Say what? You weren’t expecting that headline, were you? For lack of a technical explanation, torrefaction is the roasting of biomass in the presence of a minimal amount of oxygen, with the aim of improving its energy-related properties.
Category: Biomass
Thermal Anaerobic Gasification
Those of you who may have checked out our page on renewable energy investment opportunities will recall our relation with a company called RRC and its unique approach and capability in thermal anaerobic gasification. I’ll be taking a break from …
From Guest Blogger Deepi: Biomass Briquette Press Used For Satisfying Emerging Energy Needs
Biomass is a significant source of energy in the world, particularly in rural areas. However, most current use of firewood and fossil fuels for heating and cooking brings with it harmful effects of indoor air pollution and associated adverse health …
From Guest Blogger Deepi Makwana: Biomass Briquetting Plant – Meet A Green Business
Biomass briquetting plant is the green business for manufacturing Eco fuel briquettes from biomass feedstock. Since the 1970’s the scientific community has been interested in converting biomass to energy. In the beginning, there was not much interest as the world …
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Check out Panamanian Waste-To-Energy Project
Of all the clean energy investment opportunities I’ve come across in the last year, I have to put this in my top two or three. It’s a project that will generate electricity from a municipal solid waste site (one plant …
Tagged with: gasification technology, Panama, power purchase agreement, PPA, waste-to-electricity plant
Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: Converting Animal Waste To Biofertilizer
Question: Approximately how much manure is produced by the dairy cows and hogs in the U.S. every day? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: Improper management of lagoons and dry waste run-off, as well as lagoon overflow …
Waste to Energy, Methane Digesters, and Old Friends
It never ceases to amaze me how 2Greenenergy’s relatively tiny Internet presence has reconnected me with old friends I haven’t seen in 40 years. Bruce Wilson, whom I met in the sandbox in kindergarten in 1960, reconnected with me fairly …
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From Guest Blogger Jenny: Pile of Toxic Garbage
Almost forty million metric tons of electronic waste is produced annually by the world. Only thirteen percent of the total waste is recycled and that too primarily in developing countries. Nine million tons of waste, a conservation figure according to …
Waste-Tire-to-Energy — An Advancement
We’ve been hearing about various processes for converting waste-tires to energy, fuels, and other valuable stuff (e.g., carbon black) for decades now. And yes, there really are a few people with pyrolysis technology that really works; my friends from the …
From Guest Blogger Aiden Korr: Five Reasons Why Bamboo Is a Reliable Alternative Energy Source
There are several species of bamboo in the world. They are used in furniture, construction, decorative purposes and some of them become breakfast, lunch and dinner to Pandas – yes, an adult Panda can easily devour 25 to 40 kgs …
