Instead, small
scale ethanol refineries should be encouraged to use lignin, a cellulosic byproduct, as fuel.
Not exact matches
We had long been working to reveal and oppose large
scale industrial and commercial
scale bioenergy in various forms ranging from
ethanol refineries to soy and palm oil biodiesel to coal plants converting over to burn wood.
They see small -
scale cellulosic
refineries located near switchgrass grown on empty fields, beside pulp paper mill plants, or linked to municipal landfills, producing
ethanol and using leftover biomass for co-generation of heat.
As I said above, I believe this will be the first
ethanol refinery located in Oregon, and certainly the first
refinery on a large
scale.
Two of those projects, at an
ethanol refinery in Decatur, IL and a municipal solid waste incinerator in Oslo, will help demonstrate the concept of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (known as «BECCS» for short), which climate scientists see as a prime candidate for delivering large -
scale carbon removal in the future.
As corn prices have risen,
refineries have
scaled back production, idled dozens of plants and sold
ethanol inventories.