Sentences with phrase «uses as biomass»

Novem calculates that if some 0.5 million hectares of agricultural land were turned over to production of such biomass sources of energy, this would meet around 5 per cent of Dutch energy requirements; this would increase to 12 per cent if waste and refuse materials were used as biomass.

What can't be harvested can be used as Biomass fuel and fertilizer

This waste is currently used as biomass, but its calorific value is seven times lower than heating oil.

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

The Waxman - Markey bill that passed through the House last year included language that would ultimately create a market for small - diameter trees, brush and forest slash to be used as biomass fuel.

Not exact matches

Methanol production is also experiencing a global resurgence, particularly in China where the finished product — typically extracted from solid waste / biomass, but also from natural gas and coal feedstocks — is widely used in chemical production and industrial processes, as well as in blended vehicle fuel.

Meanwhile, when used for juicing, around a third of an apple's biomass — known as apple pomace or pulp — remains after the production process finishes, but is currently discarded or used in low - value animal feed or compost.

In SUPERFLOT - BIOGAS ™ systems such as that used by Cayuga, the biomass is separated by means of flotation.

And the biomass boiler provides heat and hot water using by - products from the gin distillation process as a fuel source.

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

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

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

For over one hundred years, the distribution of different sizes of trees in forests has been one of the core attributes recorded by foresters and ecologists world - wide, as it can be used to derive many other structural features, such as biomass and productivity.

This is of particular importance in the northeastern U.S. because of the great potential for the use of biomass as part of a diversified renewable energy portfolio.

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.

All use of biomass — whether for ethanol or electricity — runs the risk of displacing food crops, however, as well as the need for large amounts of water.

«Unquestionably, by providing certainty for the treatment of biomass throughout the agency's permitting decisions, the use of biomass energy will be bolstered, to the benefit not only to the forest products industry but to the environment as well, while furthering the Administration's goal of energy dominance,» he wrote.

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 storm left 5.6 million cubic yards of fallen trees, broken branches and dead greenery in Houston, and Rice's team took first place in the contest with their plan to convert the wood into biomass charcoal, or «biochar,» for use as a CO2 - trapping soil amendment.

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

The NOC's robot - sub, Autosub6000, used seafloor photographs to create the first landscape - scale map of marine snow patches in addition to a map of the abundance of life on the sea - floor (also known as biomass).

Examples of indirect use which require energy harvesting are electricity generation through wind turbines or photovoltaic cells, or production of fuels such as ethanol from biomass.

When high temperatures and the absence of oxygen are used to bring about the decomposition of biomass residue from agricultural products such as grains, the result is a charcoal - rich substance called biochar.

In contrast to other tillage equipment, such as moldboard plows or disc plows, the use of chisel plows was associated with greater microbial biomass.

The land was intended for use as a mill, and the company acknowledged that finalizing the location for a place to transport harvested biomass has been a «major challenge.»

So, enabling C3 crops such as wheat, rice and soy to use C4 pathways could provide similar advantages of less photorespiration, which leads to production of more biomass, yet releases less carbon into the atmosphere.

For instance, the DOE JGI and its partners are sourcing microbial and fungal enzymes for more effective biomass pretreatment with ionic liquids, environmentally benign organic salts often used as green chemistry substitutes for volatile organic solvents.

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.

Also, methane produced in anaerobic biomass digesters is economically important as «one of the few proven, economical, large - scale bioenergy strategies» in use today, they say.

The team analysed evidence such as land use, land suitability and agricultural biomass data to create a robust model that compares different scenarios for 2050, including scenarios based on maintaining current trends.

The team focused on yeast in part because of its important modern - day applications; yeasts are used to convert the sugars of biomass feedstocks into biofuels such as ethanol and industrial chemicals such as lactic acid, or to break down organic pollutants.

In addition to its application as a food oil, palm oil and biomass from the oil palm has applicability as a biofuel, and biodiesel including palm oil methyl ester is in use across the globe.

The use of biomass fuels is expressly recognized in the plan as a means to achieve these targets.

JBEI has established world - class and differentiated expertise in the use of ionic liquids (ILs) as a viable biomass pretreatment solvent and potential game changing conversion technology, but there remain several significant scientific challenges that must be addressed before an affordable IL - based process is commercially viable.

As primary producers, these organisms build up biomass, using light, carbon dioxide and other inorganic substances to photosynthesize.

The US Patent and Trademark Office issued patent Nº 9,217,161 for a process using naturally occurring microorganisms to ferment biomass or gases directly to hydrocarbons such as hexane and octane.

While previous methods used county - level slash data to estimate the amount of wood residue available as a feedstock, the new research reported in the journal Biomass and Bioenergy, uses more refined data on demand from individual sawmills, said Natalie Martinkus, one of the authors of the paper and an assistant professor in WSU's Composite Materials and Engineering Center.

Prior to joining at the DOE JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni was a co-founder and Chief Science Officer at a clean technology start - up, Bio Architecture Lab, Inc. where his significant achievement was using synthetic biology to develop the first microbial platform technologies enabling to unlock the potential of macroalgae as highly environmentally sustainable and cost - effective biomass for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals.

«An Investigation on the Economic Feasibility of Macroalgae as a Potential Feedstock for Biorefineries,» published in in 2015, is among the most downloaded, and «Assessment of Lignocellulosic Biomass Using Analytical Spectroscopy: an Evolution to High - Throughput Techniques,» published in 2014, is among the most cited.

It will focus on catalyst development for four applications: proton exchange membrane fuel cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2, which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.

In the syngas upgrading to hydrocarbon fuels pathway, biomass feedstocks are gasified to produce a syngas (H2 / CO), which is used as a feedstock for hydrocarbon biofuel production.

Black carbon is the term used for sooty particles produced by fossil fuel combustion and come from things such as automobile exhaust and biomass burning.

By doing so, they demonstrated the utility of solar energy for biomass conversion as well as the feasibility of using an oxidative biomass conversion reaction as an anode reaction in a hydrogen - forming PEC.

Researchers at the EBI are searching for more efficient ways to use non-food biomass like cellulose as the starting material for fuel production as well as for ways to boost the concentration of fuel produced and improve on the efficiency of the process.

They then removed areas needed for other uses such as shipping and marine protected areas, and calculated the realistic biomass that could be harvested from each appropriate cell.

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.

«You can use the waste product from the distilling process or any number of other sources of biomass, such as switchgrass or wood pulp.

The process can take as little as 24 hours, and leaves an output that can be used as soil improver, biomass fuel or can be put back through the machine to be reduced to virtually nothing.

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

Lack of fuel wood and use of poor biomass materials as alternative energy sources has aggravated forest destruction.