Investigation.
What is biomass?
Biomass gets its energy from the sun. All organic matter contains stored energy from the sun. During a process called photosynthesis, sunlight gives plants the energy they need to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and sugars.
What are the 5 types of biomass?
- Biogas and land Filling
- Biofuels
- Solid Waste
- Ethanol
- Biomass
What are three benefits of biomass?
- 1 Renewable. We will always have the sources of biomass such as crops, manure and garbage.
- Carbon Neutral is maybe the most important of the advantages of biomass energy.
- Cost-Effective. Energy harnessed from biomass is inexpensive compared to coal and oil.
What are three disadvantages of biomass?
- Biomass is always and widely available as a renewable source of energy. ...It is carbon neutral.
- It reduces the over reliance on fossil fuels Is less expensive than fossil fuels.
- Biomass production adds a revenue source for manufacturers.Less garbage in landfills.
Research the following types of Biomass.
You will need to:
Write a definition of each fuel.
Answer each question
- How is it made?
- It is made from organic like vegetable peelings scraps banana and even horse manure
- Where is it made?
- Brazil,austria,united states
- What countries use it?
- Kenya, Usa, Sweden, Kenya
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Biomass types.
Name: Agricultural Crops.
Definition:
Agricultural crops such as silver grass and straw from cereal crops can be used as a fuel for production of heat. Herbaceous material has a different composition from wood and its burning must be handled differently from that of wood.
Research:
A crop is a plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence Most crops are cultivated in agriculture or aquaculture.
Uses:
Heating or electricity
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What are its uses in the future?
By use, crops fall into six categories: food crops, for human consumption (e.g., wheat, potatoes) feed crops, for livestock consumption
Name: Animal waste.
Definition:
Pig Manure, Horse Manure, Cow Manure
Research:
Discarded material from industries directly associated with the raising of animals, such as those wastes produced by livestock farming manure, milk, meat production.
Uses:
planting
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What are its use in the future?
Animal manure, such as chicken manure and cow dung, has been used for centuries as a fertilizer for farming. It can improve the soil structure aggregation so that the soil holds more nutrients.
Name: Bio-gas and Landfill gas
Definition:
Ethanol
Methanol
Methane
Research:
Landfills for municipal solid waste can be a source of energy. Anaerobic bacteria that can live without the presence of free oxygen living in landfills decompose organic waste to produce a gas called biogas Landfill biogas.
Uses:
Vehicle cooking
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Name: Solid waste
Definition:
Solid waste means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded materials including solid, liquid.
Research:
Combustion is the burning of biomass in air. It is used over a wide range of commercial and industrial combustion plant outputs to convert the chemical energy stored in the solid waste into either heat or electricity.
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Name: Alcohol Fuel
Definition:
Ethanol fuel is ethyl alcohol, the same type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, used as fuel.
Research:
Alcohols have been used as a fuel. The first four aliphatic alcohols (methanol,ethanol, propanol, and butanol) are of interest as fuels because they can be synthesized chemically or biologically
Uses:
Alcohol fuel used as fuel It is most often used as a motor fuel, mainly as a biofuel additive for gasoline.
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