Sentences with phrase «from plant biomass»

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His research is focused in two principal areas: The bio-production of commodity chemicals from plant biomass and the bio-production of high value pharmaceuticals.

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In the future, the range of bioproducts produced from plant biomass will be immense.

Not exact matches

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

INEOS Bio (which is the biofuel arm of petrochemical giant INEOS) and developer New Planet Energy say they will use the loan guarantee to build the «INEOS BioEnergy Center,» near Vero Beach, Florida, that will produce 8 million gallons of advanced biofuels and 6 MW of biomass power from plant waste and trash per year.

Middlebury's biomass gasification plant is the product of an administration comfortable with multi-million-dollar projects, made possible by a sizeable and wealthy circle of alumni, a massive endowment, huge tuition costs, and subsidies from our colossal nation - state.

One of the United State's newest dairy processing plants features advanced waste water treatment technology that not only radically improves biomass recovery and effluent quality, but also harnesses green energy from waste streams to drive -LSB-...]

One of the United State's newest dairy processing plants features advanced waste water treatment technology that not only radically improves biomass recovery and effluent quality, but also harnesses green energy from waste streams to drive production processes and reduce its carbon footprint.

Bio-jet fuel can be produced from various plant materials, including oil crops, sugar crops, starchy plants and lignocellulosic biomass, through various chemical and biological routes.

Other agricultural production goods include timber, fertilizers, animal hides, leather, industrial chemicals (starch, sugar, alcohols and resins), fibers (cotton, wool, hemp, silk and flax), fuels (methane from biomass, ethanol, biodiesel), cut flowers, ornamental and nursery plants, tropical fish and birds for the pet trade, and both legal and illegal drugs (biopharmaceuticals, tobacco, marijuana, opium, cocaine).

For her doctoral work, Kadukova explored new methods of metal sequestration from polluted water using waste plant material and biomass.

They used biomass, essentially waste from plant materials.

Based on measurements of 45,000 individual plants from 3,680 species, and using high - tech statistical mapping protocols, the team created global maps of plant traits including leaf nitrogen concentration, leaf phosphorus concentration, and specific leaf area (a measure of area displayed to intercept light per unit investment in leaf biomass).

Cellulosic ethanol — fuel derived from woody plants and waste biomass — has the potential to become an affordable, renewable transportation fuel that rivals gasoline, but lignin, one of the most ubiquitous components of the plant cell wall, gets in the way.

The plants help prevent erosion, and their accumulating biomass after they die keeps the wetlands from drowning as the delta subsides.

From the atmosphere's point of view, growing biomass to burn in a power plant and using the electricity to move a car avoids 10 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per acre, or 108 percent more emission offsets than ethanol.

Sixty - two scientists from 19 countries spanning six continents studied the relationships between plant biomass production and species diversity, culminating in a paper appearing in Science, the world's leading journal for cutting - edge scientific research.

«In the Southeast there is enough biomass from wood products alone to make 10 to 15 billion gallons of fuel a year,» says Mitch Mandich, CEO of Range Fuels, based in Broomfield, Colorado, the firm building what may be the first U.S. plant to make next - generation ethanol commercially.

From the products of a biomass gasification plant, i.e. hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide, the DemoSNG pilot plant directly produces methane and water by means of a nickel catalyst (SNG operation).

The DemoSNG pilot plant constructed by the KIT will be used in Sweden for the reliable and efficient production of methane from biomass - based carbon dioxide and variable amounts of hydrogen from green power.

Then, the volume flow in the plant can be doubled, utilization of carbon from biomass will increase to nearly 100 %, and a large amount of usable waste heat will be produced by the catalyst (PtG operation).

In order to characterize the biological properties of soil treated with biochar, the team incorporated torrefied plant residual biomass from the biodiesel crop Jatropha curcas into aridisol, a type of soil found in arid regions such as Botswana, and compared several soil properties with samples that had not been treated.

Published in Scientific Reports, the study showed that adding torrefied biomass to poor soil from Botswana increased water retention in the soil as well as — the amount of plant growth.

«Hydropower plants and thermoelectric power plants — which are nuclear, fossil -, and biomass - fueled plants converting heat to electricity — both rely on freshwater from rivers and streams,» explains Michelle Van Vliet, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, who led the study.

The amount of biomass available from corn and food crops is very small; for biofuels to have a large impact, we must harness energy from nonedible plants, also known as cellulosic biomass — wood and wood waste, agricultural waste, and energy crops.

Accordingly, it is possible that in the future, U.S. EPA or individual states may seek (or be required) to regulate carbon dioxide or other GHG emissions from biomass - fired power plants, including requiring such plants to retroactively obtain permits or install pollution control technology.

VärmlandsMetanol AB has selected Uhde, a ThyssenKrupp company, as technology supplier and engineering partner for a biomass - to - methanol plant in Hagfors, Sweden, with an annual production of 100,000 tonnes of fuel - grade methanol from forest - residue biomass.

His research has advanced our understanding of fundamental questions in plastid biochemistry and achieved important biotechnological and synthetic biology breakthroughs, including engineered insect resistance and the transfer of the entire metabolic pathway for artemisinic acid from a medicinal plant to a biomass crop.

These include environmentally friendly heterogeneous catalysis, energy efficient microwave and ultrasonic - activated processes, supercritical fluid extraction of valuable chemicals from plants, and novel materials derived from biomass.

Researchers from Harvard University has successfully developed an artificial photosynthesis system that can convert solar energy into biomass more efficiently than the fastest - growing plants.

Scientists employed methods developed in this study to tag each source of aerosol, such as fossil - fuel burning from vehicles and power plants, or biomass burning, and follow its path in the model.

HMF is a key intermediate in biomass conversion that can be derived from cellulose — a type of cheap and abundant plant matter.

JBEI, based in Emeryville, Cal., is a multi-institutional research partnership led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) dedicated to developing advanced drop - in biofuels — liquid fuels derived from the solar energy stored in plant biomass that can replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuels.

There are also potential industrial and environmental uses: Cellulose and woody stems from plants — in the form of paper, wood, and related materials — account for more than half of the biomass in waste dumps worldwide.

But, ultimately, all biomass energy comes from photosynthesis: plants using sunlight to convert CO2 in the atmosphere into all the carbon - based building blocks of life.

«For 20 million years, from the early Neogene approximately 23 million years ago until the Pleistocene started around 2 million years ago, this rule applied: The larger the amount of biomass produced by plants, the higher the diversity of terrestrial mammals that evolved.

«Kirk routinely assumes the responsibility of liaison between cooperating programs and is responsible for data collections that range from soil sampling to plant biomass sampling to taking physiological measurements with delicate instrumentation,» Xue said.

Complete restoration of deforested areas is unrealistic, yet 100 GtC carbon drawdown is conceivable because: (1) the human - enhanced atmospheric CO2 level increases carbon uptake by some vegetation and soils, (2) improved agricultural practices can convert agriculture from a CO2 ource into a CO2 sink [174], (3) biomass - burning power plants with CO2 capture and storage can contribute to CO2 drawdown.

Duhan, O.M. et al. (1999) «The antimutagenic activity of biomass extracts from the cultured cells of medicinal plants in the Ames test» Tsitol Genet Nov - Dec 33 (6): 19 - 25

Biodiesel blends are standard diesel fuels blended with a biomass component derived from plant oil and animal fats.

The majority of biomass created by a plant is typically derived from the atmosphere.

My post addressed the idea of using algae to recycle emissions from fossil fuel plants into new biomass, which could be used a number of ways.

There are enormous assumptions in most calculations, including the assumption that «carbon negative» technologies, like capturing CO2 from power plants burning biomass, can be done at a scale remotely relevant to the climate problem (to be relevant one needs to be talking in gigatons of avoided CO2 emissions per year — each a billion tons).

Though the woodchips used are currently being trucked it from up to 75 miles away, Middlebury is investigating growing all it needs locally.via: Environmental Leader Renewable Energy Burning Biomass: Austin, Texas Plans 100 Megawatt Waste - to - Energy Plant What Your Mother Didn't Tell You About Biomass Dutch Biomass Plant to Use Chicken Manure to Power 90,000 Homes

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

Another 8 percent came from biomass and plants that burn gas from landfills (which generates carbon but is considered «renewable» because the gas is released by decomposing garbage).

The electrical energy is used to produce hydrogen from water; carbon dioxide can be obtained from biomass gasification, cement plants, or carbon capture from coal - fired power plants.

In this future scenario with a high need for CDR, if the PUC had built the coal + CCS project, it could choose to retrofit the plant to a biomass + CCS power plant capable of removing carbon from the atmosphere at a relatively small incremental cost.