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Biomass (in the context of energy generation) is matter from recently living (but now dead) organisms which is used for bioenergy production. There are variations in how such biomass for energy is defined, e.g. only from plants, [8] or from plants and algae, [9] or from plants and animals. [10]
Biomass is a term used in several contexts: in the context of ecology it means living organisms, [1] and in the context of bioenergy it means matter from recently living (but now dead) organisms. In the latter context, there are variations in how biomass is defined, e.g., only from plants, [ 2 ] from plants and algae, [ 3 ] from plants and ...
The global biomass broken down by kingdom and into taxonomic groups for animals. [1] The estimates for bacteria and archaea have been updated to 30 billion tonnes C combined since this figure was made. [20] Most of the global biomass is found on land, with only 5 to 10 billion tonnes C found in the oceans. [24]
[10] Many chemical conversions are based on established coal-based processes, such as the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. [11] Like coal, biomass can be converted into multiple commodity chemicals. [12] Biochemical processes have developed in nature to break down the molecules of which biomass is composed, and many of these can be harnessed. In most ...
[107] [108] With these plants, the non-edible biomass or waste of edible biomass is converted in to high value products without any water pollution or green house gas (GHG) emissions. [109] LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) is a key source of cooking fuel in urban India and its prices have been increasing along with the global fuel prices.
Gross primary production (GPP) is the amount of chemical energy, typically expressed as carbon biomass, that primary producers create in a given length of time.Some fraction of this fixed energy is used by primary producers for cellular respiration and maintenance of existing tissues (i.e., "growth respiration" and "maintenance respiration").
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In some instances, torrefaction of biomass may benefit the power plant if energy crops/biomass is the material the converted fossil fuel power plant will be using. [16] Also, when using energy crops as the fuel, and if implementing biochar production, the thermal power plant can even become carbon negative rather than just carbon neutral.