It demonstrates a small scale analytical pyrolyzer turning
wood waste into biochar and bio-oil.
Plenty of people are working on turning
wood waste into ethanol, but Enerkem is doing wood chips, yard waste, and building scraps
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.
BlueFire has already operated such a plant to convert
wood waste into ethanol in Japan to demonstrate the feasibility of the technology.
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.
Not exact matches
An additional 2,400 forest industry jobs processing «usable»
wood waste left behind at logging operations
into forest products;
Chemical engineer Charles Wyman of the University of California, Riverside, argues for biorefineries turning seed oil, the stalks and other detritus of crop plants, and even
wood pulp
waste into an assortment of alternative fuels.
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.
The Obama Administration opened up the throttle on biofuel research today, announcing plans to pour $ 786 million
into new ways to convert corn,
wood, grass, and municipal
waste into fuel for America's cars.
The Earth Island Institute, among other groups concerned about forest loss due to paper consumption, would instead like to see more research
into using agricultural
waste to make paper instead of
wood pulp or bamboo.
One day, she spots what appears to be a color - changing cat (the actual explanation is a cute surprise) and follows it
into the
woods, where she discovers both the Witch's Flower and an abandoned broom — which is conveniently just her size,
wasting no time in whisking her away
into the clouds and off to Endor College.
Setting traps becomes a
waste of time and anytime you get caught, simply run
into the
woods for an instant name clearing.
In addition to
wood processing activities they develop value - added non-timber forest products (NTFPs) and downstream processing of
wood pieces that would otherwise be considered
waste into carvings.
Researchers continue to struggle to develop «second generation» biofuels that they hope will use enzymes to turn cellulose from
wood and crop
waste into ethanol.
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.
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.
They are even tossing biomass,
waste wood products,
into the fire.
Oh, and they take the weight of steel from engineers as a given, but for
wood they add 15 % for lumber yard and site cull, as if there has never been a piece of steel tossed
into a bin on a job site, and another 25 % for mill
waste.
The composting toilet's mechanics are simple: the
waste, via gravity, goes
into a tank where, mixed with
wood chips, it composts.
However, about 2/3 of those pallets only get used a single time, and it's estimated that U.S. companies alone throw away some 4 billion board feet of
wood pallets every year, so putting them back
into use as a building material is a great way to repurpose this «
waste».
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.