Energy for factories

  • Combustion (power plants or space heating)
    Waste biomass can power factory, e.g., sugar refinery.
  • Anaerobic Digestion (methane for pipelines) Trials were uneconomic.
    Methane not a likely feedstock unless price of natural gas increases greatly.

    Production of Chemicals

  • Thermal conversion (pyrolysis, etc.)
  • Gasification (synthesis gas)
  • Biodiesel
  • Aqueous formation of alkanes
  • Bioconversion
  • Polymers from biomass feedstocks

     
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