Gasification: INTRODUCTION Biomass is one of the main available source of renewable energy. Its thermochemical upgrading can be performed in gasification (in the presence of air, O2, steam) or in…

In 2002, fossil fuels supplied 86 percent of the energy consumed in the United States. We also imported over half of the petroleum we used and we project that our dependency will continue to grow.…

Vegetable oil can be obtained from more than 300 different plant species. Oil is contained mainly in fruits and seeds, yet still other origins exist. The highest oil yields can be obtained from tree…

Key economic characteristics that distinguish industrial biofuel from fossil fuel conversion systems are their general cost structures, scale economies, degree and type of subsidies, foreign exchange…

Biofuel use in the transport sector Because transport fuels are almost exclusively petroleum derived, the rapid real price increases for oil in the 1970s left the transport sector in most oil-…

A spatially resolved biomass burning data set, and related emissions of SO2 and aerosol chemical constituents was constructed for India, for 1996–1997 and extrapolated to the INDOEX period (1998–1999…

Biomass consumption 5.1. Biofuels Rural and urban biofuel consumption were estimated using respective per capita consumption at a district level, and results aggregated at the state and national…

Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists say your wine bottle may hold a secret to a new biofuel. Inside cork is an enzyme responsible for the formation of suberin, the woody, waxy, cell-wall…

It is estimated that biomass covers currently up to 15% of the world energy demand, almost 1/3 of all energy consumption in the Less-Developed Countries. This rate was over the last years rather…

STUDIES ON BIOMASS UTILIZATION IN A RURAL INDIA AND ITS IMPACT ASSESSMENT ON ENVIRONMENT WITH SUGGESTION FOR POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVES Ashwini Kumar and Santosh Sharma Bio-Technology Lab Department of…