This document discusses biomass conversion technologies. Biomass refers to living and recently living organisms that can be converted into biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts. There are four main conversion platforms - biochemical, thermochemical, biogas, and carbon rich chains. The biochemical platform uses plant matter through pretreatment, hydrolysis, and sugar fermentation. The thermochemical platform includes gasification and pyrolysis to produce syngas. Anaerobic digestion is the biogas platform that uses microorganisms to decompose biomass into biogas. Transesterification converts oils into biodiesel. The document also discusses energy crops and advances in biomass conversion technologies.