Sentences with phrase «as biomass fuel»

The Waxman - Markey bill that passed through the House last year included language that would ultimately create a market for small - diameter trees, brush and forest slash to be used as biomass fuel.

The algae is then expected to be harvested and used as biomass fuel in the plant's cement kiln.

What can't be harvested can be used as Biomass fuel and fertilizer

Trials are just beginning in Britain of a giant reed which may have a higher yield as a biomass fuel than any other crop.

Not exact matches

Methanol production is also experiencing a global resurgence, particularly in China where the finished product — typically extracted from solid waste / biomass, but also from natural gas and coal feedstocks — is widely used in chemical production and industrial processes, as well as in blended vehicle fuel.

The province can drastically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels for power generation and replace it with renewable energy sources such as wind, sun, biomass, hydro and geothermal energy.

And the biomass boiler provides heat and hot water using by - products from the gin distillation process as a fuel source.

Annual Sustainability Report - The report should contain profiling information regarding the sustainability characteristics of their fuel such as: type of biomass, country of origin and whether it conforms to any environmental quality assurance standards.

The results suggest biomass burning of polluted forest fuels may exacerbate poor air quality — and related health concerns — in some of the world's most heavily polluted areas, among them, the Los Angeles metropolitan area, which is expected to suffer from more wildfires as drought conditions continue.

That means that despite the promise of biomass as a petroleum substitute, demand will require not simply petro - fuel or biofuel or electriccars, but all three.

The CHP plant will use biomass, such as wood, for fuel.

Ultimately, this facility may be able to convert as much as 1,000 metric tons of biomass per day into liquid fuel; the goal is to build a commercial - scale facility that would churn out 50 million gallons (189.2 million liters) of transportation fuels per year.

Black carbon aerosols — particles of carbon that rise into the atmosphere when biomass, agricultural waste, and fossil fuels are burned in an incomplete way — are important for understanding climate change, as they absorb sunlight, leading to higher atmospheric temperatures, and can also coat Arctic snow with a darker layer, reducing its reflectivity and leading to increased melting.

These «second - generation» bioenergy crops are often seen as the future of bioenergy because, as perennials, they are far better at storing carbon in the soil and in their biomass than traditional fuel crops like corn and canola.

Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).

City - sized maps of terrain and life on the sea - floor have revealed that drifts of «marine snow» on submarine hillsides act as a source of food to fuel a higher biomass of marine life on the hills than on the flatter plains surrounding hills.

Examples of indirect use which require energy harvesting are electricity generation through wind turbines or photovoltaic cells, or production of fuels such as ethanol from biomass.

A large of proportion of energy research aims to establish and optimize renewable sources such as photovoltaics, hydrogen fuel cells, biomass, and wind power, but energy research can also be about improving old technologies.

As with any biomass fuel, any carbon dioxide produced when the reed is burnt was extracted from the air when it grew, so producing and burning it does not add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

In another approach, his group has demonstrated in the lab all the chemical reactions necessary to turn biomass such as corn fiber into biocrude, an intermediate product on the way to gasoline and diesel fuel, he says, although the reactions are not yet efficient enough to operate on a large scale.

The new analysis found that conventional crops such as corn had the highest yield of biomass that can be turned into biofuel on marginal lands, although their ability to reduce CO2 is harmed by tilling, fertilizing and other CO2 - producing activities necessary to turn them into fuel.

That's not so far - fetched, as oil and other fossil fuels derive from ancient biomass.

The center's mission is to develop chemical catalysts and associated technologies that can transform biomass such as trees, grasses and corn stover into fuel and chemicals.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits or the introduction of taxes or other restrictions on fossil fuel usage or emissions of GHGs and other pollutants.

The use of biomass fuels is expressly recognized in the plan as a means to achieve these targets.

The bulk of Winning Our Energy Independence is devoted is describing how solar technologies — sun, wind, and biomass — and garbage are abundant and can provide virtually all of our energy as coal and nuclear plants and gasoline - fueled transportation are phased out.

This interface impacts areas as diverse as prolonging lithium - ion battery life, designing catalytic reactions that can convert biomass to biofuels, and extracellular electron transfer in microbial communities where bacteria catalyze electrode surfaces and shuttle electrons externally, as in a microbial fuel cell.

VärmlandsMetanol AB has selected Uhde, a ThyssenKrupp company, as technology supplier and engineering partner for a biomass - to - methanol plant in Hagfors, Sweden, with an annual production of 100,000 tonnes of fuel - grade methanol from forest - residue biomass.

Interest in biofuels — fuel derived from living organisms including biomass or their metabolic byproducts, such as manure from cows — grew throughout the end of the twentieth century as these are renewable energy sources, unlike other natural resources such as petroleum, coal, and nuclear fuels.

Prior to joining at the DOE JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni was a co-founder and Chief Science Officer at a clean technology start - up, Bio Architecture Lab, Inc. where his significant achievement was using synthetic biology to develop the first microbial platform technologies enabling to unlock the potential of macroalgae as highly environmentally sustainable and cost - effective biomass for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals.

Scientists employed methods developed in this study to tag each source of aerosol, such as fossil - fuel burning from vehicles and power plants, or biomass burning, and follow its path in the model.

As a matter of fact, if you burn every little bit of fossile fuel and all the free carbons and any thing of biomass origin, you would exactly exhaust all oxygen and render the atmosphere back to the lifeless and oxygen depleted primordial environment.

It will focus on catalyst development for four applications: proton exchange membrane fuel cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2, which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.

Accelergy Corporation has begun production of a synthetic fuel from coal and biomass, to be evaluated by the United States Air Force (USAF) as the industry benchmark for 100 % synthetic jet fuel.

Australia's Syngas Limited has engaged Rentech to provide Fischer - Tropsch fuels production preliminary engineering services for Syngas» proposed commercial scale coal and biomass to liquids (CBTL) fuels facility in Southern Australia, known as the Clinton Project.

In the syngas upgrading to hydrocarbon fuels pathway, biomass feedstocks are gasified to produce a syngas (H2 / CO), which is used as a feedstock for hydrocarbon biofuel production.

Black carbon is the term used for sooty particles produced by fossil fuel combustion and come from things such as automobile exhaust and biomass burning.

Researchers at the EBI are searching for more efficient ways to use non-food biomass like cellulose as the starting material for fuel production as well as for ways to boost the concentration of fuel produced and improve on the efficiency of the process.

Due to diminishing petroleum reserves, non-food biomass (lignocellulose) is an attractive alternative as a feedstock for the production of renewable chemicals and fuels.

As AvantiRenewables develops, biomass will form the first component of what is expected to be a suite of flexible green fuel solutions available to commercial customers.

The process can take as little as 24 hours, and leaves an output that can be used as soil improver, biomass fuel or can be put back through the machine to be reduced to virtually nothing.

The company also stressed, however, the potential for natural gas, Gas - to - Liquid synthetic fuels, and Biomass - to - Liquid fuels as part of a portfolio of solutions.

Lack of fuel wood and use of poor biomass materials as alternative energy sources has aggravated forest destruction.

Just as the government requires ethanol to be blended into gasoline, they also require or promote the blending of renewable biomass components into diesel fuels.

As a matter of fact, if you burn every little bit of fossile fuel and all the free carbons and any thing of biomass origin, you would exactly exhaust all oxygen and render the atmosphere back to the lifeless and oxygen depleted primordial environment.

And nothing goes to waste; the ashes left over from this biomass fuel conversion process is used as fertilizer for future plants.

The question of where we would get enough biomass to replace fossil fuels in a sustainable way could be very tricky, as could be the question of how we build the infrastructure required to ship all of the sequestered CO2 to sites where we can bury it cost - effectively.

But against the backdrop of the decade - long nuclear contests, the FIT system (as established by the EEG in 1991) that obligated supply companies to purchase wind, solar, and biomass power and then pass costs to consumers was fueling tremendous growth of renewables.

As biomass is a carbon neutral fuel, the power generation will have zero GHG emissions.

In their paper, the researchers note that use of lignocellulosic biomass as a feedsstock could enable large - scale production of these fuels with concomitant significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and the potential for eventual cost parity with petroleum - derived fuels.