By Glenn Farris, Managing Director, Lee Enterprises Consulting The Role of Purpose-Grown Energy Crops In the drive towards a clean energy future and a low-carbon energy environment, purpose-grown energy crops will play a major…
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Biochar Consultant
What does a biochar consultant do? Biochar is a range of biomass-derived high-carbon content chars with very high surface area per unit weight that are used as soil amendments or as water/ground remediation agents. Biochar…
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Biomass to Sugars Experts
The production of sugars from non-food biomass is the Holy Grail of many biotechnology developers. The goal is to produce low-cost sugars to support competitive end products, and to avoid dependence on food resources. Feedstocks…
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Carbon Negative Impacts from Biomass Conversion
Many countries have carbon credit programs for biomass conversion, designed to achieve GHG reduction goals. Several forms of biomass diversion from landfills, farms, and other biomass–dependent GHG sources are already in operation to support significant…
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Biomass Conversion
What is biomass conversion? In the context of Industrial Biotechnology (IB) biomass is a feedstock used to supply sugars or other chemicals which are used for energy to drive fermentation processes or as feedstocks for…
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Gasification: The Flexible Answer to Biomass Conversion
Is biomass gasification the answer to biomass conversion? Biomass is a rich salad of chemicals that contains many highly valuable materials that are precursors to fine chemicals, nutrients, and pharmaceuticals. But this strength is also…
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Thermochemical Conversion
Thermochemical conversion is a broad classification of technologies, including combustion, gasification, pyrolysis, torrefaction, and liquifaction, utilizing temperature and pressure rather than chemical or biological catalysts or enzymes for the production of desired chemicals or fuels….
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Biomass
Biomass is renewable organic material that comes from plants and animals. Biomass contains stored chemical energy from the sun and the use of biomass fuels for transportation and for electricity generation is increasing as we…
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Thermochemical Expert
What does a thermochemical expert or a thermochemical consultant do? Thermochemical processes are most commonly employed for converting biomass and waste into fuel or processed further to produce value added chemicals. Major thermal conversion routes…
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Biomass Processing Equipment
Biomass is plant-based material that, for the purposes of energy production, typically originates as residuals from another value extraction process (sawmilling, agricultural, industrial processes) or is grown specifically for the energy conversion process. Biomass has…
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