Biomass

By Joanna Schroeder New North, Inc. has recently released Phase 2 of a study on the feasibility of cellulosic ethanol plant in Niagara, an area in Northeast Wisconsin. Phase 2 demonstrates the availability of feedstocks to the plant, primarily wood resources, should the plant be able to produce ethanol usin...

By Michelle Kautz The front-end fermentation unit scales up production of the naturally occurring bacteria, called an acetogen, which ZeaChem uses in its fermentation process. Acetogens are highly robust and, unlike yeast, produce no carbon dioxide (CO2) during the fermentation process, allowing Z...

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A project by Ceres to increase biomass yields of several energy grasses has attracted a $5 million advanced research grant form the US Department of Energy. Commenting at the announcement of the award yesterday (10th November) Ceres chief scientific officer Richard Flavell said; “Low...

Joule Biotechnologies Inc. at an industry event in Hawaii said that in its development of renewable fuels, it has achieved direct microbial conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy. Joule is advancing a new, photosynthesi...

By Chuck Zimmerman AGCO is one of the companies working on a prototype biomass harvest/transport system. At POET’s Project LIBERTY Field Day they demonstrated a pulled behind baler system to harvest corn cobs and stover. Dean Morrell, Product Marketing Manager for Hay and Forage Harvesting, was on site an...

By Mike Millikin Food vs. Fuel. The Company converts residual biomass from agricultural and forestry and/or dedicated non-food crops through a thermochemical process into BioOil and Biochar. BioOil and Biochar plants can coexist with existing forestry and agricultural facilities, providing an addi...

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By Mike Millikin Schematic diagram of the fluidized-bed system for fast pyrolysis of biomass. Credit: ACS, Zhang et al. 2009. Click to enlarge.The conversion of biomass into bio-oil using fast pyrolysis technology is a promising alternative to convert biomass into liquid products—either for direct use...

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By Chuck Zimmerman One of my stops in their building included the Florida Center for Renewable Chemicals & Fuels. On hand to tell their story and give us an update on their activities was Sheilachu P. Gomez, Assistant Director, pictured here. She says the Center is primarily for the development of the tech...

By Mike Millikin At the core of Cyclone’s current biomass-to-power system for the proof-of-concept EATR is the patent-pending WHE, a six-cylinder Rankine cycle external heat engine capable of generating up to 15 hp of mechanical power. An attached vegetative biomass combustion chamber produces up t...

London, October , 20, 2009 Metso Corporation's company release on October 20, 2009 at 09:00 a.m. Metso will supply Affärsverken i Karlskrona AB with a biomass boiler plant for combined heat and power production (CHP) in the municipality of Karlskrona, Sweden. The boiler plant including s...

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For a decade, Europe has been supporting biomass thermal energy, creating a large commercial and industrial market for resources like wood pellets. Here in the U.S., support has been absent; therefore, wood pellets play only a niche role in residential applications. In this podcast, we'l...

While algal biomass as a potential renewable energy source has been studied for decades, only recently has it received the type of intensive R&D and investment needed to translate that potential into reality. As some readers of RenewableEnergyWorld.com may know, algal biomass has...

Will the mountains of coal at the Point Aconi generating station be replaced one day by mountains of wood biomass? ...

There is a big difference between that and burning coal which is carbon sequestered by nature over millions of years. Biomass power is a quick, ... Opponents of Somerset power plant coal gasification to deliver ...Fall River Herald News all 3 news articles »

A Tacoma plant that generates power by using wood waste products recovered from the paper pulping process has started generating commercial power. ... and more »

By Mike Millikin “Energy crops like switchgrass are the only scalable, carbon-negative sources for transportation fuels in the EPA analysis,” Hamilton said, meaning that more carbon is sequestered from the atmosphere than is released in the lifecycle of producing and burning the fuel. “That’s a bene...

 United States If ever there were unknown environmental impacts, it's from biomass. Biomass facilities burn trees. Biomass devotees endlessly chant, "We're carbon-neutral," hoping to lull the masses into a deep trance where they'll hear instead, ...

Scientific American  MA Findings show that turning biomass into electricity is more beneficial than turning it into transportation fuels. By Tyler Hamilton A study published today in Science concludes that, on average, using biomass to produce electricity is 80 percent more ...

By Mike Millikin Diesel Brewing’s process gasifies wood wastes, agricultural residues and manure into a syngas that is cleaned and fed into a catalytic reactor and purification system to generate a suite of alcohols containing butanol, ethanol and methanol.

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By Cindy Zimmerman The drive toward higher blends of ethanol in gasoline is accelerating and the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) is working to ensure that the blend wall is just another bump in the road for ethanol to ride over. You can listen to “The Ethanol Report” on-line here:

 ID Lafayette is back! Areva has formed a joint venture with Duke Energy called Adage to develop wood waste biomass power plants. Adage is planning to have 12 biomass plants in construction or operating in the United States within the next five years. ...

By Staff Writer The approval will see the installation of a GreenSwitch biomass-fueled combined heat and power (CHP) plant at The Combination of Rothes ... Helius Energy gets permission for Rothes renewable energy project SmallCapNews.co.uk

By Mike Millikin Given the efficiencies of a typical Fischer-Tropsch process, Bio-Syntrolysis would thus convert about 90% of the carbon in biomass to liquid synthetic fuel, INL says. By comparison, INL notes, conventional biomass or coal gasification to liquid fuels converts only ~35% of the carbon...

 WI - They add that it will also reduce net carbon dioxide emissions. "By converting biomass to gas, the resulting fuel is much cleaner and has far fewer ... Innovative Biomass Energy Project to Begin Regulatory Review ... Your Renewable News (press release) all 8 news articles

 Canada - By JUDY MYRDEN Business Reporter Nova Scotia Power made an appeal Friday to the forest and agriculture industry to use biomass waste to generate electricity ...

 Germany - Currently, two of the three operating units at Bay Front use biomass as their primary fuel to generate electricity. In 1979, the facility became the first ... Xcel Energy plant to expand its power St. Cloud Times all 10 news articles

Is it the calm after the crude oil storm, or the eye of the petroleum market hurricane? Whatever it is, the great recession of 2008 has put the brakes on U.S. oil use. And if America learns from the $140 a barrel crude oil experience, it bodes well for our future. That's the bottom line of the 2009 en...

By Mike Millikin For their global overall estimations for transportation fuels, the two used the conversion of the lignocellulosic biomass to biooil (“bioslurry”) via pyrolysis and its subsequent gasification to a syngas followed by Fischer–Tropsch synthesis (biomass-to-liquids, BTL).

By David Adam Support for renewable energy technology to fight global warming is weakening in the face of worldwide economic problems and the true scale of the carbon reductions required, a survey published today has suggested. There was also less support for carbon capture and storage, new nuclear...

Sue Beitlich with the Wisconsin Farmers Union said the Homegrown Renewable Energy Campaign proposes four new policy initiatives: a crop reserve program for biomass, expanded use of renewables in schools and communities, a renewable energy buyback program, and a low carbon fuel stan...

By Brian Moon-audio WIBA Governor Doyle is among US and international leaders who've signed an agreement to help grow "green" economies. The focus is on investment in renewable energies.  Doyle says advocating more oil drilling is not beneficial to Wisconsin because the state has no oil.

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A Minnesota based utility has announced plans for a biomass power plant in northern Wisconsin. Xcel Energy plans to convert its existing coal fired generating plant in Ashland to burn biomass exclusively. The plant already burns wood waste to augment coal. The plan draws kudos from Mark Re...

By Matt Feltz Moving from one politically-driven pipe dream to another, we peek in at Cambridge-based Mascoma Corporation, which is currently working on a way to make ethanol fuel more viable and less of a payoff to electorally-important corn farmers. (Apologies to any Iowa-born Bostonians we may h...

Jock Gill is an entrepreneur who's thinking broadly and acting decisively to help create an decentralized energy system that makes appropriate use of biomass. In part one of a two-part interview, he and host Jon Udell discuss alternatives to fossil fuel for residential heating in New En...

Also, Jackie Jones, editor of Renewable Energy World Magazine, brought back some interviews from the World Sustainable Energy Days in Wels, Austria. We’ll get some perspective on how the International Energy Agency is approaching renewable energy, how the European Commission will e...

Firstly, Bruce Rittman, director of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Arizona, will tell us about microbial fuel cells that use cultures of bacteria to break down wet biomass waste to create electricity.

Firstly, Bruce Rittman, director of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Arizona, will tell us about microbial fuel cells that use cultures of bacteria to break down wet biomass waste to create electricity.

By Mike Millikin The team, led by Frank Dohleman of the Plant Biology Department, theorized that Miscanthus produces more usable biomass than switchgrass because of these three key attributes: Miscanthus has a greater leaf area; and Miscanthus has a longer growing season.

By nroberts@earthsky.org (Earth & Sky Radio Series)

Biomass energy using new technologies could could be a clean, renewable resource

The new research centers are part of the Bush administration's plan to reduce gasoline consumption by 20 percent during the next decade. The centers will study biomass plants such as switchgrass, poplar trees and corn stalks used for cellulosic ethanol.

The Secretary says the consortium will play an important role in meeting Governor Doyle's goal of having 25 percent of Wisconsin's energy coming from renewable sources by the year 2025. States involved in the group will focus on creating new ethanol plants and researching bio-technolo...