biomass

From Trash to Gas: Biomass - Investigation

Biomass Fuel types.

Name Agricultural crops and wood fuels.

Definition:

Agricultural crops: A crop is usually expanded to include macroscopic fungus.

Wood Fuels: Wood fuel is the largest use of energy derived from solid fuel biomass.

Research:

Agricultural crops: Agricultural crops are just like straws with bark.

Wood Fuel: Using wood as a renewable source of energy has the potential to deliver considerable social and economic benefits as well as mitigate climate change. 

Uses: 

Agricultural crops: provides most of the world's food and fabrics.

Image:

Name Animal waste.

Definition:

Animal waste is mostly known as animal manure. But also animal waste can be considered as hay, straw and wood shavings.

Research:

The removal of metabolic waste products from the body of an organism is known as excretion. The major excretory products are carbon dioxide, excess water, and nitrogenous compounds like ammonia, urea, uric acid, etc. Carbon dioxide and water are produced in the process of tissue respiration.

Uses: 

Cow manure is the resource to generate renewable energy. The manure is collected and heated, creating the natural byproduct of methane gas. 

Image:

Name: Biogas

Definition: 
Gaseous fuel, especially methane, produced by the fermentation of organic matter.

Research:

Biogas is a mixture of gases produced by the breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen. Biogas can be produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material, sewage, green waste or food waste. 

Uses:
Bio gases a renewable energy source.

Image:

Name: Bio fuels

Definition:

 A fuel derived immediately from living matter.

Research:

Biofuels can also include solid fuels like wood pellets and biogas or syngas. There are two main types of biofuels. Ethanol and bio diesel. The simplest way to distinguish between the two is to remember ethanol is an alcohol and biodiesel is an oil.

Uses:

It can be used as a fuel for vehicles in its pure form but it is usually used as a diesel.

Image:

                        bn