Sentences with phrase «based biomass»

We believe this approach has significant advantages over large - scale, centralized combustion - based biomass power plants in terms of higher efficiency, lower fuel risk and reduced emissions.»

Of course, you've got to have a pair to carry - here's a pair of rice - based biomass and polypropelene plastic chopsticks.

UNEP Publications: This report explores how the management of land - based biomass production and consumption can be developed towards a higher degree of sustainability across different scales: from the sustainable management of soils on the field to the sustainable management of global land use as a whole.

The other part is controlled by the variability in the total amount of land - based biomass.

Eligible feedstocks for gasoline substitutes are waste - based biomass and purpose grown crops with a carbon intensity substantially lower than current average California produced ethanol using Midwest corn feedstocks (80.7 gCO2 - eq / MJ).

Eligible feedstocks for diesel substitutes are waste - based biomass and purpose grown crops with a carbon intensity substantially lower than soy (83.25 gCO2 - eq / MJ).

For conventional fermentation to yield hydrogen, the process must use carbohydrate - based biomass.

Despite their overall satisfaction with the spending plan, the Adirondack Council said they were displeased with a provision that declares wood - based biomass energy to be «carbon - neutral,» encouraging federal support for its expansion.

Nathan Gilliland was the founder of Boston - based biomass energy company Harvest Power and more recently served as an entrepreneur - in - residence with Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, one of the world's largest venture capital firms.

Not exact matches

His Green New Deal calls for 100 % clean energy by 2030 (no natural gas, nukes, biomass) combined with a full employment job guarantee program based on a sustainable economy.

Under a new EU directive, bioethanol - based fuels — which are made by fermenting biomass — must save 70 % greenhouse gas emissions compared to their fossil - fuel counterparts starting in 2021.

But the executives of Big Oil can rest easy for now: Even the most mature biomass - to - biofuels processor — the Hempstead, New York — based Changing World Technologies — is still struggling after five years of operation at large scale.

Jacobson's research, detailed in a paper published July 30 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, is based on a three - dimensional computer model simulation of the impacts of biomass burning.

«The environmental impact of prescribed burns has historically been based on data from clean fuels in areas of good air quality, so we have likely been under - predicting the impact of biomass emissions in polluted areas,» Asa - Awuku said.

In order to make a detailed record of this structure and be able to convert it into biomass, the satellite data is complemented by ground - based measurements.

Based on measurements of 45,000 individual plants from 3,680 species, and using high - tech statistical mapping protocols, the team created global maps of plant traits including leaf nitrogen concentration, leaf phosphorus concentration, and specific leaf area (a measure of area displayed to intercept light per unit investment in leaf biomass).

The German government has boosted funding for new institutes such as the German Biomass Research Center (DBFZ) in Leipzig, as well as existing organisations such as the Berlin - based Helmholtz Association, which operates 18 research centres across the country.

«We can do this while simultaneously producing from the biomass lignin - free cellulose, which is the basis of ethanol and other liquid fuels.

«Almost all of their expenses are based on buying oil or natural gas or biomass,» says Teamey.

«We demonstrated that these ionic liquids are excellent in pre-treating biomass and compare well with imidazolium - based ionic liquids,» Singh explains.

«We have a billion tons of biomass that go unutilized in the U.S. on an annual basis, and if we could turn that into fuel, we could roughly produce a third of the need in the U.S.,» Keasling says.

«Because this process involves biomass - based production of polymers, we can potentially create a more sustainable and energy - efficient process.»

«This PIL - based technique can be easily scaled up and is likely to be both more energy efficient and less expensive than existing biomass pretreatment techniques for removing lignin,» Achinivu says.

This methodology is based on the prior aromatization through infusion of a yeast biomass for subsequent release into the wine.

Based on biomass and chemical analyses, four dominant factors were identified: soil P, soil N, foliar P, and seedling age.

The changes in biomass are worrying, says Michael Hirshfield, chief scientist of the advocacy group Oceana, based in Washington, D.C. Populations of small fish tend to boom and bust — making ecosystems less stable — much more when the ranks of top predators have been gutted.

Enzymes, genetically engineered to avoid sticking to the surfaces of biomass such as corn stalks, may lower costs in the production of cellulose - based biofuels like ethanol.

«In the Southeast there is enough biomass from wood products alone to make 10 to 15 billion gallons of fuel a year,» says Mitch Mandich, CEO of Range Fuels, based in Broomfield, Colorado, the firm building what may be the first U.S. plant to make next - generation ethanol commercially.

The DemoSNG pilot plant constructed by the KIT will be used in Sweden for the reliable and efficient production of methane from biomass - based carbon dioxide and variable amounts of hydrogen from green power.

Hydrothermal carbonization i.e., a method which at high temperatures and increased pressure converts biomass in a closed system in aqueous suspension into biochar, served as the basis.

Electricity production from biomass, coal, gas and hydropower for instance induces much higher indirect greenhouse gas emissions than nuclear electricity, or wind and solar - based power supply.»

The team analysed evidence such as land use, land suitability and agricultural biomass data to create a robust model that compares different scenarios for 2050, including scenarios based on maintaining current trends.

Thereby, bioelectrorefineries integrate biomass conversion processes and equipment to produce fuels, power, and chemicals from biomass, and are based on the combination of microbial and electrochemical conversions,» Harnisch says.

Researchers at the University of California, Merced, the University of California, Santa Cruz, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of Texas at Austin and Boston - based software firm Wise Eddy will use the information to analyze the ocean's health and respiration, its biomass and other information critical to marine life.

JBEI has established world - class and differentiated expertise in the use of ionic liquids (ILs) as a viable biomass pretreatment solvent and potential game changing conversion technology, but there remain several significant scientific challenges that must be addressed before an affordable IL - based process is commercially viable.

On high biomass burning days, both biomass burning and human - based activities equally contributed to levels of secondary organic aerosol downwind of Mexico City.

We are committed to deploying our CBP technology across a wide variety of biomass sources to produce replacements for petroleum based fuels and chemicals.

Coal - to - liquid fuels with carbon capture and storage could replace about 15 — 20 % of current fuel consumption in the transportation sector (2 — 3 million barrels per day; the lower estimate holds if coal is also used to produce coal - and - biomass - to - liquid fuels) and would have lifecycle CO2 emissions similar to petroleum - based fuels.

JBEI, based in Emeryville, Cal., is a multi-institutional research partnership led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) dedicated to developing advanced drop - in biofuels — liquid fuels derived from the solar energy stored in plant biomass that can replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuels.

To date, biomass - derived synthetic paraffinic kerosenes (SPK) have required blending with petroleum feedstocks on a 50 % basis to... Read more →

Jacobson's research, out this week in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, is based on 3 - D computer model simulations of the impacts of biomass burning.

But, ultimately, all biomass energy comes from photosynthesis: plants using sunlight to convert CO2 in the atmosphere into all the carbon - based building blocks of life.

Based on 14,000 fossils, the scientists reconstructed the diversity of terrestrial large mammals and compared it with data on the biomass production of plants during the same time period.

Other biomass - based fuels, however, are genuinely sustainable — fuels derived from things like crop waste, or switchgrass, or sustainably harvested cover crops.

Pros: Owners enjoy a certain level of independence; Wide - spread brand recognition; A built - in customer base; Quality and consistency are determined by Biomass is a cheap and readily available source of energy.

Duration: Approximately 30 mins 27 slides covering: • The Origin of Energy • Solar Energy and Producers • Ecological Pyramids • Number Pyramids • Biomass Pyramids • Energy Pyramids Assessment Sheet - Word Document based assessment includes questions that students should be able to answer directly from the presentation, or by applying the information from the presentation.

A powerpoint based in the deep dark wood all around the gruffalo that covers food chains and webs, ID keys, pyramid of numbers and biomass and adap...

In this inquiry - based lesson, students measure the biomass of trees, calculate the carbon stored by...

On an annual basis, each acre is capable of producing 15 dry - tons of biomass that can be converted thru MAF to a net (after internal consumption) 100 MCF of renewable natural gas, methane — 100 million BTU's.

The biomass types of interest are giant, perennial legumes — thus not needing nitrogen together with biologically based fertilizer that is derived from the co-product of MAF.