Sentences with phrase «plant biomass with»

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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.

(263) Biodegradable is defined in the standard as «capable of microbial decomposition within 24 months in soil (with the exception of plant biomass), one month in aerated water, two months in anaerobic water, with minimal impact on the environment» (see 3.10 in CAN / CGSB -32.310).

By late June, the organic fields had 50 to 70 percent more species of wild plants than the conventional fields, with significantly more weeds and biomass.

With these experimental results, it is shown that, using the carboxylate - type liquid zwitterion, plant biomass could be converted into ethanol in a single reaction pot without washing / separation processes.

Grace Kipesa, a local resident who plans to supply biomass to the plant, told Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper last year that the onetime nuisance species has become «a blessing» because «it is now enabling us to pay school fees and settle bills with ease, while our villages get lit up.»

Power plants around the world are burning biomass for energy, either alone or together with fossil fuels.

The company formed a joint venture with Duke Energy, ADAGE, to build and operate biomass power plants in the U.S..

As productivity continues to increase, as in boreal forests, plant biomass (the total mass of living matter of a particular type) increases, herbivore biomass increases, and ecosystems become capable of sustaining a third trophic level — the predators — with this level controlling herbivores.

Our study shows that treating the poor soil with torrefied biomass improves a variety of factors that ultimately lead to greater plant growth.»

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.

Water retention and structural integrity, along with metabolites, the microbiome, ion absorption, and plant growth were all improved with the addition of torrefied biomass.

The results are surprising, for even in the presence of many different herbivorous animals, plants produced the same amount of biomass as in simulations with a low diversity of herbivore species.

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.

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.

Tropical forest restoration: fast resilience of plant biomass contrasts with slow recovery of stable soil C stocks.

Supplementing with Non-Glycoside Hydrolase Proteins Enhances Enzymatic Deconstruction of Plant Biomass, Xiaoyun Su, Jing Zhang, Roderick I. Mackie, and Isaac K. O. Cann, PLos One, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043828, Sept. 7, 2012.

Research in this program involves work with plants, fungi, and bacteria and is focused on four key areas: feedstock development, biomass depolymerization, biofuels production, and waste management.

«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.

Based on 14,000 fossils, the scientists reconstructed the diversity of terrestrial large mammals and compared it with data on the biomass production of plants during the same time period.

«It's similar to a plant leaf that converts carbon dioxide and water with sunlight into sugar molecules and biomass, but it's a nonbiological engineered system.»

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.

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

There's the Halid, your workhorse throughout the game: a plant with moderate biomass and the ability to produce a profusion of seeds.

There are little scurrying creatures, which reproduce after eating Halid seeds; individually their biomass is trivial, but if you can fill a room with them... There are plants that offer high biomass, but that kill other organisms.

The work as I understand it, (I have little contact it, and my closest colleague in biofuels, Prof Alex Farrell, met an unexpected death last month) makes quite ao constrast with the Exxon $ $ to Stanford, as the BP funds really hope to pry loose a way to mimic the way plants or termites or other organisms make sugars and alcohols or another form of usable biomass WITHOUT disrupting food, land water etc..

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.

«An unknown amount of wood will be required for co-firing in coal plants, with estimates for Ohio alone, where the State's Public Utilities Commission has approved over 2,100 MW of biomass power, of about 20 million tons of wood required for fuel annually»

As with plants this means more photosynthesis it means more biomass production and a higher CO2 uptake.

It also emits more CO2 than coal plants and to this writer it seems strange that the UK will look to North and South America to supply them with biomass fuel that requires processing and shipment thousands of miles, when they (Drax) could use locally mined coal to generate power.

APS has purchased power contracts for the following: 310 MW solar (primarily from 280 MW Solana Concentrating Solar Power plant in Gila Bend), 289 MW wind, 10 MW geothermal, 14 MW biomass, 6 MW biogas, 60 MW non-disclosed «inter-utility» plus 480 MW with PacifiCorp, 25 MW Demand Response and others (see slide 39).

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.

With $ 75,000 in grant money from the state of Maryland, he's just completed a feasibility study for building Thurmont a 30 - megawatt biomass power plant.

changes in plant canopy caused by shifts in plant biomass production associated with moisture regime;

Expressed in financial terms, the health costs linked to biomass burning for power generation run into billions of euros each year, with health costs associated with emissions from former coal and co-fired plants amounting to 137,000 euros per year on average for every megawatt of electrical capacity installed.

Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72

Investors need to consider whether forest planting and management for biomass is compatible with the forest industries currently operating in developing countries, especially the less developed ones.

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.

Combined with a specific enzyme, the energy of sunlight can break down plant biomass.

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.

And as has been conclusively demonstrated in literally thousands of scientific studies, the more CO2 we put into the air, the better plants grow, producing greater amounts of biomass and becoming more efficient at using water, and better able to cope with environmental stresses such as pollution and high temperatures.

Instead, carbon sequestered from the atmosphere by plants and stored in biomass has value because it provides humanity with at least one key service: mitigation of damaging climate change.

The plans included a new renewable energy electricity generation and transmissions infrastructure with large wind turbines, half a square kilometre of rooftop solar panels, and a biomass plant burning coconut husks.

It was announced that in September 2010 PGE teamed with researchers from Washington and Oregon to study how a fast - growing grass known as Arundo Donax could serve as fuel for the utility's controversial coal - fired power plant in Boardman, if the plant ended up being converted to biomass.

With nearly 40 % of those investments — $ 199 billion — going to solar, wind farms, biomass, waste - to - energy plants and small hydro - power clean energy projects, it is evident that energy system «diversity» is vital for satisfying current community needs and to address shared concerns for the future.

BECCS, which combines bio-energy production (biomass fuel - power stations, pulp mills and bio-fuel plants) with carbon capture and storage technology, has the potential to generate «negative emissions» that could help society avoid exceeding critical thresholds in this century and beyond.

Increasingly, biomass CHP plants with capacities ranging from a few MW up to 350 MW are also coming online.

Small - and medium - sized CHP plants are usually sourced with locally available biomass.

It becomes an integrated CCGT when the fuel is syngas from a coal or biomass gasification reactor with exchange of energy flows between the gasification and CCGT plants.

(2) This means the total NH photosynthesizing biomass has a higher proportion of land plants which interact directly with atmospheric CO2 and hence the bulk C12 - C13 - C14 fractionation process is more characteristic of land plants and more susceptible to both the annual land cycle of air / soil temperatures and short term differences in the input to the atmosphere of C - 13 and C - 14 by anthropogenic sources.

It said that «biomass and land use change can be identified as key drivers» in the predicted decline, with pellet - burning plants clearly playing a large part.