Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'biomass'
ST1 has a plan for decentralised ethanol production
ST1 has an animation about its plans for decentralised ethanol production integrated with the existing gasoline distribution network. Looks interesting. Thanks to Hugh Baker...
The good, the bad, the ugly 2008/2009
The best piece of work on Biofuels 2008? For me that was the The Gallagher Review of the indirect effects of biofuels production. If you're a serious player in this market, you should read that report. Worst technology to...
China expects to make 5m tonne ethanol by 2010
According to the Huaxlee website, China expects to make 5 m tonne ethanol by 2010, in a post quoting from the China Daily. It will be fueling the need wtih biomass. This blog has noted before that China has looked...
UK buries biomass will miss target
The UK is not doing enough to turn waste biomass into fuel, says the Guardian. Key passage:"Of an estimated 7.5m tonnes of domestic wood waste, much from construction and demolition, some 80% goes to landfill. Only some 4% becomes sustainable...
Fischer-Tropsch online resource
I've just come across a resource on line for people who are interested in gas to liquids technology developed by Fischer and Tropsch . You might like it if you're into pyrolysis as a first step to produce gas from...
Biomass could get tight from 2030
Researchers In Denmark have been looking hard at the amount of biomass that will be available for biofuels after 2030 is going to become tight. This is what they say in a peer-reviewed paper in Environment Science Technology, produced by...
EU consults on sustainability on using biomass
If you've not contributed to the EU consultation on new and renewable energy then you should. Hat tip to GAVE....
Vinod Kohlsa's latest thoughts on biofuels
Now Mr K likes cellulosic biofuels and biomass....
Burning biomass with coal
Burning biomass with coal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions at power plants could yeild enviornmental benefits. It at least has the benefit of using minimal energy to process the biomass before burning. According to Earth2Tech blog A Polish coal plant,...
Syntic buys catalyst technology to convert biomass to ethanol
I came across this over on Envirofuel, a company called Syntic Biofuel has got hold of some catalyst technology to convert biomass into ethanol at a cost of around US 37 cents when operating at This is the kind of...
The power of left-over food in Japan
The power wasted in left-over food is outlined in this story on Far East Gizmos, a number of Tokyo's schools will be using waste food to generate power... Perhaps we could do the same with waste from supermarkets over the...
More on Dyanmotive's fast pyrolysis process
There's more detail on Dyanmotive's fast pyrolysis process on Environmental Resarch web. This is fast pyrolysis which is pretty much a continuous process, by the looks of things. The plant in Guelph will process 66,000 dry tonnes of biomass each...
Dynamotive gets equity boost
Canada's Dynamotive has been given an extra $10m from equity investors to help the business grow. The firm is working towards biomass to fuel/power plants in Argentina....
Hydrothermal cabonization
Hydrothermal cabonization is an approach to convert almost any kind of biomas into fuel. Biopact has written about hydrothermal carbonization and there's quite a bit about it on the web. Here are some carbonization links that might be useful. Please...
China has a lot of biomass
China has a lot of biomass, it is estimated that the total amount of biomass resource is up to 5.2x108 tons of oil equivalent (TOE), according to a paper published on research and development in biomass energy in China. The...
Food, waste food and biofuels
Are biofuels going to be a drain on world food resources? Not necessarily was the message at the All Party Parliamentary Renewable Transport Fuels Group meeting held in London yesterday.One of the arguments put forward is that there is...
David Fridley pours some cold water on biofuels
Lawrence-Berkeley Lab scientist and energy expert David Fridley talks about the reality of biofuels as an alternative energy fuel. He explains inherent cost and production problems with ethanol and similar biofuels. He also makes some good points about linking the...
Some economics on wood as biofuel
I've come across some economics about using wood biomas as energy on a US forest products document. The document by the USDA's Forest Products Laboratories pretty pro wood, but that said, the economics of using wood to generate energy seem...
Lets talk trees
Lets talk trees for a bit. There is a growing realisation that diverting corn or other food sources into fuel is likely to have severe impacts on the world's ability to feed itself, or at least that the price of food...
Biomass gassification
One way of using renewable fuels for energy production does not necessarily involve converting materials into liquid fuels by fermentation or wet chemistry. Instead biomass can be heated up and the gasses which come off can be burnt themselves... This...
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