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Biomass Power Plant

Biomass is biological material that can be used as a renewable source of energy. It includes wood, waste agricultural crops, and animal waste. Biomass can be burned to produce heat and electricity, or converted into liquid biofuels like ethanol. While biomass produces fewer emissions than fossil fuels when burned, its use may impact the environment through deforestation, water use, and air and noise pollution from biomass power plants. It also requires a steady supply of biomass materials.

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Biomass Power Plant

Biomass is biological material that can be used as a renewable source of energy. It includes wood, waste agricultural crops, and animal waste. Biomass can be burned to produce heat and electricity, or converted into liquid biofuels like ethanol. While biomass produces fewer emissions than fossil fuels when burned, its use may impact the environment through deforestation, water use, and air and noise pollution from biomass power plants. It also requires a steady supply of biomass materials.

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BIOMASS POWER PLANT

For many people, the most familiar forms of renewable energy are the wind and the sun. But biomass
(plant material and animal waste) is oldest source of renewable energy, used since our ancestors
learned the secret of fire.

BIOMASS is biological material derived from living, or recently living organisms. In the context of
biomass as a resource for making energy, it most often refers to plants or plant-based materials which
are not used for food or feed.

Wood remains the largest biomass energy source to date; examples include forest residues (such as
dead trees, branches and tree trumps), yard clippings, wood chips and even municipal solid waste. In the
second sense, biomass includes plant or animal matter that can be converted into fibers or other
industrial chemicals, including biofuels.

Biomass can be converted to other usable forms of energy like methane gas or transportation fuels like
ethanol and biodiesel. Rotting garbage, and agricultural and human waste, all release methane gas- also
called landfill gas or biogas. Crops, such as corn and sugar cane, can be fermented to produce the
transportation fuel, ethanol. Biodiesel, another transportation fuel, can be produced from left-over food
products like vegetable oils and animals’ fats.

In addition to combustion, bio-mass or bio-fuels can be directly converted to electrical energy via
electromechanical oxidation of the material. This can be performed directly in a direct carbon fuel cell,
direct ethanol fuel cell or a microbial fuel cell. The fuel can be also being consumed indirectly via fuel
cell system containing a reformer which converts the bio-mass into a mixture of CO and H2 before it is
consumed in the fuel cell.

BIOMASS ENERGY OPERATION IMPACTS:

- DEFORESTATION AND FARMING PRACTICES


- WATER USE
- AIR EMISSIONS
- ACOUSTICS (NOISE)
- CULTURAL RESOURCES
- ECOLOGICAL RESOURCES
- HAZARDOUS MATERIALS AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
- HUMAN HEALTH AND SAFETY
- PALEONTOLOGICAL RESOURCES
- SOCIECONOMICS
- TRANSPORATION
- VISUAL RESOURCES
OTHER REFERENCE

What is Biomass?

Biomass is fuel that is developed from organic materials, a renewable and sustainable source of energy
used to create electricity or other forms of power.

Some examples of materials that make up biomass fuels are:

 scrap lumber;
 forest debris;
 certain crops;
 manure; and
 some types of waste residues.
With a constant supply of waste – from construction and demolition activities, to wood not used in
papermaking, to municipal solid waste – green energy production can continue indefinitely.

Biomass is a renewable source of fuel to produce energy because:

 waste residues will always exist – in terms of scrap wood, mill residuals and forest resources; and
 properly managed forests will always have more trees, and we will always have crops and the residual
biological matter from those crops.
ReEnergy Holdings is an integrated waste fuel/biomass renewable energy company. Our facilities collect,
process and recycle items for use as fuel, as well as green energy facilities that create power from that
waste.

What is biomass power?


Biomass power is carbon neutral electricity generated from renewable organic waste that would otherwise
be dumped in landfills, openly burned, or left as fodder for forest fires.
When burned, the energy in biomass is released as heat. If you have a fireplace, you already are
participating in the use of biomass as the wood you burn in it is a biomass fuel.

In biomass power plants, wood waste or other waste is burned to produce steam that runs a turbine to
make electricity, or that provides heat to industries and homes. Fortunately, new technologies —
including pollution controls and combustion engineering — have advanced to the point that any emissions
from burning biomass in industrial facilities are generally less than emissions produced when using fossil
fuels (coal, natural gas, oil). ReEnergy has included these technologies in our facilities.

Biomass challenges
While the process to create electricity is similar whether using a biomass fuel or a fossil fuel, the
equipment needed inside the plant is different. All of ReEnergy’s power generation facilities have been
outfitted — and new acquisitions are upgraded — to allow for the burning of biomass.

As with any electrical generation process, the facility needs a steady supply of fuel. In all cases,
ReEnergy has suppliers to deliver a steady stream of biomass, and has engaged other suppliers to
ensure the facilities have what they need. In addition, we create fuel for other biomass consumers — as
well as other products — at our recycling facilities.

When anything is burned, it can create emissions and ash. Our facilities have state-of-the-art cleaning
processes that keep emissions below state regulatory levels, and we reuse our ash.

Biomass and the US


Biomass fuels provided about 4 percent of the energy used in the United States in 2010. Of this, about 46
percent was from wood and wood-derived biomass, 43 percent was from biofuels (mainly ethanol), and
about 11 percent was from municipal waste. Researchers are trying to develop ways to burn more
biomass and fewer fossil fuels. Using biomass for energy cuts back on waste and greenhouse gas
emissions.

Biomass offers other significant environmental and consumer benefits, including improving forest health,
protecting air quality, and offering the most dependable renewable energy source.

BIOMASS TYPES:

- WOODY PLANTS
- HERBACEOUS PLANTS/GRASSES
- AQUATIC PLANTS

ADVANTAGES OF BIOMASS

1. No harmful Emissions
2. Clean Energy
3. Abundant and Renewable
4. Reduce Dependency of Fossil Fuels
5. Reduce Landfills
6. Can be used to create different products

DISADVANTAGES OF BIOMASS ENERGY

1. Expensive
2. Inefficient as Compared to Fossil Fuels
3. Harmful to Environment
4. Consume More Fuel
5. Require more Land

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ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE

- USING BIOMASS FOR ENERGY CAN HAVE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACTS
- USING BIOMASS FOR ENERGY CAN HAVE BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON THE
ENVIRONMENT
- USING BIOMASS FOR ENERGY PROVIDES AN ALTERNATIVE TO USING FOSSIL FUELS LIKE COAL,
PETROLEUM, OR NATURAL GAS.

 BURNING WOOD
 BURNING MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE OR WOOD WASTE
 DISPOSING OF ASH FROM WASTE-TO-ENERGY PLANTS
 COLLECTING LANDFILL GAS OR BIOGAS
 LIQUID BIOFUELS: ETHANOL AND BIODIESEL

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