Sentences with phrase «energy feedstock»

(01/17/2008) U.S. incentives for biofuel production are promoting deforestation in southeast Asia and the Amazon by driving up crop prices and displacing energy feedstock production, say researchers.

However, bioenergy that entails the dedicated use of land to grow the energy feedstock will undercut efforts to combat climate change and to achieve a sustainable food future.

Forest thinning to improve forest health by reducing fuel loads on eastside dry land forests can provide woody biomass for additional renewable energy feedstocks.

Not exact matches

Having plentiful costly energy is not the same as having plentiful cheap energy, and oil remains the ultimate transportable energy and chemical feedstock.

Chemical and fertilizer companies, which use gas as both a feedstock and energy source, say lower prices have reduced costs and made the U.S. a more competitive manufacturing location.

«Also, to target a zero - waste society by fully turning agro-waste feedstock into a portfolio of energy and chemicals to substitute non-renewable equivalents, with favorable air, water and soil impacts.»

Tags: Charlotte Morton, RHI, best practice scheme, feedstocks, food waste collection, energy crops

«We also welcome restated backing for developing UK shale gas reserves which in turn will support our vital future energy and feedstock security.

The Department of Energy (DOE) operates a Bioenergy Feedstock Development Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee.

Thermal depolymerization, Appel says, has proved to be 85 percent energy efficient for complex feedstocks, such as turkey offal: «That means for every 100 Btus in the feedstock, we use only 15 Btus to run the process.»

Domestic industries can make it from a range of chemical feedstocks and energy sources (for instance, from renewable, nuclear and fossil - fuel sources), and the nontoxic gas could serve as a virtually pollution - free energy carrier for machines of many kinds.

So say researchers at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which alongside Seattle - based Bio Architecture Lab (BAL) has secured $ 9 million from the Department of Energy to explore seaweed's potential as a feedstock for biobutanol, an advanced biofuel.

In the United States, the volume of biodiesel from recycled feedstocks like used vegetable oil has nearly doubled since 2011, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Nearly 40 percent will be feedstock for a 30 - million - gallon - per - year biodiesel plant run by Western Energy Solutions / Concord Blue USA.

The paper, «Coupling Hydrothermal Liquefaction and Anaerobic Digestion for Energy Valorization From Model Biomass Feedstocks,» was co-authored by Rodrigo A. Labatut, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile; Andrew H. Kim; and former post-doctoral researcher Joseph G. Usack.

The problem isn't energy efficiency; it's feedstock.

«Cheap, energy - efficient and clean reaction to make chemical feedstock: Combining experimental and computer chemistry, scientists find the conditions to break carbon - hydrogen bonds at low temperature with cheap titanium in place of rare metals.»

«Hydrogen is seen as an important future energy carrier as the world moves from fossil fuels to renewable feedstocks, and our research has shown that even garden grass could be a good way of getting hold of it.»

Because platinum is at the center of many clean energy and green chemicals production technologies, such as fuel cells, catalytic converters, and value - added chemicals from bio-renewable feedstocks, the new, less expensive platinum - copper catalysts could facilitate broader adoption of such environmentally friendly devices and processes, she added.

To produce an energy - efficient method of synthesizing and extruding high - performance thermoplastic elastomers based on lignin, the ORNL team needed to answer several questions: Can variations in lignin feedstocks be overcome to make a product with superior performance?

The two main factors that contribute to a sustainable future industry are the source of electric energy and the carbon feedstock.

He has excelled in three disparate areas of inorganic chemistry; modern f - element chemistry, energy production and storage, and advances in conversion of biologically derived carbohydrates into chemical feedstocks and fuels.

A team from the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa is developing a new one - pot process to produce gasoline - grade (C6 — C18) hydrocarbon oil from polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)-- an energy storage material formed from renewable feedstock in many bacterial spEnergy Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa is developing a new one - pot process to produce gasoline - grade (C6 — C18) hydrocarbon oil from polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)-- an energy storage material formed from renewable feedstock in many bacterial spenergy storage material formed from renewable feedstock in many bacterial species.

Researchers from three US national labs — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)-- have performed the first, fully integrated assessment of the quality and yield of common feedstocks from the field to hydrocarbon blendstock production using the fast pyrolysis - hydrotreating pathway.

The California Air Resources Board has issued Sustainable Oils Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Clean Energy Holdings, a feedstock - only pathway for the production of camelina - based fuels under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

Also featured, is a «big idea» which considers converting feedstock to energy.

And catalysts both speed reactions in water and use the liquid as a feedstock to create renewable energy sources such as hydrogen.

Use of bioenergy to draw down CO2 should employ feedstocks from residues, wastes, and dedicated energy crops that do not compete with food crops, thus avoiding loss of natural ecosystems and cropland [183]--[185].

Energy Secretary Chu and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack announced the joint selection of awards of up to $ 6.3 million towards fundamental genomics - enabled research leading to the improved use of plant feedstocks for biofuel production.

Using leucaena, as an example of an anaerobic fermentation feedstock — does not provide the «best» of «best» as a source of energy.

The LANL report is a proposal to use combustion products (water and carbon dioxide are both combustion products, not sources of chemical energy) as feedstock for synthesizing a liquid that conveniently stores some of the energy produced by the nuclear power source.

And while I'm not personally a fan of ethanol, the plant described at the following link seems to address many of the concerns about ethanol and big - scale farming by treating wastes from one process as feedstock into another and reducing the amount of energy required at each stage.

One major step on the pathway to a circular economy is finding ways to transform waste materials into feedstock for other products, whether that's as a raw material for production, or as a «fuel» for generating energy.

Therefore, since an energy input is only required at start - up, it is desirable to run the unit continuously, to the extent that feedstock availability and maintenance requirements allow.

So the company spend a lot of time, energy and money sourcing recycled feedstock, getting it processed into footwear grade materials, and supplying it to shoemakers.

Biomass energy under the Clean Power Plan is considered an emissions control technology, but the EPA has expressed concern with the sustainability of many biomass feedstocks.

Byproduct: A secondary or additional product resulting from the feedstock use of energy or the processing of nonenergy materials.

The project is an extension of a $ 25 million U.S. Department of Energy program to demonstrate this transformational technology on California - relevant feedstocks.

A full lifecycle analysis of Bio-SNG production undertaken by North Energy Associates found that for many types of feedstock, the lifecycle CO2e savings of Bio-SNG compared with fossil fuel alternatives are typically ~ 90 %.

A straightforward comparison of the adoption and emissions results with other sources is not possible, due to the specificities of the feedstock considered herein, since all other global energy system models consider aggregate numbers for biomass and waste.

These feedstocks should therefore be prioritized to energy uses that can probably not be met any other way, such as low - carbon fuels for airplanes.

Biomass energy is a true solution only if it uses appropriate feedstock, such as waste from mills and agriculture or sustainably grown perennial crops.

Governments should exclude bioenergy feedstocks that rely on the dedicated use of land from laws designed to encourage or require renewable energy.

Plastics have a high energy content that can be converted to electricity, synthetic gas, fuels and recycled feedstocks for new plastics and other products of chemistry.

Michael Blaylock, Ph.D., vp of systems development at Edenspace Systems, reported on the status of Energy Corn ™, a feedstock designed to lower the cost of producing cellulosic biofuels from corn stover.

«The U.S. and Europe can not produce enough plant feedstocks to meet targets» for biofuel production — even with cellulosic corn — as defined by government mandates, which are largely being driven by a growing demand for energy independence and national security concerns, said Thurmond.

Advanced biofuels can be derived from lignocellulosic feedstocks, such as agricultural waste (e.g., corn stover, wheat straw, rice hulls), agricultural processing byproducts (e.g., corn fiber or sugar cane bagasse), forestry and wood processing waste, the paper portion of municipal solid waste, or dedicated energy crops such as switchgrass.

Geography may determine which type of biofuel technology is most readily adopted in a specific region, depending on what type of feedstock and biomass is locally available, thereby maximizing local resources and minimizing the energy and cost required to transport these resources.

This technical document focuses on the potential of renewable energy sources for process heat in the industrial sector and for biomass feedstock substitution in industrial processes.

Devoting land to growing feedstock for liquid biofuels, or growing biomass for generating electricity, augurs the greatest potential energy sprawl of the major energy alternatives under discussion.