Sentences with phrase «using wood biomass»

• Ethanol production using wood biomass required 57 % more fossil energy than the ethanol fuel produced.

Manomet's interest, as study leader, is to advance society's understanding of using wood biomass energy, and not to promote or discourage forest biomass energy.

Characteristically, the facility permits mixed combustion using wood biomass.

Not exact matches

The Party also promises to help the forestry industry by examining a tax credit for the purchasing of machinery for efficiency and environmental performance, streamlining forestry regulations and supporting the development of biomass products that use wood fibre.

And all wood - and biomass - burning stoves were replaced with cleaner, modern stoves that use electricity or natural gas for energy.

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

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.

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.

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.

Amid all this talk of energy demand, the IEA also emphasises another of its estimates: 1.4 billion people across the world lack any access to electricity and 2.7 billion still use wood or other biomass to cook.

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.

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.

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

Around 3 billion people cook and heat their homes using open fires and simple stoves burning biomass (wood, animal dung, and crop waste) and coal.

The new school will generate 10 per cent of its energy requirements using a biomass wood pellet burning boiler to provide heating, and a photovoltaic array to generate additional electricity to the grid.

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

Most carbon life cycle analysis, using published computer simulations, show that the emissions given off by trying to contain fire actually exceed those from the fire itself given in order to influence fire behavior fossil fuels are used to drive logging trucks, operate machinery, air tankers, and transport wood products, including biomass to fuels.

Therefore they substantially reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions through the reduced amount of fuel wood use from non-renewable biomass.

Almost three billion people use primitive stoves to burn biomass — wood, charcoal, and animal dung — thereby releasing dense black soot into their homes and the environment.»

(c) Prohibit the use of conventional / traditional biomass in inefficient wood stoves in developing countries and instead move to highly - efficient biomass woodstoves and biogas digesters, and other renewable energy sources.

The American Lung Association recognizes that pollution from the combustion of wood and other biomass sources poses a significant threat to human health, and supports measures to transition away from using these products for heat production.

Biomass Heating Systems Are a Proven Technology — One That Has Been in Use for Thousands of Years since humans began burning wood to cook and keep warm.

This is important context for the thorny question of whether, and how, carbon emissions from burning bioenergy — renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological sources (a category that includes both biofuels like ethanol and biomass like wood used to generate electricity)-- should be included in prospective carbon taxes.

Non-OECD countries consume around 3/4 of all renewables, reflecting the use of solid biomass (e.g. wood) by households.

In June of 2010, Manomet and its partners released the results of a six - month study to better understand the implications of using wood for energy in Massachusetts, titled «Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study.»

This type of forest has large volumes of biomass that can not be used by traditional wood - processing industries, which represent a potential source for energy generation.

Applications shall primarily focus on the use of US sub-bituminous coal, lignite and / or coal - wood mixtures (up to 20 % woody biomass [e.g. poplar, pine and hardwoods]-RRB-.

Most forest biomass used for energy in these countries is recovered from indirect sources, including black liquor from wood pulping and other wood residues (Steierer et al., 2007).

«Energy outputs from ethanol produced using corn, switchgrass, and wood biomass were each less than the respective fossil energy inputs.

Booth says there is wide agreement in the industry that when biomass comes from forestry residues, wood products manufacturing, or agriculture, the net carbon impact is the difference between emissions from the use of the material as fuel and emissions from some other fate, such as leaving it on the ground to decompose.

Its contribution to final energy demand is five times higher than wind and solar PV combined, even when inefficient and unsustainable traditional biomass, such as the use of wood and dung for cooking, is excluded.

The project reduces GHG emissions associated with the consumption of biomass for wood fuel traditionally used to boil drinking water.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration includes the following in U.S. primary energy production: coal production, waste coal supplied, and coal refuse recovery; crude oil and lease condensate production; natural gas plant liquids production; dry natural gas excluding supplemental gaseous fuels production; nuclear electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the nuclear plant heat rates); conventional hydroelectricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); geothermal electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and geothermal heat pump energy and geothermal direct use energy; solar thermal and photovoltaic electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and solar thermal direct use energy; wind electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); wood and wood - derived fuels consumption; biomass waste consumption; and biofuels feedstock.

Burning of biomass such as wood and straw also emits CO2; however, unless there has been a change in land use, it is considered that CO2 emitted from biomass is removed from the air by new growth, and therefore it should not included in the total for CO2.

Densified biomass fuel: Raw biomass, primarily wood, that has been condensed into a homogenously sized, energy - dense product, such as wood pellets, intended for use as fuel.

Much of the proposed biomass use comes from plant residues from agriculture and food processing, sawdust and residues from forestry and wood processing, manure, and municipal waste.

The five renewable sources used most often are: biomass (such as wood and biogas), the movement of water, geothermal (heat from within the earth), wind, and solar.

For example, methane is emitted from rice fields, which are of course wetlands, and methane is emitted from biomass burning, either from burning of forest areas for cultivation or the use of wood in furnaces.

According to the company, the VOTO is designed to be powered by burning charcoal, but can also use wood or other varieties of biomass that are used for cooking in the developing world.

The European demand for wood pellets is driven by an EU policy that deems biomass use to be carbon - neutral.

Around 3 billion people cook using polluting open fires or simple stoves fuelled by kerosene, biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal.