Sentences with phrase «feedstock crops»

Converting land from wilderness or grasslands to plant biodiesel feedstock crops also releases GHG and is not sustainable.

Economic Benefits The development of an advanced biofuel industry will help rebuild the local and regional economies devastated as a result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita by providing: (1) increased value to the feedstock crops which will benefit local farmers and provide more revenue to the local community; (2) increased investments in plants and equipment which will stimulate the local economy by providing construction jobs initially and the chance for full - time employment after the plant is completed; (3) secondary employment as associated industries develop due to plant co-products becoming available at a competitive price; and (4) increased local and state revenues collected from plant operations will stimulate local and state tax revenues and provide funds for improvements to the community and to the region.

The authors of the letter also say that some potential biofuel feedstock crops — including switchgrass and miscanthus — are perennials that sequester carbon into soil and thrive on land often not suitable for other crops.

Overall the researchers note that «converting tropical rainforests requires ~ 30 - 300 years for carbon payback for all feedstock crops, even when accounting for these major changes in energy and agricultural technology.»

(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.

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.

UC ANR provides facilities for growing engineered feedstock crops.

They include some of the most conspicuous forest mushrooms, including the iconic, flaming red «fly agaric,» Amanita muscaria, and are of interest to bioenergy researchers, because they play roles in maintaining the health of candidate feedstock crop trees.

Not exact matches

The crops from these practices have been designed to be feedstock rather than food.

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

In the second study, Timothy Searchinger, a researcher at Princeton University, looked at a future scenario in which the United States substantially increases its production of corn - based ethanol, a move that would decrease domestic crops for food and feedstock.

«One of the reasons for interest in these second - generation cellulosic feedstocks is that if they can be grown on low - quality soil, they wouldn't compete for land with food crops, such as corn.

The algae uses CO2 from air or industrial emitters with sunlight and saltwater to create fuel while dramatically reducing the carbon footprint, costs and water usage, with no reliance on food crops as feedstocks.

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].

This has significance and potential impact for agriculture and the national economy in the form of developing potential biofuels feedstocks, understanding host - pathogen interactions, and improving crop plant biomass.

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).

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).

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

Non food crops and waste are good feedstocks.

The total addressable market for electricity generation technologies using perennial crops as feedstock is based on estimated global electricity generation in terawatt - hours from 2020 - 2050.

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.

We also have a sorghum crop, increasing dramatically, on less desirable land conditions (not suited to corn) that supplied 10 - 15 % of last years ethanol 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.

Other studies of nearly decarbonizing the power sector by mid-century show that more efficient, advanced biopower technologies using low - carbon feedstocks, such as agricultural residues and energy crops, could provide a modest contribution of up to 15 percent of U.S. electricity generation (NREL 2012, UCS 2013).

Sugar cane is the most economically attractive agricultural feedstock for liquid biofuel, while maize and other cereal and oilseed crops from the Northern Hemisphere are less competitive under market conditions (Figure 16).

The proposed changes included revising registration, recordkeeping and reporting provisions for compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas; a lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions analysis for renewable electricity, renewable diesel and naphtha produced from landfill biogas; changes to deal with issues related to crop residue and corn kernel fiber when determining volumes of cellulosic feedstocks; a lifecycle analysis of advanced butanol; and changes to the E15 misfueling mitigation regulations.

Project Drawdown defines perennial biomass as: the use of perennial grasses and coppiced woody plants for bioenergy feedstock, instead of annual crops like corn.

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].

As is the case with biofuels, there is also the significant risk that inappropriately applied incentives to encourage biochar might increase the cost and reduce the availability of food crops, if growing biomass feedstocks becomes more profitable than growing food.»

Almost all of these projects differ from the ethanol being blended into the US gasoline supply in that they are made from inedible feedstocks, which sidesteps one of the critiques often leveled at biofuels: that they compete in with crops raised for people or livestock, driving up food prices.

So, more attention and resources are going into the producing of ethanol and other biofuel types from second - generation feedstocks, sometimes known as non-food crops.

Rather, it will be a first - generation biofuel whose feedstock is generally understood to compete with either land and water use for food crops or carbon sinks such as rainforests.»

In years where we have a bumper crop of corn, and produce more than we need for feed, the market to distilleries will provide built in price supports; the DDGS from the other ethanol feedstocks will provide some cushion to food production in years when the corn crop is bad.

The next generation of bioenergy technology aims to replace current feedstocks such as corn, sorghum, sugarcane, rapeseed, soy, and oil palm with dedicated cellulosic crops (Kszos et al. 2000; Heaton et al. 2008b), such as woody tree species and the grasses switchgrass (Panacum vergatum) and miscanthus (Miscanthus x giganteus)(Lewandowski et al. 2000).

We believe energy crops like sugar cane, miscanthus and energy cane are the best feedstocks to deliver economic, sustainable and scaleable biofuels to the world.

Biofuels offer one possibility for reducing the carbon footprint of these transport systems, but many plants grown as biofuel feedstocks compete with food crops and / or wild lands.

Using sustainable feedstock — waste biomass or perennial crops — is crucial.