Sentences with phrase «wood waste»

Gevo, Inc., a NARA partner, successfully adapted its patented technologies to convert cellulosic sugars derived from wood waste into renewable isobutanol, which was then converted into Gevo's Alcohol - to - Jet (ATJ) fuel.

Plenty of people are working on turning wood waste into ethanol, but Enerkem is doing wood chips, yard waste, and building scraps

Here's an article on one of the small projects replacing diesel with wood waste gasification.

Read sustainable packaging news including PHB packaging advances, ecodesign principles, mulch from recycled wood waste, refillable glass wine bottles and more.

Nearly one - fifth of the carbon dioxide emissions caused by humans can be traced back to wildfires, slash - and - burn agriculture and the burning of wood waste to produce power, a Stanford University report found.

Other technologies include power boilers which burn wood wastes from sawmills to generate electricity and gasification, which is the process of heating wood residues to a very high temperature to produce gas that can in turn be burned very efficiently to produce heat and power.

This category includes some level of forest and agriculture residues left behind after harvest (some need to remain on the ground to maintain soil fertility); timber processing wastes including sawdust and «black liquor;» and any unused manure, urban wood waste, municipal organic waste, and landfill methane.

That gas is burned to create heat and electricity, or is refined as a fuel for cars... Kristianstad also burns gas emanating from an old landfill and sewage ponds, as well as wood waste from flooring factories and tree prunings.

BlueFire has already operated such a plant to convert wood waste into ethanol in Japan to demonstrate the feasibility of the technology.

The first to be built will be the Range Fuels Biorefinery in Soperton, Ga., which will process wood waste from the timber industry into biofuels and chemicals.

Any other wood waste is put through our briquette maker.»

It demonstrates a small scale analytical pyrolyzer turning wood waste into biochar and bio-oil.

The Renewable Energy Target now includes wood waste from forestry.

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a novel new method to recycle wood waste by incorporating it into cement and mortar mixtures, making the resulting materials both stronger and more watertight.

An additional 2,400 forest industry jobs processing «usable» wood waste left behind at logging operations into forest products;

If the government eventually goes through with banning wood waste from landfill, we'll need to find something to do with all our waste beams, boards, panels and rafters.

The ELS is a single - face metal detector of welded construction that is installed under pan conveyors or chutes to inspect wood waste, preferably with low product stream heights.

The advisor had a client who was trying to commercialize the production of western red cedar wood oil from cedar wood waste.

«Hitler flew Messerschmitts on it,» says William Anderson, assistant secretary of the U.S. Air Force for installations, environment and logistics, about such Fischer - Tropsch synthetic fuel, which can be made from methane, coal, plant oils — even wood waste.

However companies seem to interpret used wood» as meaning all wood that has already been used once (Murer 2015), which also includes problematic wood waste and bulky waste wood.

Nearly 1 million tonnes of used wood (1), i.e. wood accumulated on construction or demolition sites, arising from building renovations or conversions or in the form of packaging or crushed wood waste, were produced in Switzerland in 2014.

Three soil management treatments were maintained throughout the experiment: an unamended control, a 10 - cm wood waste mulch treatment, and an annual fertigated application of 20 g of phosphorus (as ammonium polyphosphate) per tree at full bloom.

The team adopted the renewable fuel made from wood waste after last year's Sebring race, and used E85R throughout the remainder of the 2008 ALMS season.

The fuel used by the Corvette race cars is primarily cellulosic ethanol, made from wood waste collected in the Black Hills National Forest as part of a wildfire prevention program.

@rdb The old Strand / Benford paper relies on evidence, presumptively sound, that current communities of bugs and larger critters on the ocean abyssal plains are not very good at digesting bales of terrestrial crop and wood waste dumped on them to their surprise.

The Fulton, Miss. project will allow BlueFire to use green and wood wastes available in the region as feedstock for the ethanol plant, which is designed to produce approximately 19 - million gallons of ethanol per year.

Even based on the false assumption that only wood waste, not whole trees, are being burnt, Booth found that «up to 95 percent of cumulative CO2 emitted [by the biomass burning power plants] represent a net addition to the atmosphere over decades.»

Since hurds compete with wood waste materials, this market is currently less profitable than that for animal bedding.

There will be systems to reuse waste heat, irrigate with captured rainwater, and compost wood waste.

As this clip from Geoff Lawton's Urban Permaculture DVD shows, rocket stoves work best on thin bits of wood, which makes them ideal for utilizing scrap wood waste and / or tree prunings and coppiced wood.

In the Northwest, biomass electricity is primarily created by the controlled burning of wood waste that otherwise would be dumped in landfills, burned in open air or left to decompose.

Given the potential benefits, Congress has provided $ 10 million in funding — and the DOE has asked for $ 30 million more — to develop a second facility employing the process, as well as millions more for similar cellulosic biorefineries, such as the Range Fuels plant in Soperton, Ga., that converts wood waste into fuel.

Most are made from compressed sawdust and other wood waste, though some stoves can also take wood, recycled paper waste, and biomass pellets.»

They built a 55MW power plant burning wood waste and BC Hydro buys power from them at subsidized rates.

The company ReEnergy said it would make Fort Drum energy independent by producing low - cost, clean power with wood waste.

BRASELTON, Ga. — Powered by cellulosic E85R ethanol racing fuel made primarily from wood waste and armed with a variety of energy - saving technologies, Corvette Racing is aiming for an overall victory in the inaugural American Le Mans Series Green Challenge.

B.C. prides itself on generating only renewable power (mostly hydro and wood waste), but that doesn't mean when you turn on a light you aren't contributing to climate change.

«Lignocellulose from wood waste or straw is the world's most common renewable raw material but, due to its complex structure, it is significantly more difficult to exploit than starch» explains Prof. Robert Mach from the Institute of Chemical Engineering at Vienna University of Technology.

The amount of biomass available from corn and food crops is very small; for biofuels to have a large impact, we must harness energy from nonedible plants, also known as cellulosic biomass — wood and wood waste, agricultural waste, and energy crops.

Commodity: Different energy commodities; solid fuels (for example coal and coke), liquid fuels (diesel oil, petrol, kerosene, heavy oil etc.), gases (natural gas, landfill gas etc.), biofuel (for instance fuel wood, wood waste, pellets) and waste (hazardous waste and other waste).

Among the newly funded projects are the development of lithium - ion battery packs for hybrid vehicles, a continuously variable transmission (CVT) for heavy - duty applications; the retrofitting of hydrogen - based diesel engine emissions reduction systems; demonstrating a process for the reforming of bio-feedstocks such as glycerol to hydrogen; and demonstrating a process for producing cellulosic ethanol from wood waste.