Sentences with phrase «feedstock for»

It can be argued that soybean is not the most efficient feedstock for biodiesel because it occupies large tracts of land, incurs considerable carbon debt (even without considering ILUC), and has a low annual rate of saved carbon from replacing fossil diesel.

Methanol has potential as a liquid fuel, but is also used as feedstock for production of formaldehyde and other chemicals.»

S2) that if the smallest area and carbon debt from LUC are given priority, then oil palm would be the best feedstock for biodiesel by far.

Recently we wrote about research into using kudzu as a feedstock for ethanol, as well as one businessman who is trying to commercialize «kudzunol».

Recently we wrote about research into using kudzu as a feedstock for ethanol, as well as one businessman who is trying to

Apparently the company is also working with researchers to develop algae as a feedstock for future tests, and has previously made waves by working with Airways New Zealand to land jumbos in idle as a means to save fuel.

Some advocates want even greater federal incentives for biomass, such as woody biomass from federal lands to qualify as renewable feedstock for biofuels production.

India is one of the world's leading cultivators of jatropha as a feedstock for biodiesel, with over one million hectares planted to date.

He estimates algae has an «oil - per - acre production rate 100 - 300 times the amount of soybeans, and offers the highest yield feedstock for biodiesel and the most promising source for mass biodiesel production to replace transportation fuel in the United States.»

Pentatonic is tapping in to this waste stream for feedstock for its products, which are intended to be truly «circular» in nature, by virtue of being made from 100 % recycled materials, being fully recyclable, and coming with a lifetime buy - back guarantee.

Fossils fuels are the feedstock for the petrochemical ndustries (sometimes called the chemical process industries), which manufacture everything from A to Z, such as tough synthetic fibers and exotic material suchas silicones and Teflon.

This has direct negative effects within the US; including a rise in the price of electricity, a rise in the price of foods (natural gas is a feedstock for fertilizers), a rise in the price of goods (natural gas is a feedstock, and source of industrial fuel), and a rise in the price of home heating fuel.»

USDA Research Shows Hemp Has Potential for Paper Production In 1997, the USDA Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin conducted an evaluation of hemp as a potential feedstock for the paper industry in that state.

Ford even made it clear that he planned on using only resources from the «annual growth of the fields» as the feedstock for his industrial ambitions.

Waste disposal for DSI may also be a significant variable cost, while the waste products from an FGD system can be sold as feedstock for industrial processes.

Their chemical industry also uses coal as a feedstock for fertilizer (ammonia) where natural gas would be better.

The idea of bio-fuels, at least from a policy implementation standpoint in the OEDC nations, has been largely centered on use as a feedstock for concentration to support transportation.

Corn is a poor feedstock for biofuel (although it way be useful to use non-food corn waste as feedstock).

Corn became the predominant feedstock for ethanol production because of its abundance and ease of transformation into alcohol.

However, with the Northwest not really being corn growing country, I imagine most of the feedstock for these facilities will have to be shipped in from the Midwest.

It's a fish - eat - fish world out there, which is bad news for ailing fisheries providing feedstock for aquaculture.

The annual harvest is used as feedstock for local village - scale charcoal retorts (thus minimizing haulage energy needs) with simple fairly efficient retorts converting about 67 % of the wood's carbon to charcoal, with the rest mostly going into hot hydrocarbon gasses that hold around 28 % of the wood's energy potential.

It is this type of ad hominem attack that has supported the climate change fraud and people making these slanderous claims should be held accountable for the part they have played in perpetrating this fraud which has crippled the economy and created global starvation by using basic food staples as feedstock for biofuels.

The success of biofuels in Brazil is largely a result of the high productivity of sugar cane and the suitability of the feedstock for efficient conversion to ethanol.

As wind, solar, and other energy sources come to meet civilization's energy needs, use of perennial biomass may shift to clean cookstoves and feedstock for paper, bioplastic, and other bio-based products.

It is a primary feedstock for ethylene, the building block of countless other products, such as plastics and tyres.

BP expects India's natural gas consumption to almost triple to support industrial sector use, including as a feedstock for the production of fertilizers.

In 2007, Amy won the Folio Eddie for excellence in magazine editorial for her feature on algae as a feedstock for biofuel, which was published in Sustainable Industries magazine.

The sugarcane would then provide feedstock for an ethanol plant, with leftover cane used to create biomass electricity at night with a nearby solar concentrator complex generating power during the day.

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).

All three Drawdown scenarios show agricultural production sufficient to meet food demand and provide a surplus that can be used in bio-based industry, for example as feedstock for bioplastic production.

As it turns out, these ngl are used as minor fuels, or as feedstock for plastics and other chemical products.

Today 6.5 % of the world's grain is being used as feedstock for global ethanol production representing only one million barrels per day of the 85million barrels consumed daily.

Cooking oil, palm oil biodiesel can reduce emissions relative to diesel (11/28/2007) A lifecycle analysis of biodiesel by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) shows that using palm oil derived from existing plantations can be an effective biofuel feedstock for reducing greenhouse gas emissions relative to conventional diesel fuel.

Sugarcane scores well when grown on degraded and abandoned croplands due to its high efficiency as a feedstock for ethanol, but again, as in all cases, its carbon payback time surges when its cultivation replaces tropical forest or savanna.

Energy producers have an economic incentive to prevent natural gas leaks: methane (the major component of natural gas) is a valuable commodity that provides heating and electricity to millions of American families and serves as a vital feedstock for chemical and manufacturing companies.

Called «marc,» grape waste could serve as an ideal feedstock for the production of ethanol, according to PhD candidate Kendall Corbin.

In terms of feedstock for CRFS, the global area of non-farmland and non-forest suitable for afforestation was found to be around 1.6 Gha.s (4.0 billion acres) in a recent joint study by WRI & WFN.

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.

The Fulton, Miss. project will allow BlueFire to use green and wood wastes available in the region as feedstock for the ethanol plant, which is designed to produce approximately 19 - million gallons of ethanol per year.

Even defenders of jatropha, a hardy shrub once considered a promising candidate for biofuels, are touting the possibility of genetic engineering to make it a viable feedstock for fuel.

IRVINE, Calif. and MOBILE, Ala., Sept. 27 — BlueFire Renewables, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BFRE.ob — News), a company focused on changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of renewable fuels from non-food cellulosic wastes, announced a contract with Cooper Marine & Timberlands to provide feedstock for BlueFire's planned cellulosic ethanol facility in Fulton, -LSB-...]

H2O and CO2 can supply the feedstock for all the liquid fuels currently used for transportation, which are just various molecular recombinations of hydrogen and carbon.

Oil and natural gas would no longer be needed as the feedstock for transportation fuel production.

-- At worst one could say it was an error of omission, and those errors are the feedstock for the half - truths that pseudoscience breeds on.

Camelina appears to be a promising renewable feedstock for producing hydrotreated renewable jet (HRJ) fuel, but annual production capacity for camelina - based HRJ is projected at only 68 — 98 million gallons by 2020.

And so far, AFAIK we have had precisely one shipload of ethane, as a feedstock for plastics manufacture.

This analysis focuses on perennial biomass, and models both woody and herbaceous plants as the main source of feedstock for dedicated electricity generation and combined heat and power generation.

Project Drawdown defines biomass as: the use of perennial biomass feedstock for dedicated electricity generation and combined heat and power generation.

A minimal first step would be to ensure that all fossil fuel inputs to biofuels are carbon - taxed, including natural gas used as feedstock for ammonia - based fertilizers of corn grown for ethanol.