocast Debuts Biomass Trade & Transport Summit
Infocast is scheduled to present its first Biomass Trade & Transport Summit in Charlotte, North Carolina, ... Infocast Biomass Trade & Transport Summit BrochureInfocasts Biomass Trade & Transport Summit is an unprecedented opportunity ... long-term flow of biomass, and what infrastructures are required for efficient biomass logistics in a supply chain. The ... Due to foreign initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emission, the demand for US export of biomass to Europe and Asia has ...
Woody Biomass Utilization News and Events
... assists communities and businesses for biomass removal and market development, and develops and deploys the science and ... The Forest Service manages and utilizes biomass on national forests, ... technology to better manage and utilize biomass resources. ... Woody Biomass Utilization *Home. *What is Woody Biomass ... Incentives for Biomass Utilization at the Federal Level (PDF, 0.4 MB) - presentation by Marcia Patton-Mallory, PhD, Biomass and ...
Carbon Monoxide from Biomass Burning
Biomass Power Generates Traction - WSJ
Bioethanol from Lignocellulosic Biomass | SpringerLink
Biomass Plant matter of recent (nongeologic) origin. Cellulase One or more enzymes that catalyze the reaction of water with ... Cellulosic biomass Also known as lignocellulosic biomass, the structural part of plants that is not edible by humans and ... Cummer KR, Brown RC (2002) Ancillary equipment for biomass gasification. Biomass Bioenergy 23:113-128CrossRefGoogle Scholar ... Wyman CE (1995). Biomass-derived oxygenates for transportation fuels. Proceedings - biomass conference of the Americas: energy ...
Biomass News » Topix
News for Biomass continually updated from thousands of sources on the web : Sacramento Municipal Utility DISTRICTRagingWires ... Biomass News. News on Biomass continually updated from thousands of sources around the net. ... Connecticut to phase down value of biomass, landfill gas RECs Friday Feb 16 , World News Report , ...
Biomass » Games » Surfnetkids
Collect biomass lines to prevent overload and test tube explosion.Collect more biomass lines by a click to get more food. ... Surviving Armageddon and post apocalyptic hunger is now fun and addictive because of Biomass! Featuring unique game play ... Click on a cell to infect same color cells touching red areas and to produce biomass. ...
North American Biomass Gasification and Pyrolysis Market
The biomass gasification and pyrolysis market in North America is expected to experience high growth during the next few years ... Biomass Gasification and Pyrolysis Market: Capital Cost and Generation Cost Ranges by Technology (North America), 2010 Slide 51 ... Biomass Gasification and Pyrolysis Market: Market Drivers Ranked in Order of Impact (North America), 2011-2017 Slide 27 ... Biomass Gasification and Pyrolysis Market: Market Restraints Ranked in Order of Impact (North America), 2011-2017 Slide 32 ...
McNeil biomass plant - Burlington, VT - EcoAdvocates NW
Biomass: Threatening the Climate and the Forest Center for Biological Diversity. 2.16.10. Forest Biomass: Forest Use or Forest ... Forest Biomass from Public Lands slideshow. Energy Eugene at YouTube.com. 5.06.09. Wildfire Hysteria and "Forest Biomass" ... Forest biomass "mythbusters". Massachusetts Forest Watch. 4.11.09. (St)Umpqua Banks "eco-banking" greenwash. 4.2.09. Wood ... Photo of Forest Biomass Facility using Whole Trees. 1.27.10. Effects of Forest Fires on Carbon Emissions Overstated. ...
Biomass Deconstruction and Pretreatment | Bioenergy | NREL
Biomass Deconstruction and Pretreatment. Our mission is to transform lignocellulose into intermediate streams with low toxicity ... The majority of the pretreatment and biomass deconstruction equipment is located in the NREL Integrated Biorefinery Research ... After chemical and/or mechanical deconstruction, an enzymatic hydrolysis is performed to convert biomass polysaccharides into ... by noble metal and acid zeoloite catalytic upgrading of biomass-derived lignin waste streams from the NREL-developed ...
23rd European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
The biomass distribution on Earth | PNAS
A) Absolute biomass is represented using a Voronoi diagram, with the area of each cell being proportional to the global biomass ... General framework for estimating global biomass. The procedure begins with local samples of biomass across the globe. The more ... Graphical representation of the global biomass distribution by taxa. (A) Absolute biomasses of different taxa are represented ... we extrapolate the biomass across the entire globe. The resolution of the resulting biomass distribution map is dependent on ...
The biomass distribution on Earth | PNAS
The sampling of biomass in each location can be based on direct biomass measurements or conversion to biomass from other types ... Choice of Units for Measuring Biomass.. Biomass is reported in gigatons of carbon. Alternative options to represent biomass ... Aboveground biomass (≈320 Gt C) represents ≈60% of global biomass, with belowground biomass composed mainly of plant roots (≈ ... The Biomass Distribution of the Biosphere by Kingdom.. In Fig. 1 and Table 1, we report our best estimates for the biomass of ...
Biomass Incentives for Business from agnetaborg545
... a biomass boiler can produce enough energy to provide central heating and hot water for your business, in place of ... Why should you use biomass for your business? ... Biomass benefits for Business * Installing biomass gives A ... Potential incentive by using Biomass Biomass Boilers System Performance. Boiler running hours are estimated at 1,500 hours per ... Why should you use biomass for your business? a biomass boiler can produce enough energy to provide central heating and hot ...
Biomass as renewable energy | The Star
But there is another dimension to the oil palm industrys energy potential - the use of biomass to generate electricity. ... Umakanthan, who has over 30 years experience in fossil fuel and biomass power plant design, says biomass as a renewable energy ... He says it is now an appropriate time to tap RE resources such as biomass, before fossil fuels such as oil and coal are ... According to Umakanthan, it will take 20 to 22 months at a cost of about RM70mil to build a 10MW biomass power plant. The ...
Biomass Analysis Technology Newsletter | Bioenergy | NREL
Biomass Analysis Technology Newsletter. The Biomass Analysis Technology Newsletter provides updates to NRELs biomass analysis ... The Biomass Analysis Technology (BAT) team has been working closely with government, industry, and academic stakeholders in the ... Our list of FAQs addresses the most common inquiries from the biofuels and biomass community. In this issue, we introduce the ... Meet Justin Sluiter (pictured left) at the E48 Bioenergy and Industrial Chemicals from Biomass D02 December 2018 meeting in ...
Biomass energy. (eBook, 2008) [WorldCat.org]
Biomass energy.. [Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division. Science Reference Services,;] ... Biomass energy.. Author:. Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division. Science Reference Services,. ... Biomass energy./Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division. Science Reference Services,;; [Washington, D.C ... http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014231> # Biomass energy. a schema:Intangible ;. schema:name "Biomass energy"@en ;. ...
Biomass links (Forest Research)
Biomass Heating Systems - Which?
Cons of biomass heating. Costs for installing a whole biomass system, a stove and a boiler could be more than £15,000. ... Biomass heating systems. We talk you through the different types of biomass heating systems, including the pros and cons of ... Pros of biomass heating. *As mentioned above, assuming you source your biomass materials sustainably, they are a low carbon ... Stoves can be connected to a regular boiler, such as a gas boiler, or a biomass boiler. Biomass boilers, like stoves, burn wood ...
Pyrolysis of Biomass | AIChE
This includes pyrolysis chemistry of individual biomass-derived polymers (e.g. cellulose), reaction-transport models of biomass ... 446d) Biomass Pyrolysis: Can a Single Severity Factor Describe the Effect of Pyrolysis Conditions on the Final Biochar Product? ... 446b) Global Kinetics of Species Formation during High Temperature Pyrolysis of Coal and Biomass in CO2 Environment ... 446c) Fast Pyrolysis Kinetic Study for Ten Ecuadorian Agricultural Residual Biomass Samples ...
Bioconversion of biomass to mixed alcohol fuels - Wikipedia
Through bioconversion of biomass to a mixed alcohol fuel, more energy from the biomass will end up as liquid fuels than in ... The bioconversion of biomass to mixed alcohol fuels can be accomplished using the MixAlco process. ... Advanced Biomass Refinery - Third-Generation 2007 (video) Archived 1 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine. ... As the microoganisms anaerobically digest the biomass and convert it into a mixture of carboxylic acids, the pH must be ...
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Forest Biomass16
- with forest biomass and wood wastes and the transportation of those items. (bartleby.com)
- Cellulose in forest biomass is mostly in a crystalline state and is exceedingly stable to chemical degradation. (aiche.org)
- The pan-tropical biomass map was integrated with the boreal forest biomass component (Santoro et al. (wur.nl)
- 2015) into the GEOCARBON global aboveground forest biomass map at 0.01° resolution. (wur.nl)
- The global forest biomass map can be downloaded here. (wur.nl)
- The boreal forest biomass map can be accessed at www.biomasar.org . (wur.nl)
- Forest biomass is the most frequently used source of energy, with slash continuing to show development potential. (hydroquebec.com)
- In Québec, forest biomass is the most frequently used organic matter due to its ready availability and the maturity of the generating method involved. (hydroquebec.com)
- Forest biomass is the most frequently used type, with only slash consistently showing significant potential for power generation. (hydroquebec.com)
- In a cogeneration (electricity and steam) plant fueled by forest biomass, 30% to 35% of the energy in the solid biomass can be converted into electricity, during the steam cycle. (hydroquebec.com)
- From 1999 to 2009, upfront costs in Québec were much lower and more stable for forest biomass than fuel oil. (hydroquebec.com)
- Congress has passed legislation to provide regulatory certainty regarding the carbon neutrality of forest-derived biomass, and in April 2018, EPA issued a policy to treat biogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from the combustion of forest biomass at stationary sources as carbon neutral. (awc.org)
- The mission will provide the first comprehensive measurements of global forest biomass. (wikipedia.org)
- The main objective of BIOMASS is to measure forest biomass in order to assess terrestrial carbon stocks and fluxes and better understand the planet's carbon cycle. (wikipedia.org)
- This will allow it to provide accurate maps of tropical, temperate and boreal forest biomass that are not obtainable by ground measurement techniques. (wikipedia.org)
- Researchers have disputed that the use of forest biomass for energy is carbon neutral. (wikipedia.org)
Types of biomass5
- Seaweed has a different biochemical composition than the common types of biomass in the country, which means that conventional fractionation and chemical conversion technologies are not easy to apply. (wur.nl)
- In Québec, there are three types of biomass with significant energy potential: forest, agrifood and urban biomass. (hydroquebec.com)
- All types of biomass can be effectively processed, conveyed, stored, and fed to power generation systems using ANDRITZ technologies. (andritz.com)
- The use of biomass is not 100% carbon neutral and the use of certain types of biomass might even lead to carbon emissions exacerbating climate change. (birdlife.org)
- Bioenergy is often presented to be carbon neutral, relying on the assumption that the carbon released when burning wood or other types of biomass is soon recaptured by trees, vegetation and soils. (birdlife.org)
BIOENERGY17
- The use of biomass has increased significantly in the last two decades making bioenergy the most widely used renewable energy source in Denmark. (ens.dk)
- Additional research effort is focused on Kazak dandelion as another natural source of rubber, inulin and biomass for bioenergy production. (usda.gov)
- Visit the North Carolina Biomass Trader http://www.ncbiomasstrader.com/home.aspx US Department of Energy's Bioenergy Technologies Office is working to replace the whole barrel of oil using biomass feedstocks. (bartleby.com)
- We believe this document will be crucial for an informed public debate on the sustainability of bioenergy, in particular as policy makers discuss the reform of the much-contested biofuel and biomass policies," he added. (reuters.com)
- In the Netherlands, IEA Bioenergy released its latest report, Biomass Pretreatment for Bioenergy which summarizes the efforts of an inter-task project designed to demonstrate how the application of certain biomass pre-treatment technologies could make existing bioenergy supply chains more fuel flexible, more efficient, and more cost-effective. (biofuelsdigest.com)
- In India, researchers from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, DBT-ICGEB Centre for Advanced Bioenergy Research discovered that a robust yeast strain can produce up to 15.5% more ethanol when glucose or lignocellulose biomass - rice and wheat straw - is fermented and has been isolated. (biofuelsdigest.com)
- In Colorado, SynTech Bioenergy, a company that transforms biomass, agricultural waste and municipal solid waste into renewable heat and electricity, congratulates customer Dixon Ridge Farms for its receipt of the Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) for converting its walnut shells to heat and power. (biofuelsdigest.com)
- Biomass & Bioenergy is an international journal publishing original research papers and short communications, review articles and case studies on biological resources , chemical and biological processes, and biomass products for new renewable sources of energy and materials . (elsevier.com)
- The scope of the journal extends to the environmental , management and economic aspects of biomass and bioenergy. (elsevier.com)
- Please note that research on these biomass subjects must be linked directly to bioenergy generation. (elsevier.com)
- BirdLife fully supports the need to move away from fossil sources, but there are significant risks associated with this increased use in bioenergy, which are currently neglected in the policies driving the use of biomass. (birdlife.org)
- A collaboration led by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) has developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from biomass. (eurekalert.org)
- The increasing global demand for energy requires a versatile approach, prompting many researchers to focus on renewable bioenergy from different biomasses, especially cellulosic biomass. (springer.com)
- Green Biomass Pretreatment for Biofuels Production reviews a range of pretreatment methods such as ammonium fiber explosion, steam explosion, dilute acid hydrolysis, alkali hydrolysis, and supercritical carbon dioxide explosion focusing on their final sugar yields from hemicellulose, glucose yields from cellulose, as well as on their feasibilities in bioenergy production processes at various scales. (springer.com)
- Graduate students in areas of energy systems, renewable energy, bioenergy, biomass and sustainable design. (elsevier.com)
- Managers, specialists and consultants in biomass, biorefinery and bioenergy sectors. (elsevier.com)
- The broad forest products industry is the largest producer and user of bioenergy (energy from biomass) of any industrial sector and has long-standing operations in the United States. (awc.org)
Solid biomass14
- In addition, short rotation coppice provides solid biomass, while agriculture also provides by-products and residues (such as straw) used for bioheat and biopower. (europa.eu)
- In the 1980's and 1990's the use of solid biomass was largely made up by straw, biodegradable waste and fuel wood, but after 2000 the use of wood pellets and wood chips have increased significantly. (ens.dk)
- The figure below illustrates the use of solid biomass in energy production in Denmark in 2015. (ens.dk)
- There are several types of solid biomass used in Denmark and most of the biomass is produced domestically. (ens.dk)
- of the total use of solid biomass. (ens.dk)
- Use of solid biomass in Danish energy system in 2015 with share of imports, pct. (ens.dk)
- Every year the Danish Energy Agency makes future projections on the use of solid biomass and other types of renewable energy in The Energy and Climate Outlook. (ens.dk)
- The figure below shows the historical and expected future use of solid biomass in electricity and heat in Denmark from 2005 to 2025. (ens.dk)
- Use of solid biomass in electricity and heat production 2005-2015, and projection to 2025 pct. (ens.dk)
- Solid Biomass is largely used in industrial applications for heat and electricity production, as well as in buildings for heat production. (sfu.ca)
- This database focuses largely on liquid biofuels, but also contains some data on wood pellets, a key form of solid biomass. (sfu.ca)
- Direct combustion of solid biomass fuel is well understood, relatively straightforward, commercially available, and can be regarded as a proven technology. (bartleby.com)
- The biomass pyrolysis is attractive because solid biomass and wastes which are very difficult and costly to manage. (fao.org)
- Current oil fired burners can not be fully directly with solid biomass without any modification of the unit, which may not be interested in uncertain fuel markets. (fao.org)
Biofuel10
- Simulation models are being used to predict biomass yields and greenhouse gas fluxes in various biofuel cropping systems in three states. (usda.gov)
- NB: Issues related to the production of biofuel for the transportation industry from agrifood and urban biomass are not discussed in this document. (hydroquebec.com)
- We offer single machines for production of biomass pellets, solid biofuel, and waste pellets. (andritz.com)
- ANDRITZ pellet mills produce more than 50% of all biofuel pellets produced worldwide and have held a market share of over 50% since the pioneering of biomass pelleting in the 1980s. (andritz.com)
- Biomass can either be used directly, or indirectly-once or converted into another type of energy product such as biofuel. (prezi.com)
- Biomass is also used for electricity generation and as a biofuel. (unendlich-viel-energie.de)
- Carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of biomass or biofuel are not included in the cap-and-trade program. (sightline.org)
- At minimum, however, it demands elaboration as the terms "biomass" and "biofuel" can refer to a vast and diverse array of products, some of which are climate killers and others of which may yet be climate saviors. (sightline.org)
- They thus meet the requirements for continuing to market biomass or its end products in the EU as biofuel. (tuev-nord.de)
- Since biomass technically can be used as a fuel directly (e.g. wood logs), some people use the terms biomass and biofuel interchangeably. (wikipedia.org)
Cellulosic biomass4
- Furthermore, dedicated energy crops like perennial grasses and short rotation forestry and coppice provide non-food cellulosic and ligno-cellulosic biomass. (europa.eu)
- Lynd LR, Cushman JH, Nichols RJ, Wyman CE (1991) Fuel ethanol from cellulosic biomass. (springer.com)
- One of the barriers to the production of ethanol from cellulosic biomass is the toughness of the cellulosic structure, and its resistance to chemical and enzymatic hydrolysis and insolubility in most solvents. (alternative-energy-news.info)
- After successfully diverting fatty acid metabolism toward the production of fuels and other chemicals from glucose, the JBEI researchers engineered their new strain of E. coli to produce hemicellulases - enzymes that are able to ferment hemicellulose, the complex sugars that are a major constituent of cellulosic biomass and a prime repository for the energy locked within plant cell walls. (eurekalert.org)
Conversion of biomass2
- SINTEF carries out basic and applied research within conversion of biomass to biocarbon (charcoal), and offers project based research and development for the industry within this subject. (sintef.no)
- Biomass fuel is liquid, solid, or gaseous fuel produced by conversion of biomass. (alternative-energy-news.info)
Combined heat4
- A biomass combined-heat-and-power (CHP) project in southwest England is beginning the final phase of commissioning and is on track to begin commercial operations in August. (biomassmagazine.com)
- Biomass is converted to clean, efficient 'biopower' through a variety of processes including direct combustion, co-firing, re-powering, combined heat and power (CHP), gasification and anaerobic digestion. (treehugger.com)
- This trend is likely to continue since several large scale combined heat and power plants have plans to convert from fossil fuels to woody biomass. (ens.dk)
- Mr. Cleaves said the efficiency standards proposed by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources would be extremely difficult to reach, and might be achieved by combined heat and power biomass plants, which use or sell heat generated by the boiler to heat buildings. (telegram.com)
Woody23
- Energy sources in rural areas can be supplemented by woody, non-woody agro -residue, and degradable aquatic biomass. (slideshare.net)
- Woody biomass is product of forestry and trees from different agroforestry activities of smaller intensity. (slideshare.net)
- That said, businesses, schools, even hospitals within the Commonwealth and surrounding states are utilizing woody biomass to both sustainably and affordably meet their heating needs. (mass.gov)
- The use of woody biomass is expected to increase by almost 50 pct. (ens.dk)
- Cellulosic ethanol can be derived from materials such as crop residues, woody biomass, and municipal waste. (sfu.ca)
- Woody biomass contains cellulose which is a highly stable polymer of gluco-pyranoses. (aiche.org)
- This session focuses on the recalcitrance of woody biomass, a key component of which is cellulose. (aiche.org)
- This month's theme, woody biomass, has caused quite a stir as more projects that intend to utilize the resource to produce power and heat emerge. (issuu.com)
- One of the main concerns people have about using woody biomass as a power source is that it will decimate our nation's forests. (issuu.com)
- I understand why this is a concern, but I maintain that the use of woody biomass can be sustained by concentrating on the planting of fast-growing tree species on marginal land, replanting tree stands as they are harvested, which is already being done, and focusing on wood residue that isn't used by the wood products industry, such as insect and diseasedamaged trees and forest residue that's removed to prevent fires. (issuu.com)
- I recently read about a great example of how a group of forest managers, the forest products industry, environmentalists, economic developers and other interested parties in Arizona have worked together to sustainably use woody biomass from national forestlands. (issuu.com)
- The White Mountain Stewardship Project, which involves the Apache and Sitgreaves National Forests in East-Central Arizona, was created to provide a long-term, reliable supply of woody biomass for the wood products industry, reduce the risk of wildfires and stimulate the local economy, according to the article. (issuu.com)
- Lisa Gibson's "Pacific West Profile" feature details the myriad of biomass resources in the Pacific West that have yet to be fully tapped, including woody biomass, crop residue, animal waste, municipal solid waste, and food and beverage plant waste. (issuu.com)
- Our research focuses on improving the spatial assessment of aboveground biomass of woody vegetation by combining field observations, remote sensing and auxiliary data, from local case studies to global scale, with focus on the tropical region. (wur.nl)
- 2012) with local high-quality biomass data into an improved pan-tropical aboveground biomass map of woody vegetation at 1 km resolution for the 2000's. (wur.nl)
- The improved pan-tropical map of aboveground woody biomass at 1 km. (wur.nl)
- U.S. states in the region are seeing a boom in the use of woody biomass to produce electricity. (upi.com)
- Woody Biomass in Indiana takes place Sept. 26-27 at Clifty Falls State Park in Madison. (purdue.edu)
- This conference will address the potential of both native- and plantation-grown woody biomass in the central Midwest as a source of renewable energy," said Dan Cassens, a professor of wood products in Purdue's Department of Forestry and Natural Resources and a conference organizer. (purdue.edu)
- An "Impact of Woody Biomass Harvesting on Wildlife Management" track will address ecological sustainability biomass harvesting, coarse woody debris in managed and unmanaged forests, public perceptions of woody biomass harvesting and the Southeast-Purdue biomass harvesting project. (purdue.edu)
- The Sept. 27 program runs from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and covers such topics as "Why Use Woody Biomass and Developments in the Central States," "Economics and Policy Issues Related to Cellulosic Biofuels," "Technology for Harvesting and Processing Woody Biomass," "Urban Trees for Mulch and Energy," "Biodiversity Impacts of Biomass Harvesting" and "Poplar Plantations as Woody Biomass - Indiana Experience. (purdue.edu)
- This primer discusses two approaches for estimating the biomass density of woody formations based on existing forest inventory data. (fao.org)
- A non-woody biomass is delignified through extrusion technology, utilizing hydrogen peroxide and an alkali agent, to break down complex biomass materials. (freepatentsonline.com)
Total biomass3
- From that, we can estimate the total biomass in the sample of Martian soil. (redorbit.com)
- Recently I came across a factoid which informed us that the total biomass (weight) of ants is greater than the biomass of all human beings. (google.com)
- While total biomass estimates tend to converge (Mitchard et al. (wur.nl)
Feedstocks8
- The majority of biomass produced by EU agriculture comes in the form of biogas, and feedstocks for making biodiesel and bioethanol. (europa.eu)
- ARS Scientists are working with a commercial landfill that utilizes a variety of biomass feedstocks to produce ethanol, compost material and/or biogas. (usda.gov)
- MILFORD, Ohio , Aug. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AdvanceBio Systems, LLC today announced that CTBE, the Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory in Campinas, SP, selected AdvanceBio Systems' SuPR 2 G Laboratory Scale Pretreatment Reactor to conduct basic research and development work related to the production of fermentable sugars, biofuels and chemicals from lignocellulose rich biomass feedstocks. (prnewswire.com)
- The equipment will be used for research, development and demonstration of technology related to the production of biomass-based fuels and chemicals from lignocellulosic feedstocks in our Pilot Plant for Process Development (PPDP),' said Carlos Eduardo Vaz Rossell , industrial program director - CTBE. (prnewswire.com)
- Fuel characterization is the primary and a critical step in the evaluation of biomass and waste feedstocks' suitability for a thermal conversion process. (sintef.no)
- Detailed and accurate characterization is especially important for proper utilization of inhomogeneous and low quality biomass and waste feedstocks, to prevent operational related problems, optimize conversion processes and design conversion systems. (sintef.no)
- [7] Other biomass feedstocks are enzymes or bacteria from various sources, grown in cell cultures or hydroponics . (wikipedia.org)
- A more scalable, controllable, and economic alternative route to these fuels and chemicals would be through the microbial conversion of renewable feedstocks, such as biomass-derived carbohydrates. (eurekalert.org)
Connected biomass power4
- I am Uma Rama Linga Murthy Marthi, Asst Manager Renewable Energy Division, Zenith Energy Services Pvt Ltd. I welcome you on behalf of Zenith team to the presentation on Evaluation study of programmes on grid connected biomass power, bagasse cogeneration, non-bagasse cogeneration in Industries initiated by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and awarded to Zenith Energy Services Pvt Ltd. (slideshare.net)
- The broad road map to the presentation consists of introduction and importance of the ongoing study, introduction and present scenario of existing Central Schemes or CFA Programmes, Grid connected biomass power generation, bagasse cogeneration and non-bagasse cogeneration, their sector wise growth, evaluation of the existing power plants, the barriers and constraints the existing plants are facing, recommendations to overcome the identified barriers and constraints. (slideshare.net)
- Honorable Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has been implementing programs for grid connected biomass power, bagasse cogeneration and non-bagasse cogeneration since past two decades. (slideshare.net)
- New targets were set for the implementation of grid-connected biomass power and bagasse cogeneration in the 11 th Five Year Plan and the set targets were over achieved by over 100% in biomass power generation and by over 50% in bagasse cogeneration based power projects. (slideshare.net)
Sustainable10
- Biomass from forests should comply with the principles of sustainable forest management (SFM) that are aimed at safeguarding not only economic but also ecological and social functions of forests and apply to all forest management activities. (europa.eu)
- Wageningen Food & Biobased Research focuses on the sustainable production and valorisation of aquatic biomass in close cooperation with Wageningen Plant Research. (wur.nl)
- Findings include a better understanding the institutional partnerships and decision support needs of local communities as they pursue wood biomass energy options that are sustainable, efficient, local and equitable. (uvm.edu)
- Pyrolysis is an environmental sustainable to deal with the ever increasing amount of biomass waste. (edu.au)
- Offering a unique perspective summarizing research on this timely important topic around the globe, this book provides comprehensive coverage of how molecular biomass can be transformed into sustainable polymers. (wiley-vch.de)
- It is also crucial to use sustainable biomass efficiently through "cascading use", i.e. when biomass is used for material products first and the energy content is recovered from the end-of-life products. (birdlife.org)
- At each stage of the cascading sustainable biomass should be dedicated in priority to sectors where there is no other sustainable alternative to achieve emissions reduction. (birdlife.org)
- This week's shipment marks the first of many to a global economic powerhouse where demand for a long-term supply of sustainable biomass continues to grow as the economy moves away from fossil fuels. (yahoo.com)
- With the right policies and investment in research , developing nations can turn their dependence on biomass fuels into a renewable and sustainable energy supply, says Duncan Macqueen . (scidev.net)
- Wood products manufacturers use biomass from manufacturing and sustainable forestry operations to produce energy, providing significant carbon-reducing benefits to the environment. (awc.org)
Residues6
- Various biomass sources could be used, including wood and wood residues, municipal solid waste, and animal waste. (sfu.ca)
- Thus agricultural residue biomass energy available for climate change mitigation by reducing the amount of greenhouse gases emission from using fossil fuels and the pollutions resulting from the high accumulation of these agricultural residues as wastes. (bartleby.com)
- It would force a 50 percent cut in planet-warming gases from biomass plants by 2030 compared to fossil fuels, and limit the sorts of 'residues' and waste wood that can be burned 'to discourage the poor forest management practice. (reuters.com)
- Research on land-based biomass mainly focus on the use of residues from agriculture and forestry as raw materials for production of bio-based chemicals, materials and energy. (sintef.no)
- Papers on the use of biomass residues through innovative processes/technological novelty and/or consideration of feedstock/system sustainability (or unsustainability) are welcomed. (elsevier.com)
- Wood and wood residues is the largest biomass energy source today. (wikipedia.org)
Pretreatment5
- Aqueous pretreatment of plant biomass for biological and chemical conversion to fuels and chemicals. (springer.com)
- The majority of the pretreatment and biomass deconstruction equipment is located in the NREL Integrated Biorefinery Research Facility (IBRF). (nrel.gov)
- Years of research by groups developing next-generation cellulose hydrolyzing enzymes, xylose fermenting organisms and biomass crops have reinforced that pretreatment is a core process. (prnewswire.com)
- The AdvanceBio Systems' business model, based upon decades of experience in the renewable fuels industry, resulted in the development of equipment designs and fabrication techniques focused on supplying scalable yet cost-effective biomass pretreatment reactor equipment. (prnewswire.com)
- Because of the varieties of different biomasses, no single pretreatment is expected to be the universal choice. (springer.com)
Fuels and chemicals3
- Biomass is the only renewable carbon source and can therefore be used for production of renewable fuels and chemicals. (sintef.no)
- From biomass to energy, fuels and chemicals. (sintef.no)
- The paper is titled, "Microbial Production of Fatty Acid-Derived Fuels and Chemicals from Plant Biomass. (eurekalert.org)
Produce biomass3
- Click on a cell to infect same color cells touching red areas and to produce biomass. (surfnetkids.com)
- Following field harvesting trials in 2015 and 2016, we developed production and costing tools to determine the cost and productivity for available production systems which might produce biomass chips at a cost that could be supported by biomass value for energy. (usda.gov)
- If uncontrolled, the expansion and intensification of forest management and logging activities to produce biomass can lead to further degradation of forest ecosystems. (birdlife.org)
Aboveground biomass3
- Aboveground biomass plays a key role in the carbon cycle and climate processes and in the last few years there has been a large effort to improve its spatial assessment, particularly in the tropical region where uncertainties are higher (Avitabile et al. (wur.nl)
- 2018). A detailed portrait of the forest aboveground biomass pool for the year 2010 obtained from multiple remote sensing observations. (google.com)
- The actual diameter distribution of these large trees significantly affects aboveground biomass density. (fao.org)
Gasification and pyrolysis3
- The biomass gasification and pyrolysis market in North America is expected to experience high growth during the next few years as a consequence of increasing government concerns about energy security and independence. (prnewswire.com)
- This segment provides a broad level assessment of the total North American biomass gasification and pyrolysis market. (prnewswire.com)
- The fundamental aspects of combustion, gasification and pyrolysis of biomass, waste and other fuels are studied in our well-equipped laboratory. (utwente.nl)
Electricity16
- But there is another dimension to the oil palm industry's energy potential - the use of biomass to generate electricity. (thestar.com.my)
- The Danish Energy Association and the Danish District Heating Association have developed biomass sustainability criteria in a voluntary industry agreement which covers wood pellets and wood chips used for heat and electricity. (ens.dk)
- Direct combustion is the most common way of converting biomass to energy - both heat and electricity- and worldwide it already provides over 90% of the energy generated from biomass. (bartleby.com)
- 4.3 Biomass Energy Conversion Technologies Biomass materials can be converted to various useful forms of energy such as heat, electricity and liquid fuels. (bartleby.com)
- The technologies used to convert biomass into energy ranged widely from the simple combustion of biomass used for cooking and heating in developing countries to a variety of technologies to generate modern energy carriers - electricity, gas, and liquid bio-fuels. (bartleby.com)
- Biomass electricity burns wood chips and forest debris to generate power. (reuters.com)
- Biomass power is the energy derived from animal or vegetable matter, which can be harnessed to generate electricity. (hydroquebec.com)
- While most biomass energy is used to produce heat, it also generates 158 TWh /year of electricity. (hydroquebec.com)
- Canada is the world's seventh-largest producer of primary energy and electricity from biomass. (hydroquebec.com)
- The reason: since biomass has a lower energy density than fossil fuels, a larger quantity of biomass and consequently greater infrastructure are needed to produce the same amount of electricity. (hydroquebec.com)
- Sugars present in this biomass are fermented to produce bioethanol , an alcohol fuel which serve as an additive to gasoline, or in a fuel cell to produce electricity. (wikipedia.org)
- Fuels derived from biomass - mainly wood, but also plant and animal matter - produce lower greenhouse gas emissions than fossil fuels, and can be converted into heat, electricity, liquid or gas. (scidev.net)
- 70% of all biomass in the world is used in the residential sector, while 14% is used in industry and 11% is transformed into electricity, heat, or other energy carriers such as liquid fuels or biogases. (prezi.com)
- Biomass used as a fuel reduces the use of fossil fuels for the production of heat, steam, and electricity for residential, industrial, and agricultural use. (prezi.com)
- Heat, electricity and fuels can be produced from solid, liquid and gaseous biomass. (unendlich-viel-energie.de)
- Biomass is plant or animal material used as fuel to produce electricity or heat. (wikipedia.org)
Boiler7
- a biomass boiler can produce enough energy to provide central heating and hot water for your business, in place of a gas or other boiler, and with the RHI in place the more you burn the more you earn, so no need to cut back on your heating and hot water anymore. (funnyordie.com)
- Biomass heating systems, also called wood heating systems, burn organic materials - typically wood logs, pellets or chips - in a wood-burning stove or boiler to provide heat and hot water. (which.co.uk)
- Stoves can be connected to a regular boiler, such as a gas boiler, or a biomass boiler. (which.co.uk)
- You can also get a 'wet' stove, where an integral biomass boiler is built into the firebox. (which.co.uk)
- The main technologies used in the university are gas fired engines, whereas the Hillcrest building which has a biomass boiler. (bartleby.com)
- The company offers a comprehensive scope of process machinery from biomass receiving to boiler silo feeding. (andritz.com)
- misc{etde_570549, title = {Boiler conversions for biomass} author = {Kinni, J} abstractNote = {Boiler conversions from grate- and oil-fired boilers to bubbling fluidized bed combustion have been most common in pulp and paper industry. (osti.gov)
Renewable source1
- Coupled with low energy costs and excellent financial returns from the commercial RHI, Biomass is a leading renewable source of heat. (funnyordie.com)
Search1
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: In search of ant ancestors http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/97/26/14028 'According to H lldobler and Wilson (1990), up to 1/3 (33%) of the terrestrial animal biomass (NOTE: not including aquatic animal, or terrestrial and aquatic flowering plants and microorganisms) was made up of ants and termites. (google.com)
Cellulose7
- Also known as lignocellulosic biomass, the structural part of plants that is not edible by humans and contains cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin, and lignin. (springer.com)
- This includes pyrolysis chemistry of individual biomass-derived polymers (e.g. cellulose), reaction-transport models of biomass particles, and reactor design for pyrolysis of biomass. (aiche.org)
- The more popular methods for production of ethanol and cellulosic ethanol use enzymes that must be isolated first to be added to the biomass and thus convert the starch or cellulose into simple sugars, followed then by yeast fermentation into ethanol. (wikipedia.org)
- Up to now, however, methods to make these advanced biofuels have often involved biological processes in which microbes break down sugars derived from biomass, including cellulose. (technologyreview.com)
- To convert cellulose, a large component of biomass, into fuel, researchers first need to break it down into simpler components, such as simple sugars. (technologyreview.com)
- Baldwin says that although the process produces high yields of the desired fuels, it requires a large number of processing steps, including separating cellulose from other components of biomass, which could make it expensive. (technologyreview.com)
- Los Alamos researchers have published two papers separately in Biophysical Journal and recently in an issue of Biomacromolecules, These scientists have recognized the potential weaknesses among sheets of cellulose molecules comprising lignocellulosic biomass. (alternative-energy-news.info)
Convert8
- After chemical and/or mechanical deconstruction, an enzymatic hydrolysis is performed to convert biomass polysaccharides into their monomeric sub-units for biological fermentation and/or catalytic upgrading. (nrel.gov)
- As the microoganisms anaerobically digest the biomass and convert it into a mixture of carboxylic acids, the pH must be controlled. (wikipedia.org)
- Above-and-below-ground biomass were then summed together and multiplied by 0.5 to convert to carbon, generating a single above-and-below-ground biomass carbon layer. (google.com)
- A range of chemical processes may be used to convert biomass into other forms, such as to produce a fuel that is more practical to store, transport and use, or to exploit some property of the process itself. (wikipedia.org)
- It will also need to compete with other thermochemical processes that can be adapted to work with biomass, such as those that have been used to convert coal into liquid fuels. (technologyreview.com)
- Thermal conversion processes use heat as the dominant mechanism to convert biomass into another chemical form. (prezi.com)
- Four Colorado projects that convert wood waste, or biomass, into energy received a total of $1 million in federal stimulus funds Thursday, but a state with more than two million acres of dead and dying lodgepole pine forests could use a lot more. (coloradoindependent.com)
- These mills convert biomass residuals to energy while manufacturing carbon-sequestering biobased products that are useful to society. (awc.org)
Coal10
- Biomass is another earth-friendly source of energy that could help replace environmentally harmful fossil fuels like oil and coal. (treehugger.com)
- Co-firing mixes biomass with coal at coal-fired power plants, which may offer a transitional means of somewhat cleaner energy until infrastructure for truly renewable energy is in place. (treehugger.com)
- Re-powering' is when coal plants are converted to run entirely on biomass. (treehugger.com)
- The cost of building a biomass power plant is also less than a coal, oil or gas-fired power plant," he notes. (thestar.com.my)
- He says it is now an appropriate time to tap RE resources such as biomass, before fossil fuels such as oil and coal are depleted or get too costly. (thestar.com.my)
- Waste combustion in grate furnaces, biomass co-firing in coal fired power plants and combustion of bio-oil in gas turbines and engines. (utwente.nl)
- A study by the Mass.-based Manomet Center for Conservation Studies, commissioned by Gov. Deval Patrick and released in June, found that certain biomass technologies produce more climate-changing emissions than coal plants for up to 40 years. (reuters.com)
- Cofiring with biomass has increased in coal power plants, because it makes it possible to release less CO2 without the cost assosicated with building new infrastructure. (wikipedia.org)
- The key to Metso's self-proclaimed environmental credentials is its production of biomass boilers to replace those powered by coal and other fossil fuels. (triplepundit.com)
- The replacement of coal by biomass results in a large reduction of carbon dioxide that contributes to the greenhouse affect. (prezi.com)
Crops7
- Biomass grasses, short rotation forestry and short rotation coppice have high energy yields - about three times those of traditional energy crops. (europa.eu)
- Biomass can either be a waste product or grown specifically for energy in the form of crops like hemp, corn, poplar, willow, sorghum, switchgrass and sugarcane. (treehugger.com)
- Energy crops should never compete with food crops for land, and emissions of biomass carbon should be taken up or recycled by subsequent plant growth. (treehugger.com)
- Growing beneficial biomass crops can maintain or even increase the stocks of carbon stored in soil or plants. (treehugger.com)
- Burning plant-derived biomass releases CO2, but it has still been classified as a renewable energy source in the EU and UN legal frameworks because photosynthesis cycles the CO2 back into new crops. (wikipedia.org)
- Second-generation biofuels utilize non-food-based biomass sources such as perennial energy crops (low input crops), and agricultural/municipal waste. (wikipedia.org)
- Energy Crops Brazil (ECB) is a Brazilian agribusiness & renewables company that develops Biomass for Energy projects focused on Giant Carajas Grass, a high yield biomass variety of Elephant Grass. (pr.com)
20182
- 2018. An above-ground biomass map of African savannahs and woodlands at 25 m resolution derived from ALOS PALSAR. (google.com)
- In response to new scientific research showing the adverse consequences of biomass energy, in 2018 the UK government introduced new rules that would effectively stop subsidies for new wood-burning power stations. (nrdc.org)
Sustainably3
- Biomass can still play a role in the mix of renewable energies in Europe, but the supply of biomass for energy production needs to be constrained to what can be sustainably supplied from the forests. (birdlife.org)
- Companies are therefore called upon to cultivate and process biomass sustainably for the energy sector. (tuev-nord.de)
- The greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits of biomass harvested from sustainably managed forests has been recognized repeatedly by an abundance of studies, agencies, institutions, legislation and rules around the world, including guidance from the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the reporting protocols of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. (awc.org)
Plant32
- Biomass is organic matter, including plant material that may be considered fuel and used as an energy source. (mass.gov)
- Power plant expert M. Umakanthan says the biomass from Malaysia's oil palm plantations alone can power 5% to 10% of the country's total energy requirements. (thestar.com.my)
- Umakanthan, who has over 30 years' experience in fossil fuel and biomass power plant design, says biomass as a renewable energy (RE) resource can help big oil palm growers substantially reduce their energy bills. (thestar.com.my)
- According to Umakanthan, it will take 20 to 22 months at a cost of about RM70mil to build a 10MW biomass power plant. (thestar.com.my)
- He is now a senior general manager of Garisan Etika Sdn Bhd and is involved in the construction of a 50MW diesel generator and gas turbine power plant project in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a biomass power plant in Johor under IPP arrangements. (thestar.com.my)
- He adds that 600 to 650 tonnes of EFB from four to five mills is needed daily to run 10MW biomass power plant. (thestar.com.my)
- Guayule, a natural rubber latex producing plant native to the southwestern U.S., is being developed as an alternative to petroleum as a source of latex and rubber and for biomass for energy production. (usda.gov)
- In Switzerland, Royal DSM, reduced its CO2 emissions at its vitamin production facility in Sisseln, by 50,000 tons/year through a new biomass heat and power plant on the site. (biofuelsdigest.com)
- The plant will use mustard stalk and other agro biomass as fuel for power generation, and adequate arrangement for fuel supply on everyday basis has been made by the government. (hindustantimes.com)
- BPA says a typical biomass plant in Massachusetts could lose a quarter to a third of its cash flow. (reuters.com)
- After the Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.'s linerboard plant in Missoula announced that it was closing permanently, there have been many people including Montana Governor Switzer, Missoula mayor John Engen and Senator Jon Tester, among others who advocate turning the mill into a biomass energy plant. (newwest.net)
- Whether you wish to expand or build a biomass pelleting plant, ANDRITZ can design, manufacture, supply, and optimize the machinery for producing high-quality biomass pellets. (andritz.com)
- Biomass is plant or animal material used for energy production, heat production, or in various industrial processes as raw material for a range of products. (wikipedia.org)
- Biomass plant in Scotland. (wikipedia.org)
- Wood waste outside biomass power plant. (wikipedia.org)
- Biomass also includes plant or animal matter that can be converted into fuel, fibers or industrial chemicals . (wikipedia.org)
- In reality it takes time (from years to decades, depending on the kind of biomass) for the carbon released to be recaptured again by plant and tree growth and by the soil. (birdlife.org)
- Converting plant biomass into high-value chemicals with the help of improved microorganisms. (europabio.org)
- Scientific studies have consistently shown that liquid fuels derived from plant biomass are one of the best alternatives if a cost-effective means of commercial production can be found. (eurekalert.org)
- Purdue University researchers have found a genetic mutation that allows a plant to better endure drought without losing biomass, a discovery that could reduce the amount of water required for growing plants and help plants survive and thrive in adverse conditions. (purdue.edu)
- The plant had the same biomass as a wild type of Arabidopsis when its shoot dry weight was measured. (purdue.edu)
- The key to making biomass neutral on the carbon issue is to deplete fuels stocks (trees, switch grass, corn, whatever) at the same rate as you plant more. (triplepundit.com)
- Mr. Cleaves said that because renewable energy is generally more expensive than fossil fuels, the added financial incentive of Renewable Energy Credits can help make a biomass plant economically feasible. (telegram.com)
- The state's only free-standing commercial biomass plant, Pine Tree Power in Westminster, burns chipped tree tops and branches left over from tree cutting, as well as methane piped in from a nearby landfill and paper-derived fuel cubes made from waste paper at a Westfield plant, selling power to Unitil under a 20-year contract signed in 1992. (telegram.com)
- Another provision of the new regulations would prevent more than 15 percent of the volume from a forest cutting to be used as biomass fuel, to ensure that enough plant material remains to restore nutrients to the soil. (telegram.com)
- A group of researchers at Iowa State University (ISU) and the U.S Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory hope to develop the pieces of that puzzle to create a clearer picture of what takes place within a plant and how that applies to its downstream uses as biomass . (renewableenergyworld.com)
- Then it's brought to factories or a biomass plant and all of the scraps and wood are dumped into a big hopper, which transfers all of it into a furnace where it is burned. (prezi.com)
- Biomass generates about the same amount of carbon dioxide as fossil fuels, but every time a new plant grows, almost the same amount of carbon dioxide released is removed from the atmosphere. (prezi.com)
- Even though burning biomass releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, this carbon dioxide was captured when the plant was growing. (reference.com)
- Plant biomass is an abundant renewable resource on Earth. (nature.com)
- In this Review, we summarize the mechanisms by which they decompose non-starch plant biomass and the six major types of synthetic plastics. (nature.com)
- This peek into the toughness of plant material could lead to a cost-effective and energy-efficient strategy for turning biomass into alternative fuels. (alternative-energy-news.info)
BIOGAS2
- Under the Eighth Malaysian Plan, the Government had promoted the generation of RE from biomass, biogas, municipal solid waste, mini-hydro and solar. (thestar.com.my)
- Pyrolysis minimizes the weight and volume of biomass waste while producing value-added products such as biogas, bio-oil and biochar. (edu.au)
Majority of the biomass2
- Since protein constitutes the majority of the biomass of a cell, building new protein is a major way that cells increase their size. (wiktionary.org)
- Krishnakumar said a majority of the biomass power plants were operating in huge losses, with some of them becoming non-performing assets on banks' books. (sify.com)
Sustainability5
- Discussions on the timing of GHG savings as well as other environmental risks from the use of biomass for energy have enhanced the awareness of the range of issues related to sustainability. (ens.dk)
- This topic is being analyzed in the context of the ongoing Commission analysis on biomass sustainability, to be finalized in the first half of this year," she added. (reuters.com)
- Environmentalists have been urging the European Union for some time to agree sustainability criteria to ensure only the right kind of biomass is used in energy generation. (reuters.com)
- We advocate for a mandatory sustainability scheme to be developed to regulate the production and use of biomass for energy. (birdlife.org)
- A sustainability scheme should prevent extraction of energy biomass from valuable ecosystems, such as pristine forests, lands with high carbon stocks and high-biodiversity value, wetlands and peat lands. (birdlife.org)
Forests8
- They say encouraging biomass production creates incentives to cut down carbon-absorbing forests to make fuel, driving deforestation and worsening warming. (reuters.com)
- A new campaign that NRDC is helping lead, Cut Carbon Not Forests , is aimed at directing public pressure on Parliamentarians to end financial subsidies to Drax Power and others for dirty biomass energy. (nrdc.org)
- A full 97% of respondents opposed government support for biomass energy that relied on wood shipped in from overseas forests, which is just what the UK is doing. (nrdc.org)
- Despite the above problems, many inventories are very useful for estimating biomass density of forests. (fao.org)
- Biomass producers have to use renewable resources, such as plantation forests, as the fuel stock for the boilers. (triplepundit.com)
- Told of the concern by some at the DOER hearing that the arrival of 50-megawatt biomass plants would consume the state's forests, Mr. Bourque shook his head. (telegram.com)
- As forests grow, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is removed from the atmosphere via photosynthesis and converted into organic carbon that is absorbed by trees that store it as wood (biomass). (awc.org)
- The BIOMASS mission is planned to continue its observation of Earth for five years after launch, during which it will provide detailed information about at least eight growth cycles in the world's forests. (wikipedia.org)
Carbon-neutral4
- So far, biomass has been assumed to be carbon-neutral on the grounds that any emissions generated when it is burnt for heat or power are offset instantly by the regrowth of more biomass. (reuters.com)
- Biomass should be considered carbon neutral. (telegram.com)
- Because of this, biomass is regarded as a carbon-neutral technique for generating energy. (reference.com)
- In fact, on average, over 75 percent of the energy from AWC member facilities is generated from carbon-neutral biomass. (awc.org)
Lignocellulosic1
- Ethanol made from lignocellulosic biomass by biological, chemical, or chemo-biological processes. (springer.com)
Emissions8
- The Union of Concerned Scientists explains that biomass produced for energy can potentially be harvested at unsustainable rates, cause damage to ecosystems, produce harmful air pollution, consume large amounts of water and produce net greenhouse gas emissions. (treehugger.com)
- Most scientists believe that there are a wide range of beneficial biomass resources that will reduce overall carbon emissions. (treehugger.com)
- The generally higher carbon monoxide levels as compared to March are both the result of South American fire emissions and the transport of carbon monoxide across the Atlantic Ocean from widespread biomass burning over Southern Africa. (nasa.gov)
- Biomass is a renewable energy source that can contribute to the mitigation of GHG emissions to the atmosphere. (ens.dk)
- LONDON (Reuters) - Environmental campaigners ClientEarth and BirdLife International are taking legal action against the European Commission over its failure to publish a review of greenhouse gas emissions from biomass. (reuters.com)
- The groups have filed an application to the General Court in Luxembourg for the Commission to give access to the study, which could confirm doubts that biomass used for heat and power is free of emissions, ClientEarth told Reuters on Thursday. (reuters.com)
- CONTRIBUTIONS 46 EMISSIONS GHG Emissions Trigger New Air Quality Permitting Requirements Keeping up with the U.S. EPA's air quality permitting rules is imperative for existing and proposed biomass combustion facilities. (issuu.com)
- Unfortunately, under the current proposal WCI will only count-and price-the emissions from fossil fuels and not the emissions from biomass, even though the carbon each releases has exactly the same effect on the atmosphere . (sightline.org)
Terrestrial8
- B ) Fraction of the biomass of each kingdom concentrated in the terrestrial, marine, or deep subsurface environment. (pnas.org)
- C ) Distribution of biomass between producers (autotrophs, mostly photosynthetic) and consumers (heterotrophs without deep subsurface) in the terrestrial and marine environments. (pnas.org)
- We show that terrestrial biomass is about two orders of magnitude higher than marine biomass and estimate a total of ≈6 Gt C of marine biota, doubling the previous estimated quantity. (pnas.org)
- The process uses a mixed culture of naturally occurring microorganisms found in natural habitats such as the rumen of cattle, termite guts, and marine and terrestrial swamps to anaerobically digest biomass into a mixture of carboxylic acids produced during the acidogenic and acetogenic stages of anaerobic digestion , however with the inhibition of the methanogenic final stage. (wikipedia.org)
- On average, ants monopolize 15-20% of the terrestrial animal biomass, and in tropical regions where ants are especially abundant, they monopolize 25% or more. (google.com)
- In the Brazilian rain forest the biomass of ants exceeds that of terrestrial vertebrates by four times! (google.com)
- Thus a figure for ants of 15% of all terrestrial animal biomass is not out of line. (google.com)
- Input carbon datasets were identified through a literature review of existing datasets on biomass carbon in terrestrial ecosystems published in peer-reviewed literature. (google.com)
Wastes1
- Such biomasses can be agricultural wastes, municipal wastes or direct harvests from high-yield energy corps. (springer.com)
20173
- The dataset was constructed by combining the most reliable publicly available datasets and overlaying them with the ESA CCI landcover map for the year 2010 (ESA, 2017), assigning to each grid cell the corresponding above-ground biomass value from the biomass map that was most appropriate for the grid cell's landcover type. (google.com)
- 2017) New global biomass map for the year 2010. (google.com)
- 2017. Biomass chipping for eastern redcedar. (usda.gov)
Chemicals4
- In the UK, Teesside business which has developed a new way to generate fuel and chemicals from waste biomass has secured a further GBP2.3 million investment to commercialize its technology. (biofuelsdigest.com)
- Many chemicals used by the chemical industry can be derived from biomass, potentially reducing the industry's reliance on petroleum. (sciencemag.org)
- [13] Biomass can be converted into multiple commodity chemicals. (wikipedia.org)
- Biomass is also used to produce fibers and industrial chemicals. (wikipedia.org)
Organic8
- Biomass is derived from organic material such as trees, plants, and agricultural and urban waste. (europa.eu)
- In short, biomass is organic material made by living organisms that contains stored energy from the sun. (treehugger.com)
- Biomass is any organic matter that is available on a renewable or recurring basis. (thestar.com.my)
- The sources of renewable energy that have reached full commercial maturity are: solar, wind, tides and waves, rivers, geothermal energy, organic waste and energy stored biomass (Okure et al, 2006). (bartleby.com)
- Biomass helps reduce the levels of methane (released during the decomposition of organic matter) in the air. (prezi.com)
- Biomass is this cheap because it is made from organic and agricultural material and waste. (prezi.com)
- Biomass fermentation involves breaking down glucose inside organic material to produce ethanol. (reference.com)
- Biomass is an energy source that is derived from crop waste and wood, but it is also derived from garbage, manure, sewage sludge and other organic waste th. (reference.com)
20192
- [4] Even in 2019, biomass is the only source of fuel for domestic use in many developing countries. (wikipedia.org)
- According to Drax , in 2019 its facility emitted 12.8 million tonnes of CO2 solely from the combustion of biomass. (nrdc.org)
Greenhouse4
- Finally, anaerobic digestion utilizes microorganisms to break down biomass in a controlled environment to produce the greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide. (treehugger.com)
- Due to foreign initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emission, the demand for US export of biomass to Europe and Asia has continued to rise exponentially. (prweb.com)
- Below-ground biomass were added using root-to-shoot ratios from the 2006 IPCC guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (IPCC, 2006). (google.com)
- The utilization of renewable raw materials (wood, agro and industrial waste and marine biomass) minimizes the emission of greenhouse gases. (sintef.no)
Type of biomass2
- Aquatic biomass is in the spotlight as the cultivation of this type of biomass does not require agricultural land. (wur.nl)
- The methods used to produce energy with biomass vary depending on the type of biomass and its intended use. (hydroquebec.com)
Future of biomass2
- With our professional accredited installation teams we are leading the way in the future of biomass. (funnyordie.com)
- In a move that could have wide ramifications for the future of biomass power nationwide, Massachusetts regulators have proposed to strictly regulate the ability of wood-burning incinerators to earn renewable power certificates. (reuters.com)
Amount of biomass1
- The amount of biomass and forest height will be measured at a resolution of 200 m, and forest disturbances such as clear-cutting at a resolution of 50 m. (wikipedia.org)
Demand for Biomass1
- Aquatic biomass, such as microalgae, seaweeds and aquatic plants, has considerable potential to meet part of the rising demand for biomass. (wur.nl)
Comes from biomass2
- In Canada, only about 4.4% of the primary energy consumed comes from biomass. (hydroquebec.com)
- Currently, some 40 percent of the renewable electrical power sold to Massachusetts comes from biomass plants, said Robert Cleaves, president of the New England Biomass Association, based in Portland, Maine. (telegram.com)
Energy from biomass1
- The chemical energy from biomass is released as heat when burned. (treehugger.com)
Benefits of biomass1
- around the accounting of carbon benefits of biomass. (reuters.com)
Quantity of biomass1
- The size of the bars corresponds to the quantity of biomass of each trophic mode. (pnas.org)
Estimate the biomass2
- For fungi and protists, we did not estimate the biomass present in the deep subsurface due to data scarcity. (pnas.org)
- In a presentation at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam on Friday 24th August, Dr Houtkooper will describe how he has used data from the Gas Exchange (GEx) experiment, carried by NASA's Viking landers, to estimate the biomass in the Martian soil. (redorbit.com)
Biofuels and biomass2
Components of biomass1
- What components of biomass smoke are detrimental? (cdc.gov)
Solutions for biomass1
- ANDRITZ offers complete solutions for biomass handling and processing. (andritz.com)
Collection of biomass2
- For longer distance collection of biomass, this difference may be a decisive factor. (fao.org)
- The certifications are addressed to all economic participants who are considered as interfaces or transporters within the meaning of the regulations mentioned - from the collection of biomass at home or abroad via trade and logistics to final processing. (tuev-nord.de)
Properties of biomass1
- Chemical composition and properties of biomass Energy plantations Preparation of biomass for fuel applications: Size reduction, Briquetting of loose biomass, Drying, and Storage and handling of biomass. (slideshare.net)
Distribution of biomass2
- A quantitative description of the distribution of biomass is essential for taking stock of biosequestered carbon ( 1 ) and modeling global biogeochemical cycles ( 2 ), as well as for understanding the historical effects and future impacts of human activities. (pnas.org)
- 2013), the regional maps present considerable disagreement in terms of absolute values and spatial distribution of biomass. (wur.nl)
Fossil8
- Agricultural residue biomass is highly recommended as clean and renewable sources of energy that increases the possibility of replacing the consumption of conventional energy fossil fuels. (bartleby.com)
- Biomass is applying for renewable energy credits in order to replace fossil fuels,' he said. (reuters.com)
- However, the technical infrastructure required for biomass power costs slightly more than comparable technologies using fossil fuels. (hydroquebec.com)
- It's true that biomass has the potential to be an energy source that is superior to fossil fuels from an environmental standpoint. (triplepundit.com)
- Biomass and fossil fuels both have global warming potential because when they are burned, carbon is released into the atmosphere. (triplepundit.com)
- A few years ago, biomass was viewed as a plentiful and renewable energy source that could help the state get away from its reliance on fossil fuel. (telegram.com)
- Ultimately, perhaps, we'll develop measurement protocols that will allow us to address the "upstream" carbon of our energy choices-fossil fuels and biomass alike. (sightline.org)
- It is expected that the data sent back from the satellite will also contribute new information to other areas of climate science, like measuring the biomass of desert regions to find fossil water and new water sources in arid regions as well as contributing to observations of ice sheet dynamics, subsurface geology and forest topography. (wikipedia.org)
Algae3
- Their rapid growth and richness in protein and oils give biomass from algae the potential for high returns. (wur.nl)
- There is ongoing research involving algae or algae-derived biomass. (wikipedia.org)
- Biomass" can refer to everything from corn for ethanol to algae to Indonesian palm oil to Oregon canola. (sightline.org)
Landfill2
- Used to process sewage, animal manure and landfill waste, this biomass production method uses the resulting methane for heat and power and prevents it from escaping to the atmosphere. (treehugger.com)
- Harnessing urban and agrifood biomass would be profitable in terms of avoided landfill costs, especially since they have climbed significantly in recent years. (hydroquebec.com)
Lignocellulose1
- Glycoside hydrolases are the enzymes involved in the degradation of the major fraction of biomass, such as polysaccharides present in starch and lignocellulose. (wikipedia.org)
Agricultural4
- Production of agricultural biomass in the EU, whether used for food, feed, material or energy, has to meet a series of statutory environmental rules regarding the quality of water, soils and air. (europa.eu)
- The burning of biomass occurs in a variety of settings, diverse fields in order to identify gaps in knowledge and including domestic heating and cooking, regeneration to develop new research strategies that would allow us to and clearing of agricultural lands, and intentional and address policy needs in this emerging area. (cdc.gov)
- A field tour of biomass harvesting at Southeast-Purdue Agricultural Center in Butlerville on Sept. 28 comes with both registration options. (purdue.edu)
- Biomass power generators have appealed to the Centre to treat them as an extension of agricultural activity and facilitate priority sector lending for the industry. (sify.com)