Sentences with phrase «other biomass into»

Turning crop wastes and other biomass into charcoal and spreading it on tropical soils can sequester carbon and boost crop productivity

While popular catalysts called zeolites could help turn paper manufacturing waste and other biomass into fuel, the catalyst crumbles after just two days in hot water.

«Learning about how termites convert wood and other biomass into sugars may be applicable to the production of sustainable biofuels,» Professor Lo concluded.

Turning trees, grass, and other biomass into fuel for automobiles and airplanes is a costly and complex process.

Not exact matches

In other words, «biomass» describes the mass of all biological organisms, dead or alive, excluding biological mass that has been transformed by geological processes into substances such as coal or petroleum.

«The idea is to demonstrate that the combination of our pyrolysis and our upgrading technology provides superior economic returns for people who own biomass and want to turn it into transportation fuels,» Rekoske says — an effort that could be useful on other islands or even the U.S. mainland.

Tropical forests convert more carbon from the atmosphere into biomass than any other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.

«Maybe if we can transfer the genetic information to make these oils into quicker growing organisms like other algae that grow a lot quicker or a land plant that can produce large amounts of biomass, we can have them produce oil for us.»

The new analysis found that conventional crops such as corn had the highest yield of biomass that can be turned into biofuel on marginal lands, although their ability to reduce CO2 is harmed by tilling, fertilizing and other CO2 - producing activities necessary to turn them into fuel.

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When storms, fires, or other disturbances kill a great number of trees, the dead biomass is decomposed by fungi, insects, and the like, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Like its cousins, common forms of algae, cyanobacteria suck in huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the environment and convert it into other materials, such as biomass.

Some technologies focus on improved ways of breaking down biomass for conversion into fuel, some on engineering plants with the characteristics most advantageous for biofuels, and still others on creating co-products that can help make advanced biofuels economically viable.

By combining the cellulose - breakdown and sugar - conversion steps, we are very close to a single - step method of converting raw biomass into a new platform chemical — a chemical you can readily turn into a transportation fuel or for synthesis of plastics and other useful materials,» said PNNL geochemist and study coauthor Jim Amonette.

The problem is that the transformation of CO2 into biomass, its absorption by the oceans and all the other sinks (except for geologic processes that take a VERY long time) is a storage, not a true transformation.

Up to 9 % of the incoming short wave radiation (400 - 700nm) is incorporated into biomass by photosynthesis, admittedly requiring other nutrients in optimal abundance.

Converting biomass into other chemicals is often costly or inefficient, due to the many production steps needed.

When storms, fires, or other disturbances kill a great number of trees, the dead biomass is decomposed by fungi, insects, and the like, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

And closer study of biomass burning is calling into question the «carbon - neutral» assumption: that growing wood or other biomass captures the same amount of CO2 that subsequent burning for electricity generation releases.

Instead of sending that CO2 back into the atmosphere when the biomass is burned, BECCS facilities capture the emissions and either store them or use them for some other purpose.

This is because the majority of wood processors today recycle their waste wood off cuts either into other products or for biomass, often in replace of fossil fuels.

To date, renewable hydrocarbon - based fuel substitutes have required the complex, multi-step conversion of algal or other agricultural biomass feedstocks into fuel pre-cursors, and subsequent chemical upgrading.

Therefore the production of energy from biomass releases carbon dioxide into the air — unlike the use of other renewable energy sources such as solar or wind.

The main natural sinks are the oceans and plants and other organisms that use photosynthesis to remove carbon from the atmosphere by incorporating it into biomass.

This robotic mower uses an electrically driven bar cutter to mow the grass, instead of the standard rotating blade found in most other mowers, and then feeds the grass into a pelletizer, producing biomass pellets that are used in an onboard gasifier to power the device's engine.

In other words whereas 52 coal fired power stations would meet the average (scenario 2) demand, they will probably need around 200 GW of wind plus PV plus solar thermal plus biomass - gas - electrical generating capacity, when all energy costs and losses are taken into account.

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