This document discusses biomass as a renewable energy source. It defines biomass as non-fossil organic resources from which energy can be produced, including vegetation, organic wastes, and photosynthetic organisms. Biomass can be burned directly for heat or used to create steam for electricity generation. It also describes various biomass feedstocks like energy crops, agricultural residues, and municipal solid waste. The document outlines the benefits of biomass but also notes barriers to its increased use like lack of experience with the technologies and high initial capital costs.
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There are many alternatives to produce energy like solar system, wind farm, bio mass bracketing plant etc... Through this option we can produce energy in an economical way.
Triacylglycerols produced by plants are one of the most energy-rich and abundant forms of reduced carbon available from nature. Given their chemical similarities, plant oils represent a logical substitute for conventional diesel, a non-renewable energy source. However, as plant oils are too viscous for use in modern diesel engines, they are converted to fatty acid esters. Apart from seed oil vegetative tissue is potential source as bio mass for biofuel production, taking 15 tonnes per hectare as an average dry matter yield for a perennial grass, an oil content of 20– 25% by weight will produce about 3400 l of biodiesel (Heaton et al., 2004). There is growing interest in engineering green biomass to expand the production of plant oils as feed and biofuels. Here, we show that PHOSPHOLIPID: DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE1 (PDAT1) is a critical enzyme involved in triacylglycerol (TAG) synthesis in leaves. Overexpression of PDAT1 increases leaf TAG accumulation, leading to oil droplet overexpansion through fusion. Ectopic expression of oleosin promotes the clustering of small oil droplets. Coexpression of PDAT1 with oleosin boosts leaf TAG content by up to 6.4% of the dry weight without affecting membrane lipid composition and plant growth. PDAT1 overexpression stimulates fatty acid synthesis (FAS) and increases fatty acid flux toward the prokaryotic glycerolipid pathway (Julian at al..2013). First, an Arabidopsis thaliana gene diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT) coding for a key enzyme in triacylglycerol (TAG) biosynthesis, was expressed in tobacco under the control of a strong ribulose-biphosphate carboxylase small subunit promoter. This modification led to up to a 20-fold increase in TAG accumulation in tobacco leaves and translated into an overall of about a twofold increase in extracted fatty acids (FA) up to 5.8% of dry biomass in Nicotiana tabacum cv Wisconsin, and up to 6% in high-sugar tobacco variety NC-55 ( Andrianovet al 2010). Therefore Biotechnology has important and perhaps critical part to play in large-scale development of Biodiesel.
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Cement is a material with adhesive and cohesive properties which make it capable of bonding minerals fragments into a compact whole. It can be defined as any substance, which can join unite two or more pieces of some other substance together to form a unit mass. It is an inorganic, non-metallic substance with hydraulic binding properties, and is used as a bonding agent in building materials. It is a fine powder, usually gray in color that consists of a mixture of the hydraulic cement minerals to which one or more forms of calcium sulfate have been added.
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Bioenergy draws on a wide range of potential feedstock materials: forestry and agricultural residues and wastes of many sorts, as well as material grown specifically for energy purposes. The raw materials can be converted to heat for use in buildings and industry, to electricity, or into gaseous or liquid fuels, which can be used in transport, for example. This degree of flexibility is unique amongst the different forms of renewable energy.
Li-Fi is the term some have used to label the fast and cheap wireless-communication system, which is the optical version of Wi-Fi. The term was first used in this context by Harald Haas in his TED Global talk on Visible Light Communication(VLC). The technology was demonstrated at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas using a pair of Casio smartphones to exchange data using light of varying intensity given off from their screens, detectable at a distance of up to ten meters. For more recent trends in electronics please visit radeshyamece.blogspot.com
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The second law of thermodynamics is explored in this lecture. Topics covered include:
Introduction to the second law
Thermal energy reservoirs
Heat engines
Thermal efficiency
The 2nd law: Kelvin-Planck statement
Refrigerators and heat pumps
Coefficient of performance (COP)
The 2nd law: Clasius statement
Perpetual motion machines
Reversible and irreversible processes
Irreversibility's, Internal and externally reversible processes
The Carnot cycle
The reversed Carnot cycle
The Carnot principles
The thermodynamic temperature scale
The Carnot heat engine
The quality of energy
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Mass flow and energy analysis of control systems is the focus of this lecture
Conservation of mass
Mass and volume flow rates
Mass balance for a steady flow process
Mass balance for incompressible flow
Flow work and the energy of a flowing fluid
his lecture examines both work and energy in closed systems and categorises the different types of closed systems that will be encountered.
Moving boundary work
Boundary work for an isothermal process
Boundary work for a constant-pressure process
Boundary work for a polytropic process
Energy balance for closed systems
Energy balance for a constant-pressure expansion or compression process
Specific heats
Constant-pressure specific heat, cp
Constant-volume specific heat, cv
Internal energy, enthalpy and specific heats of ideal gases
Energy balance for a constant-pressure expansion or compression process
Internal energy, enthalpy and specific heats of incompressible substances (Solids and liquids)
Identifying the correct properties of a substance is of vital importance. Many of these properties are distilled from property tables. This lecture addresses how to identify these properties.
Pure substance
Phases of a pure substance
Phase change processes of pure substances
Compressed liquid, Saturated liquid, Saturated vapor, Superheated vapor Saturated temperature and Satuated pressure
Property diagrams for phase change processes
The T-v diagram, The P-v diagram, The P-T diagram, The P-v-T diagram
Property tables
Enthalpy
Saturated liquid, Saturated vapor, Saturated liquid vapor mixture, Superheated vapor, compressed liquid
Reference state and Reference values
The ideal gas equation of state
Is water vapor an ideal gas?
Lecture covering the basic concepts required for the module:
Systems and control volumes
Properties of a system
Density and specific gravity
State and equilibrium
The state postulate
Processes and cycles
The state-flow process
Temperature and the zeroth law of thermodynamics
Temperature scales
Pressure
Variation of pressure with depths
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
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Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
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6. Definition of BioMass
• Encompasses a variety of fuels and technologies used to
produce renewable energy
• Refers to:
• land and water-based vegetation
• organic wastes
• photosynthetic organisms
• These are non-fossil, renewable carbon resources from
which energy can be produced and used as fossil fuel
substitutes
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8. Examples and uses
• Wood, grasses, crops, agricultural and municipal
wastes
• Can be burned to produce heat
• Used to create steam to turn turbines -
electricity generation
• Liquid biofuels can also be derived from biomass
crops
9.
10. Energy from biomass and waste is often
referred to as bioenergy. When plant
material is burned for energy purposes
carbon dioxide is released. However,
because plants absorb carbon dioxide
during their life cycle, the net emissions of
carbon dioxide are zero. In this way, wood
is said to be carbon neutral.
18. Benefits of BioMass
• Net reduction in CO2 emissions.
• Indigenous resource - can reduce dependence on fuel
imports
• Secure energy supply
• Employment - Fuel cultivation, Engineering consultants,
environmental services, construction, legal/financing,
manufacturing, maintenance etc...
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20. - Manufacturing - while there are some manufacturing companies in Ireland e.g. pellet equipmen
there is significant potential for establishment of manufacturers of the various components of
biofuel systems.
- Maintenance, servicing and administration
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Source: EU Altener Report: Impact of RES on Employment, 2000.
ironmental gains
- biomass is sustainable and does not deplete future resources.
- energy forestry crops have a much greater diversity of wildlife
25. Energy Crops
• Short Rotation Forestry (SRF) - Production of wood fuel
through the cultivation of high-yielding trees at close spacing
on short time rotations
• Willow
• Poplar
• Hemp
• Miscanthus
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27. Energy Crops
• Liquid BioFuels - grown for production of liquid transport
fuels.
• Different production techniques
• Biodiesel - derived from oil crops i.e. oilseed & camelina
• Bioethanol - wheat, sugarbeet, sweet sorghum and woody
crops
• Biomethanol - Biomasses sources i.e. grasses, SRF, crop
residues, municipal solid waste
• Liquid BioFuels can be incorporated as blends with petrol/
diesel fuels or as a replacement for same
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29. Organic Residues
• Forest residues - tree tops, branches etc...
• Wood wastes or by-products from wood processing
• Agricultural residues - animal slurry and manure, chicken
litter, spent mushroom compost and straw (disposal of these
pose environmental problems)
• Municipal solid waste - food processing waste, sewage sludge
• Waste vegetable oil - catering industry
• Tallow - animal fat of variable quality
30.
31. Conversion of BioMass to energy
• Direct combustion - some processing of biomass may be
carried out prior to combustion e.g. sorting, chipping,
pelleting or drying
• Thermochemical processes - BioMass is upgraded to a liquid
or gas by pyrolysis and gasification
• Decomposition of solid bioMass to liquid or gaseous fuels by
process such as anaerobic digestion and fermentation
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33. UK
Sweden
Spain
Portugal
Netherlands
Italy
Ireland
Germany
France
Finland
Denmark
Belgium
Austria
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Use of Biomass in European Countries. Source: AFB-net Report, 2001
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35. climate in Europe. Our potential annual yield of wood is almost three times that of Finland, where the energy
use from biomass is 18%! We need to realise this potential and develop our natural biomass resources.
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Ireland has the highest potential annual yield of wood in Europe (figures are based on
Paterson’s Climatic Index m3/ha). Source: Forest Resources in Europe 1950-1990, 1994.
Forestry in Ireland
36.
37. The potential to develop our use of biomass
for energy cannot go unrecognized. Ireland
has the best growth climate in Europe. Our
potential annual yield of wood is almost
three times that of Finland, where the energy
use from biomass is 18%!!!!!!
38.
39. Barriers to BioMass
• Lack of experience and familiarity with BioMass technologies
• Attitude of the electricity, heat and fuel supply industries -
changing
• Initial capital costs - taxes on renewable energy systems
(however greener homes grants now available), lack of grants
(changing)
• Uncertainty as to the availability of BioMass resources -
Framing
• Need for an integrated BioMass policy
• Lack of information, education and training
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42.
43. What is Biomass?
Biomass is the oldest fuel used by mankind. Wood has been used as a
fuel for cooking and heating for over 500,000 years, but has suffered a
decline in the last century as the use of fossil fuels increased. However,
the environmentally harmful effects of burning fossil fuels coupled with
the need to secure indigenous renewable sources of energy has resulted
in a return to using natural and clean sources of energy such as
biomass.
Definition of Biomass
The term biomass encompasses a variety of fuels and technologies used
to produce renewable energy. Biomass refers to land and water-based
vegetation, organic wastes and photosynthetic organisms. These are
non-fossil, renewable carbon resources from which energy can be
produced and used as fossil fuel substitutes. Examples of biomass
include: wood, grasses, crops, agricultural and municipal wastes.
Biomass can be burned to produce heat that is used to create steam to
turn turbines to produce electricity. Therefore, energy from biomass can
produce electricity and/or heat. Liquid biofuels can also be derived from
The majority of todays lecture has been biomass crops such as oilseed rape.
Energy from biomass and waste is often referred to as bioenergy. When
sourced from Sustainable Energy plant material is burned for energy purposes carbon dioxide is released.
However, because plants absorb carbon dioxide during their life cycle,
the net emissions of carbon dioxide are zero. In this way, wood is said
Ireland’s BioMass fact sheet available to be carbon neutral.
from:
Sustainable Energy Ireland
Atmospheric CO2, water
and sunlight
Shinagh House Carbon released back
into the atmosphere
Converted into new plant material
through photosynthesis
Bandon, Co. Cork,
and available to download at:
Which is harvested and burnt
or downloadable from:
Source: British BioGen, the UK Trade Association for Bioenergy.
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