Biomass biological material derived from living, or recently living organisms. Often used to mean plant based material. Biomass can equally apply to both animals and vegetable derived material. Biomass is a mixture of organic molecules containing hydrogen, atoms of oxygen, nitrogen, and small quantities of other atoms. Plants may be eaten by animals and is converted into animal biomass. The primary absorption is done by the plants. Plant material that is not eaten is either broken down by micro-organisms or burned. The process has happened since the birth of the first plant.
Biomass has many good examples here are some: Fast growing trees and grasses, agriculture residues, wood waste, captured methane from landfills, livestock, and municipal waste water treatment. Biomass is stored solar energy that man can convert into electricity, fuel, and heat. Energy from the sun is stored in chemical bond of the plant material. Processes such as cogeneration, gasification, and fermentation, these processes can tap into energy sources to produce energy available for human consumption.
Photosynthesis, or plants capturing sunlight and transform it into electricity, heat, or liquid fuels. The heat turns water into steam this is used to turn a turbine generator to produce electricity. The next method involves gasifying, then burning the liquid.
Biomass is a very important and useful type of energy. It is used in plants and animals. When biomass is used in a plant it is just called biomass, but when it is used with an animal it is called animal biomass. Biomass is made from material that has once been a living thing. Biomass can also be converted into other fuels like crops can be converted into alcohol. Only five percent is used in the United States.
Resources:
http://www.biomassenergycentre.org.uk/portal/page?_pageid=76,15049&_dad=portal
written by: Biomass Energy Centre
http://cr.middlebury.edu/es/altenergylife/sbiomass.htm
written by: Middlebury college
http://www.bluffton.edu/courses/TLC/MontelA/Montel/Alternative_Energy_Website/biomass.htm
written by: Bluffton University
http://sites.middlebury.edu/biomass/
written by: Middlebury college
Biomass biological material derived from living, or recently living organisms. Often used to mean plant based material. Biomass can equally apply to both animals and vegetable derived material. Biomass is a mixture of organic molecules containing hydrogen, atoms of oxygen, nitrogen, and small quantities of other atoms. Plants may be eaten by animals and is converted into animal biomass. The primary absorption is done by the plants. Plant material that is not eaten is either broken down by micro-organisms or burned. The process has happened since the birth of the first plant.
Biomass has many good examples here are some: Fast growing trees and grasses, agriculture residues, wood waste, captured methane from landfills, livestock, and municipal waste water treatment. Biomass is stored solar energy that man can convert into electricity, fuel, and heat. Energy from the sun is stored in chemical bond of the plant material. Processes such as cogeneration, gasification, and fermentation, these processes can tap into energy sources to produce energy available for human consumption.
Photosynthesis, or plants capturing sunlight and transform it into electricity, heat, or liquid fuels. The heat turns water into steam this is used to turn a turbine generator to produce electricity. The next method involves gasifying, then burning the liquid.
Biomass is a very important and useful type of energy. It is used in plants and animals. When biomass is used in a plant it is just called biomass, but when it is used with an animal it is called animal biomass. Biomass is made from material that has once been a living thing. Biomass can also be converted into other fuels like crops can be converted into alcohol. Only five percent is used in the United States.