Sentences with phrase «biomass fuels carbon»

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Hydrogen can be combined with carbon from agricultural biomass to produce fuel, fertilizer and other products.

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.

Saikawa, a specialist in atmospheric chemistry, is also studying levels of black carbon emissions in the outdoor environment generated by the burning of biomass fuels like yak dung.

«Under those conditions you get a very high conversion of all the carbon in the biomass into various gaseous products,» says Arie Geertsema, Range Fuel's chief technical officer.

«Today atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are implicated in climate change, and carbon sequestered in forest biomass reduces carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Making liquid fuels from gasified carbon - rich matter isn't actually a new idea, but it has never before been practical for biomass.

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.

Abstract: Black carbon (BC) from biomass and fossil fuel combustion alters chemical and physical properties of the atmosphere and snow albedo, yet little is known about its emission or deposition histories.

If sufficient hydrogen is available, nearly all of the carbon in the coal or biomass feedstock to a Fischer - Tropsch plant would end up in the fuel products and not in the air, eliminating the need to capture and sequester carbon dioxide, the authors said.

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.

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.

Tesoro Corporation plans to foster the development of biocrude, made from renewable biomass, which can be co-processed in its existing refineries along with conventional fossil crude oil to produce lower - carbon drop - in fuels.

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.

The amount of energy required to power this shipping process can account for 25 % of the total carbon emissions associated with biomass - fueled energy generation in Europe.

AvantiRenewables provides customers with flexible and tailored lower carbon fuel choices and one of its first offerings uses biomass technology to deliver heating and hot water for businesses.

There are 3 major reservoirs for carbon — the atmosphere, biomass (living organisms) and fossil fuels.

The candidate, I imagine, hits the «stop button» and asks «I know that converting biomass to fossil fuels is a long - term process and thus can't mitigate global warming, but won't biomass pick up the slack and remove carbon from the atmosphere.

Most carbon life cycle analysis, using published computer simulations, show that the emissions given off by trying to contain fire actually exceed those from the fire itself given in order to influence fire behavior fossil fuels are used to drive logging trucks, operate machinery, air tankers, and transport wood products, including biomass to fuels.

The topic is about carbon in biomass and in fossil fuels, and about CO2 released in burning them, not about the hypothetical super vivano eruption, like the yellow stone.

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.

The team also observed that GHG Avoided [GHGA = (1 - GHGI) · (lifecycle GHG emissions for the displaced fossil fuels] for BTL - RC - CCS is 56 % higher than that of EtOH - CCS largely because 56 % of the biomass carbon is stored underground for BTL - RC - CCS compared to only 15 % for EtOH - CCS.

Biomass (or bioenergy) carbon offset projects vary depending on whether they are methane avoidance projects, reducing deforestation, or avoiding fossil fuel use; some projects may deliver more than one of these.

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

«Even if we were able to use productive plants such as poplar trees or switchgrass, and store 50 % of the carbon contained in their biomass, in the business - as - usual scenario of continued, unconstrained fossil fuel use, the sheer size of the plantations for staying at or below 2 °C of warming would cause devastating environmental consequences,» Boysen says.

They say that the assertion that fuels made from biomass can be counted as carbon neutral is wrong.

There was some bad news for Drax recently as the UK government decided that biomass subsidies would not keep climbing as the «carbon price floor» — levied on fossil fuel production (and due to rise further)-- on electricity consumption has caused a backlash from manufacturers, consumer groups and energy suppliers who are concerned that the «tax will push up prices, make the UK uncompetitive and force the premature closure of coal - fired power plants, increasing the risk of blackouts.»

The sink swallowed up roughly 0.77 gigaton of carbon per year, persisting despite a significant increase in biomass burning emissions that occurred during the dry season of 2011, fueled by the rapid growth of vegetation that year.

«Cutting trees for fuel is antithetical to the important role that forests play as a sink for CO2 that might otherwise accumulate in the atmosphere,» Schlesinger writes in an article published yesterday in the journal Science, adding later that carbon neutrality «is only achieved» if harvested forests are allowed to regrow more biomass than was lost.

But most calculations claiming that bioenergy reduces greenhouse gas emissions relative to burning fossil fuels do not include the carbon dioxide released when biomass is burned.

This option would minimize the complexity of assessing the lifecycle carbon of each fuel by source and process by taxing identical biofuel and biomass products within each category at the same rate.

Similarly, a decision by EPA to classify biomass fuels as «carbon neutral» in its Clean Power Plan regulations would boost that sector more than a well - designed and hefty carbon tax would shrink it.

Nevertheless, a carbon tax shouldn't compound these perverse incentives by further incentivizing biofuels and biomass to replace fossil fuels.

In some cases, bioenergy appears to offer net climate benefits compared to fossil fuels because of carbon sequestration by plants grown for biofuel and biomass.

In fact, burning biomass directly emits a bit more carbon dioxide than fossil fuels for the same amount of generated energy.

One obstacle to subjecting combustion and / or production of biofuels and biomass to carbon taxation is the complexity of estimating carbon emissions from each fuel stream.

Using plant waste this way means you couldn't simply burn it for fuel, reducing the world's biomass potential; and there are the carbon costs of transporting it and processing it and such like.

In fact, burning biomass emits at least a little more carbon dioxide than fossil fuels for the same amount of generated energy.

Natural gas is added to the biomass feedstock to create a two - to - one hydrogen - to - carbon ratio necessary for «drop - in» transportation fuels that can be used in today's engines.

Burning biomass, whether directly as wood or in the form of ethanol or biodiesel, emits carbon dioxide, just like burning fossil fuels.

The latest controversy centers on EPA's proposed rule to characterize biomass burning as a carbon - neutral replacement for fossil fuels under the Clean Power Plan — an issue covered smartly in June 2016 by the Washington Post and in October 2016 by New York Times economic columnist Eduardo Porter.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, cellulosic biomass has the potential to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 86 percent compared to petroleum - based fuels, if it can be produced on a large - scale basis.

Solar jet fuel would be carbon - neutral assuming the CO2 is captured from atmospheric air (or comes from biomass) because the CO2 used in the fuel production is equivalent to the CO2 released in combustion.

BC FF is for black carbon from fossil fuel and biofuel, POA FF is for primary organic aerosol from fossil fuel and biofuel, BB is for biomass burning aerosols and SOA is for secondary organic aerosols.»

Since the Local Stakeholder Consultation meeting, ECOTRUST has been included under the Improved Cook Stoves for East Africa (ICSEA) Programme of Activities (PoA) which recently added a new methodology to allow ECOTRUST members to earn more carbon credits for shifting from a dependence on non-renewable biomass fuel to the use of renewable biomass as their primary source of fuel.

Biological options - Biological options for mitigation of climate change involve one or more of the three strategies: conservation - conserving an existing carbon pool, thereby preventing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere; sequestration — increasing the size of existing carbon pools, thereby extracting CO2 from the atmosphere; substitution - substituting biomass for fossil fuels or energy - intensive products, thereby reducing CO2 emissions.

During a 10 - year investigation detailed in the latest issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research, Stanford University scientist Mark Jacobson isolated the widespread warming effects from all sources of soot â $» the visible residue of burned wood, crops, oil, biomass and other fuels â $» from the climate impacts caused by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.

Forest biomass for energy can release three times more carbon than fossil fuels.

Studies of the global carbon cycle often identify biomass energy as being among the most important potential benefits associated with the forest industry value chain...» They then go on to worry that the use of paper fiber (biomass) for fuel would cause ``... - market - distorting public policies that disproportionately favor the use of these materials for their fuel value, - public policies that fail to recognize the direct and indirect economic and social benefits associated with using biomass as a feed stock for forest products manufacturing,...».

Enviva's claim is only possible because of a UK and EU «policy loophole» — which does not apply in America — classing biomass fuel such as wood pellets as «zero carbon».