Sentences with phrase «waste wood chips»
Heat used in the olive oil production process will come from waste wood chips collected on the property.
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Each day the facility would convert 1,000 tons of wood chips and waste from Georgia's vast pulp and paper industry into 274,000 gallons of ethanol.
Dry farm waste, such as wood chips or sawdust, is easier to use for generating power.
A UD research team has invented a more efficient process for extracting the sugars from wood chips, corn cobs and other organic waste from forests and farms.
«So instead of taking corn and extracting its sugars to make ethanol, we're making use of the stalks and cobs left over after the corn is harvested, as well as other kinds of waste like wood chips and rice hulls.»
From waste materials such as wood chips and corn cobs, UD researchers are extracting sugars that can replace petroleum in the manufacture of thousands of consumer products.
Until then Range Fuels will source its wood chips from whole trees — not a waste product at all, but a commodity used to make paper pulp.
This allows cellulosic materials such as plant stems, wood chips and cardboard waste, as well as other tricky polysaccharides such as insect / crustacean shells, to be broken down.
Speller believes it will be suitable for integrated power stations which at different times of year could burn Miscanthus, wood chips from coppicing, straw or even domestic waste.
«Cost competitive, energy responsible cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass or from forestry waste like sawdust and wood chips requires a more complex refining process but it's worth the investment,» Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said at the Range Fuels facility groundbreaking in November.
Sunitha Sadula, a postdoctoral researcher at UD's Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center, works in the lab to extract sugars from wood chips, corn cobs and other forest and farm waste.
It is a one acre lot with wood chips, fresh water, and dog waste bags.
The remedy, Brinton tells his clients, is to add more oxygen and carbon - based materials like wood chips, sawdust, and yard waste — things urban composters often have trouble getting their hands on.»
KiOR's biorefinery in Columbus, Mississippi started commercial production in March using wood chips to produce cellulosic fuels, and Ineos just announced on July 31 that their Indian River BioEnergy plant in Florida has begun operations to make biofuels from plant waste.
As recently as 1980, imported oil supplied over 90 percent of the heat for these systems, but by 2005 it had been largely replaced by wood chips, urban waste, and lignite.
Under the agreement, Cooper Marine & Timberlands («CMT») will supply BlueFire's Fulton, Mississippi project with all of the feedstock required to produce approximately 19 - million gallons of ethanol per year from locally sourced cellulosic materials such as wood chips, forest residual chips, pre-commercial thinnings and urban wood waste such as construction waste, storm debris, land clearing; or manufactured wood waste from furniture manufacturing.
When it's time to take down that tree, replant or recycle it to avoid the landfill and wasting the organic matter, which can be turned into soil enriching wood chips.
As recently as 1980, imported oil supplied over 90 percent of the heat for these systems, but by 2007 oil had been largely replaced by wood chips and urban waste.
The principal feedstocks will be wood chips, sawmill wood waste, forest harvest residue, and, when available, pecan hulls and peanut shells.
We'd be burning wood chips, switch grass and maybe human waste round the clock (I visited a plant not far from Venice Beach where they burn sewage.)
No venture capitalist is going to build a cellulosic ethanol plant without a market for the ethanol, and a supply of wood chips, switchgrass, waste paper, corn stover....
Plenty of people are working on turning wood waste into ethanol, but Enerkem is doing wood chips, yard waste, and building scraps
Though not yet ready for commercial production, the Indiana - based company says that it has developed a bio-aviation fuel made from landfill waste, sorghum, algae and wood chips which it says will be cheaper to produce and perform better than current aviation fuels.
The composting toilet's mechanics are simple: the waste, via gravity, goes into a tank where, mixed with wood chips, it composts.
The facility will be built on 10 acres near Lancaster, California and is not expected to begin producing ethanol until late 2009, The location was chosen because of the abundant waste that already passes by the location: An estimated 170 tons of wood chips, grass cuttings, and organic waste each day.