Chapter 6 - Biological fuel generation
- Global warming and the significance of fossil fuels
- Contrast CO2 release from fossil fuel and recent plant material
- Photosynthesis
- Equation
- Efficiency
- plants
- Biomass
- Biofuels from biomass
- Definition
- forms
- Crops & how use
- European land
- Conversion
- process
- end products
- Cultivation
- source
- examples
- Org wastes
- Technical processing
- Bioethanol from biomass
- Alcohol - equation
- Current source
- Benefits of bioethanol
- cheapest source
- Brazil
- Why industrial
- Pretreatment of biomass
- Biotech impact
- microorgs
- bioreactor design
- Stillage
- definition
- how deal with
- Biodiesel
- Source
- Method of production
- Biomass sources
- Differences from conv. diesel
- Engine modifications
- results
- Where used
- CostMethane
- What is it?
- Sources
- Is it a green house gas
- Processing stages from organic mixtures
- Rumen
- Industrial production
- sewage
- agriculture & urban wastes
- difficulties
- Biogas
- definition
- composition
- biomethylation
- process
- scale
- where practiced
- marine algae
- Hydrogen
- Use
- Competition
- Source
- The way ahead for biofuels
- entry factors
- goals
- other costs
- Contrasting views on climate change
- Solar winds
- Computer modeling
- Fossil fuel supply