Biomass Investigation

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?

1.  Biogas and land Filling 
2.  Biofuels 
3.  Solid Waste 
4.  Ethanol
5. Biomass

What are three benefits of biomass?

1.   1 Renewable. We will always have the sources of biomass such as crops, manure and garbage.

2.  Carbon Neutral  is maybe the most important of the advantages of biomass energy.

3.     Cost-Effective. Energy harnessed from biomass is inexpensive compared to coal and oil.

What are three disadvantages of biomass?

1.   Biomass is always and widely available as a renewable source of energy. ...It is carbon neutral.

2. It reduces the over reliance on fossil fuels Is less expensive than fossil fuels.

3. 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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