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.
Not exact matches
A wide range of resources will be made
available on the website including food
waste, food for redistribution, industrial organic by - products, agricultural
wastes, biodiesel and bioethanol residues, sewage and industrial sludge and
wood.
Even if fuels from agricultural
waste,
wood, grasses and household trash are the greenest transportation option
available, manufacturers have yet to produce them with any commercial success.
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.
The principal feedstocks will be
wood chips, sawmill
wood waste, forest harvest residue, and, when
available, pecan hulls and peanut shells.
These include making renewable energy carriers
available on - site by using more electricity and district heating instead of fossil fuels for processes, using more environmentally - friendly materials for lower emissions in production (e.g. recycled steel, and solid
wood), better thinking around transport of surplus masses (soil / rock / gravel), and improved
waste management and recycling.
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.
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.