Sentences with phrase «use plant biomass»

Providing policy and financial incentives to use plant biomass for energy runs counter to the goal of protecting and regenerating ecosystems and thus threatens to greatly exacerbate global warming rather than mitigate it.

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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.

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

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.

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

In another experiment, bagasse was used as a starting plant biomass for ethanol production without washing / separation processes.

They used biomass, essentially waste from plant materials.

The CHP plant will use biomass, such as wood, for fuel.

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).

Aaron Kreider, a Web developer in Philadelphia who runs a site called the Energy Justice Network, a nonprofit group that supports clean energy and advocates phasing out all nuclear, fossil - fuel, large hydro and biomass plants, said he uses the CARMA data to supplement information on power plants in the United States.

It will take in biomass — the generic term for the leaves, stems and other bits of plants not typically used for food for humans and livestock.

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.

Elizabete Carmo - Silva, LEC lecturer in plant sciences for food security, said: «Both jointed grass and barley are regarded as valuable genetic resources for improving wheat disease resistance, our research suggests that they can also be used to improve biomass production.»

The Escherichia coli (E. coli) is able to tolerate the liquid salt used to break apart plant biomass into sugary polymers.

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.

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

One example isPanda Ethanol, which is building the largest biomass plant in the United Statesin Hereford, Texas, where it will use the waste of 3.5 milliongrazing cattle to fuel the production of approximately 115 million gallons ofethanol per year.

Today a similar panel is reviewing proposed EPA guidelines for how states or businesses can calculate the carbon footprint of power plants using biomass such as wood.

In Oregon, Portland General Electric (PGE) is looking at ways to convert its coal - burning Boardman plant to using biomass by 2020.

Our work focuses on sorghum (a biomass crop in the US) and Arabidopsis (a model plant, which we use for initial experiments).

However, more atmospheric CO2 is predicted to increase crop biomass and subsequent yields, and reduce water use by allowing plant stomates to open over shorter periods, thus assimilating the same amount of atmospheric CO2 while conserving moisture (Cutforth et al. 2007).

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.

However, it is clear that in the world dominated by humans certain ecological «rules,» such as the correlation between large mammal diversity and plant biomass, no longer apply in the same way as they used to do for millions of years.

Second generation bioethanol uses the non-food fibres of the plant (biomass), as well as agricultural waste and forestry residues.

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.

Burning the biomass directly in a power plant and then using the electricity to drive your car is a more efficient solution that is ready today.

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.

Their potential use is limited, though, because plants typically convert less than 1 percent of solar energy into biomass.

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.

Purpose: To convene a small group of experts (~ 8 people) to support the direction, development and provide input on key issues related to sustainability analysis of electricity generation using renewable biomass for the four coal power plants in Ontario (Atikokan, Thunder Bay, Lambton and Nanticoke).

Coal use for power generation fell even more, by at least 4 %, as power plant efficiency improved and gas and biomass displaced coal in thermal power generation.

«Even if we were able to use productive plants such as poplar trees or switchgrass, and store 50 % of the carbon contained in their biomass, in the business - as - usual scenario of continued, unconstrained fossil fuel use, the sheer size of the plantations for staying at or below 2 °C of warming would cause devastating environmental consequences,» Boysen says.

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.

Biomass gasification could be used either to produce electricity (e.g., use biomass instead of coal in a power plant application) or as the first step in a liquid - fuels pBiomass gasification could be used either to produce electricity (e.g., use biomass instead of coal in a power plant application) or as the first step in a liquid - fuels pbiomass instead of coal in a power plant application) or as the first step in a liquid - fuels program.

It is used in power generation, primarily for cooling thermal power plants; in the extraction, transport and processing of fuels; and, increasingly, in irrigation to grow biomass feedstock crops.

The EU could halve its emissions from its power plants by 2050 through the combined use of carbon capturing technologies and burning more biomass, a report has found.

That amount, however, is roughly equivalent to the total amount of biomass people harvest today — all the crops, plant residues, and trees harvested by people for food, timber, and other uses, plus all the grass consumed by livestock around the world.

The plant will gasify waste biomass, and use a Fischer - Tropsch process to convert the resulting syngas to biojet fuel... Read more →

Using plant waste this way means you couldn't simply burn it for fuel, reducing the world's biomass potential; and there are the carbon costs of transporting it and processing it and such like.

The algae is then expected to be harvested and used as biomass fuel in the plant's cement kiln.

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.

Fast curing cement could use biochar or ash from burning biomass, potentially from a biomass power plant.

biomass the total quantity of living matter in a particular habitat; plant and organic waste materials used as fuel and feedstock in place of fossil fuels

Changes in land use are influenced primarily by the demand for cropland and grassland (to supply plant and animal food to the world population) and by the role of biomass energy.

Biomass are plants (like hemp, corn, sugarcane) grown to generate electricity or produce biofuel, plus plant or animal matter used for production of fibers, chemicals, or heat.

Thus, biomass plants raise similar, but not identical, concerns about air emissions and water use as fossil fuel plants.

Transporting biomass is expensive, so it is likely to be used only near existing coal - fired power plants or in plants especially built for biomass.

Dr Hulvey and her team focused on the carbon stored in the above - ground tree biomass (tree trunks and branches), using above - ground biomass as a proxy for carbon storage in planted forests.