Sentences with phrase «biomass use for fuel»

The United States has the potential to dramatically expand biomass use for fuel and power.

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

George Huber, chemical engineer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Bright Idea: Produce ethanol or other renewable fuels from biomass that we do not use for food.

The team is analyzing the performance of even more efficient catalysts used to convert biomass to high value fuels to understand their disruption mechanism and how the catalyst synthesis affects its efficiency and selectivity for the conversion reaction.

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.

Researchers in China have generated gasoline fuel with a research octane number of 95.4 from biomass - derived γ - valerolactone (GVL)-- the highest octane number reported for biomass - derived gasoline fuel — using an ionic liquid catalyst.

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.

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.

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.

A better title would have been: «Fueled: The Effects of Using Food for Fuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and Using Food for Fuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and fFuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and ffuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and fuelfuel.

The same should apply for the broader use of biomass for fuel, heat and electricity.

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

Agricultural and forest - based industries, in both developed and emerging economies, generate substantial quantities of biomass residue and waste that can be used for energy production, to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and support sustainable growth.

Biomass is living or recently dead biological matter that can be used for fuel or industrial production.

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.

«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.

How CHP works is by using the heat that would otherwise be wasted in exhaust gases from fossil combustion systems, such as flue gases from a coal - or biomass - fueled boiler or exhaust from a gas turbine or reciprocating engine, to produce steam and / or hot water for various industrial or commercial needs.

Biomass - to - energy is a sustainable solution that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, assuming that secondary and tertiary biomass is used (rather than crops grown primarily for biomass fuel) to substitute the use of fossilBiomass - to - energy is a sustainable solution that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, assuming that secondary and tertiary biomass is used (rather than crops grown primarily for biomass fuel) to substitute the use of fossilbiomass is used (rather than crops grown primarily for biomass fuel) to substitute the use of fossilbiomass fuel) to substitute the use of fossil fuels.

• Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Energy Sector Methane Recovery and Use Initiative (2007) • IEA Energy Technology Essentials: Biofuel Production, Biomass Power for Power Generation and CHP, CO2 Capture and Storage, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Production and Distribution, Nuclear Power (2007 & 2006) • International CHP / DHC Collaborative (2007) • International Energy Technology Co-operation — Frequently Asked Questions (Chinese, Russian)(2006/7) • Renewables in Global Energy Supply (2007) • Energy Technology Perspectives Fact Sheets: Buildings and Appliances; Electricity Generation; Industry; Road Transport Technologies and Fuels; and Scenario Analysis (2006)

It is used in power generation, primarily for cooling thermal power plants; in the extraction, transport and processing of fuels; and, increasingly, in irrigation to grow biomass feedstock crops.

Biofuels: Liquid fuels and blending components produced from biomass feedstocks, used primarily for transportation.

Fuel Ethanol Minus Denaturant: An unobserved quantity of anhydrous, biomass - derived, undenatured ethanol for fuel Fuel Ethanol Minus Denaturant: An unobserved quantity of anhydrous, biomass - derived, undenatured ethanol for fuel fuel use.

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.

We have come a long way since humans first used biomass fuels for their fires over 800,000 years ago.

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.

«The large amount of energy required to isolate hydrogen from natural compounds (water, natural gas, biomass), package the light gas by compression or liquefaction, transfer the energy carrier to the user, plus the energy lost when it is converted to useful electricity with fuel cells, leaves around 25 % for practical use.»

Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Guess which country contains eco-criminals that can afford to use fossil fuels, and which country contains nature - lovers who are dependent on natural renewable organic biomass for energy?

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.

(Sec. 126) Amends the CAA to revise the definition of «renewable biomass» for purposes of the renewable fuel standard by expanding the amount of biomass from forested land that could be used to produce fuels under such standard and eliminating the requirement that feedstock crops come from previously cultivated land.

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,...».

-- If electricity is generated using both a renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resource and an energy source that is not a renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resource (as, for example, in the case of co-firing of renewable biomass and fossil fuel), the Commission shall issue Federal renewable electricity credits based on the proportion of the electricity that is attributable to the renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resource.

Ethanol and biodiesel have become an increasingly common source of transportation fuel and industry has expanded its use of biomass for onsite heat and power generation.

The clinker kiln is an ideal candidate for the use of a wide variety of fuels, including waste - derived fuels, such as tyres, plastics, biomass, municipal solid wastes and sewage sludge (see Section 7.3.2).

According to data collated by IEA (2006) the number of people using biomass resources as their primary fuel for cooking will increase (Table 4).

Industrial wastes and other organic materials could easily be gasified to both produce electricity and fuel as well as to eliminate some of the land area needed for landfills — land area that could be used for other things, like harvesting plant biomass.

The biomass fuel supply curve developed by the report's authors is particularly interesting, and suggests that 100MM + ton CDR from bio-CCS is possible in the western US largely from waste and residue feedstocks (which hold the potential to be more sustainable than dedicated feedstocks, assuming wastes aren't valued for other competing uses...).

Likewise, Hawaii has plenty of biomass resources that could potentially be used in many different ways, which is especially great news for a place with no indigenous fossil fuel reserves.

Indeed, corn is not the optimal basis for providing all the ethanol fuel we will need, but, as the President says, biofuels are needed to reduce our addiction to oil and to slow climate change — and the emerging biofuels market is spurring major investments in using biomass other than corn to make ethanol.

The preliminary engineering services will review use of Rentech's Fischer - Tropsch (FT) technology for the production of ultra-clean synthetic transportation fuels from synthesis gas (syngas) derived from fossil and biomass resources by the Clinton Project.

Coupled with other low - tech solutions such as thermal underwear, heated clothing and tile stoves, passive solar design could all but eliminate the use of fossil fuels and biomass for heating buildings throughout large parts of the world.

In a new set of simulations using an updated model accounting for dust and sea salt aerosols, Chuang et al. (2000b) obtained a forcing of 1.51 Wm - 2 for the first indirect effect from carbonaceous aerosols (0.52 and 1.16 Wm - 2 for fossil fuel and biomass burning aerosols, respectively).

The project reduces GHG emissions associated with the consumption of biomass for wood fuel traditionally used to boil drinking water.

Secondly, using more in the way of biofuels from sustainably - harvested biomass «could supply significant shares of the markets for jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel if DOE (Department of Energy) biofuels technology goals are met,» according to the TEF report authors.

Biomass fuel use, burning technique and reasons for the denial of improved cooking stoves by Forest User Groups of Rema - Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary, Bangladesh.

For example, starch from corn grown in the midwest has traditionally been the source of some of the ethanol used as a fuel additive in the U.S.. Another option for the conversion of cellulosic biomass, such as hemp stalks, to ethanol is their hydrolysis to sugar, followed by fermentation and removal of the produced ethanol by distillatiFor example, starch from corn grown in the midwest has traditionally been the source of some of the ethanol used as a fuel additive in the U.S.. Another option for the conversion of cellulosic biomass, such as hemp stalks, to ethanol is their hydrolysis to sugar, followed by fermentation and removal of the produced ethanol by distillatifor the conversion of cellulosic biomass, such as hemp stalks, to ethanol is their hydrolysis to sugar, followed by fermentation and removal of the produced ethanol by distillation.

The measure directs how a unit's overall efficiency shall be determined on the basis of outputs of electrical generation and useful thermal energy output, which is defined in the bill as (i) including direct heat and other valid thermal end - use energy requirements for which fuel or electricity would otherwise be consumed and (ii) excluding thermal energy used for the purpose of drying or refining biomass fuel.

Densified biomass fuel: Raw biomass, primarily wood, that has been condensed into a homogenously sized, energy - dense product, such as wood pellets, intended for use as fuel.

According to GigaOm, a model for consumer use has a bigger financial risk element than a commercial model, so EcoMow is now focusing on a larger version that could harvest big fields to produce biomass fuel pellets as a salable product.