Sentences with phrase «produce biomass»

According to GigaOm, a model for consumer use has a bigger financial risk element than a commercial model, so EcoMow is now focusing on a larger version that could harvest big fields to produce biomass fuel pellets as a salable product.

Using a general stylized forest sector management model, our study examines the economic potential of traditional industrial forests and supplemental dedicated fuelwood plantations to produce biomass on submarginal lands.

A better title would have been: «Fueled: The Effects of Using Food for Fuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and fuel.

Study led by researchers from the CNRS, the University Grenoble Alpes, found out that atmospheric CO2 levels fluctuate seasonally as vegetation takes up the gas through leaves to produce biomass.

«Our simulations show that species - rich ecosystems produce biomass at a relatively stable, predictable level.

«The great feeding - frenzy: Species - rich food webs produce biomass more efficiently.»

«You are growing wood or grasses in a renewable way in some sort of energy plantation to produce biomass,» he says.

An architecture student laid out the floor plans for a home with an area dedicated to growing algae to fuel an in - house energy - producing biomass reactor.

(2) deployment of renewable electricity generation from wind, solar, sustainably produced biomass, geothermal, marine, or hydrokinetic sources;

High - productivity plantations, efficient harvesting and good logistics are fundamental in producing biomass at costs that allow for competitively priced energy generation.

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.

``... Mitigation options by the forestry sector include extending carbon retention in harvested wood products, product substitution, and producing biomass for bioenergy.

Not exact matches

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.

Furthermore, bioplastics would decrease our national carbon footprint even more since the biomass used to produce the plastic sequesters carbon dioxide.

The new boiler will produce energy out of biomass, reducing CO ₂ emissions at the Nettingsdorf mill by 40,000 tonnes, which represents a 1.5 % reduction in Smurfit Kappa Group's total CO ₂ emissions.

Biomass is a term that covers different types of organic material that can be processed and burned to produce energy, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, and can include materials like wood chips, agricultural crops, and sewage.

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.

The city - owned utility has invested in and jointly runs some of the renewable energy facilities, such as the McNeil Generating Station, a biomass plant located near the city capable of producing more than 50 MW of power.

For one, Burlington, Vt. — a city of 42,000 residents and the largest town in the state — produces more power than it uses from biomass, wind, solar and hydropower.

Hydrogen can be combined with carbon from agricultural biomass to produce fuel, fertilizer and other products.

The adapted cultures produced even more new biomass and about twice as many calcite platelets than the control group under the high temperatures.

Clarens» team found algae produce four to five times more biomass energy per hectare than conventional crops.

Initiated in 2009, CCEI has focused on transformational catalytic technology to produce renewable chemicals and biofuels from natural biomass sources.

The human species, therefore, whilst comprising only half of 1 per cent of the global animal biomass, consumes a significant fraction of everything the Earth produces.

«We can do this while simultaneously producing from the biomass lignin - free cellulose, which is the basis of ethanol and other liquid fuels.

«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.»

A third route, known as pyrolysis, heats dried and ground biomass to about 550 ˚C in an oxygen - depleted chamber (so the biomass doesn't burn), producing a mixture of gases, liquids, and a gray, carbon - rich solid called coke.

«Both methane and ethane are produced in biomass burning, but perc is an industrial solvent.

During its largest runs, the biomass simulation scaled to nearly 4,000 of Titan's 18,666 nodes, producing roughly 45 nanoseconds of simulation time in one day.

A new biofuels project at Abu Dhabi's Masdar Institute of Science and Technology will search for a system to produce fuel from biomass and seawater

«We have a billion tons of biomass that go unutilized in the U.S. on an annual basis, and if we could turn that into fuel, we could roughly produce a third of the need in the U.S.,» Keasling says.

«This happens because the presence of microbial cheaters ultimately reduces the total amount of enzymes produced by the microbial community, while the total amount of microbial biomass stays about the same» explains University of Vienna ecologist and IIASA guest researcher Christina Kaiser, who led the study.

That leads to more microbial biomass being produced compared to the amount of dead plant material — which contributes to the build - up of organic material in the soil.»

«What would happen if all the perennials die off or produce less biomass one year because of an early warm spell?

Although the past decade has seen a shift toward using such waste, referred to as lignocellulosic biomass, to create chemicals for producing biodegradable plastics, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and biofuels, biorefineries have struggled with finding steady supplies and with high processing costs.

«We found that with a given amount of biomass you could produce more transportation and greenhouse gas offsets with electricity than with ethanol.»

The plant may not have enough oomph to produce new shoots later in spring, affecting biomass yield in agronomic settings or competitive ability in natural plant communities.

Processing the biomass for energy use (converting trees into wood pellets, for instance) and shipping it overseas only adds to the total emissions produced by the industry, he noted.

But scientists have been expressing concern for years about the emissions produced by burning biomass.

The microalgae biomass market currently generates almost 10,000 tons of dry material yearly, producing a turnover of approximately 1,500 million euros per year on a worldwide level.

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).

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 writing about the use of second - generation biomass, such as plant waste and paper, to produce biofuels, Helen Knight did...

At this facility, AVA Biochem produces 5 -(hydroxymethyl) furfural from biomass.

«Their silent but vast and ongoing war underpins everything from how global nutrient cycles — which rely on bacteria to produce half of Earth's biomass — operate, to how human pathogens evolve,» he says.

«But when the goal is to decarbonize, we'll need a lot of energy to produce aluminum for the solar cells, cast iron for the windmills, and the fertilizers for biomass.

To date, models have shown that «the only economically viable way to produce the large amount of biomass required to supplant a large portion of our fossil - fuel needs requires an open - pond system,» Hildebrand says.

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.

They compared the production, combustion and gas emissions of biochar, which is produced by slow heating of the biomass at a temperature of 450 °C (842 °F) in an oxygen - free furnace with hydrochar.

As with any biomass fuel, any carbon dioxide produced when the reed is burnt was extracted from the air when it grew, so producing and burning it does not add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.