Sentences with phrase «wood biomass into»

Their most innovated technology is turning wood biomass into a high - value liquid product.

They can turn about 75 percent of wood biomass into fuel.

The process, which Morihara compares to roasting coffee beans, turns wood biomass into briquettes that are a clean replacement for coal.

Not exact matches

With the help of government subsidies, companies are investing in converting wood fibre (known as biomass) into ethanol and diesel.

After poring over the literature, Mendum and Njenga reported that little previous empirical research into wood burning in sub-Saharan Africa has been conducted, so policy makers have scant data to guide them in formulating best practices for sustainable biomass production and consumption.

«By extracting wood from unmanaged forest and bringing these forests under production, humans released carbon into the atmosphere that would otherwise be stored in the biomass, litter, dead wood, and soil of the forest,» Naudts said.

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.

«Learning about how termites convert wood and other biomass into sugars may be applicable to the production of sustainable biofuels,» Professor Lo concluded.

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.»

And closer study of biomass burning is calling into question the «carbon - neutral» assumption: that growing wood or other biomass captures the same amount of CO2 that subsequent burning for electricity generation releases.

Burning wood biomass immediately releases carbon dioxide into the air.

This is because the majority of wood processors today recycle their waste wood off cuts either into other products or for biomass, often in replace of fossil fuels.

These «biorefineries» will convert widely available, inexpensive, organic materials such as agricultural residues, high - content biomass crops, wood residues, and cellulose in municipal solid wastes into ethanol.

In particular, she evaluates whether generating energy via the burning of wood pellets, or biomass, puts less carbon into the atmosphere than burning coal.

In recent years, the production of ethanol — a proven vehicle fuel — from cellulosic biomass, such as cereal straw or wood, has moved into the commercial demonstration phase.

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.

Burning wood, trash or pellets releases particulates and carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere and often strains local supplies of sustainably harvested biomass while robbing the soil of much - needed nutrient recycling.

They are even tossing biomass, waste wood products, into the fire.

This can happen naturally, as growing trees and plants turn CO2 into biomass (wood, leaves, and so on).

These «biorefineries» will convert widely available, inexpensive, organic materials such as agricultural residues, high - content biomass crops, wood residues, and cellulose in municipal solid wastes into valuable and renewable end products.