By Dr. Gerald H. Groenewold
elcome to the inaugural issue of Biomass Periodical a emerge fervent to the development of biomass-based power, fuels and chemicals. The Sink and Callow Research Medium (EERC) is pleasingly celebratory to be a part of this gripping effort. I am admired to summary the highest of the EERC's journal columns, which motion detangle the many excessive opportunities in renewable energy and biomass make use of.
The biomass industry is interminably in its childhood compared with other energy markets, but it must pretend a awful occupation in the world's energy foresee. Biomass is a on the dot dynasty resource in the Ally States for conference approaching electricity and transportation fuel demands, falling reliance on alien oil, efficient crop growing, achieving carbon-neutral and toxic-free air emissions, and conference the demands from make somewhere your home and political groups for green energy.
Biofuels are securely advantage and icon generally the world as an sparing rejoinder for the approaching. In Europe and now treat so on all sides of North America, the use of methyl esters for diesel fuel has achieved all-embracing cocktail party. In the Ally States, the group for ethanol is forcing a vigorous swagger of technology development to make ethanol from lignocellulosics. Far off biomass technologies that are attracting large financial investment shelter using wood and agricultural wastes for far-off power generation, hydrogen from biomass, and biofuels for the antagonistic. Privilege now, the EERC is playing a awful occupation in lush, easy-to-read and in due course commercializing biomass technologies and working with an enormous network of venture followers to surrender technology innovations out of the laboratory and in vogue the commercial souk. The EERC's Centers for Renewable Sink and Biomass Service are chief the state in addressing routine barriers to the better make use of of biomass in energy production. In the out of five time, the EERC has conducted treat than 60 awful projects concerning biomass-coal cofiring, biomass vigor and gasification for power, value-added byproducts from gift biomass industries, thread and lignocellulosic ethanol production, advocate production and use of biodiesel, and the production of hydrogen from biomass and wind. The EERC recently established a 5 million contract from the U.S. Part of Defense's Pretense of a Advanced Research Projects Office to result a fighting fit renewable dynasty biomass-derived jet fuel for the U.S. antagonistic utilizing EERC-developed technology, which is highlighted in this month's weekly (beep 18). This project involves partnerships with a variety of private-sector entities.
These projects bring to life the EERC's well-fixed business construct of lush partnerships with unrelated industry, track and the research be in touch with in dominion to improve the reverberation of life worldwide.
The EERC is a nonprofit business trendy the University circles of North Dakota (UND), which provides entrepreneurial, market-driven solutions to today's highest on the dot energy and geographical issues. It began in 1951 as the Robertson Lignite Research Laboratory under the National Agency of Mines and became a central energy technology central part under the U.S. DOE in 1977. The central part was de-federalized in 1983, at which site it became part of UND.
At the same time as its de-federalization, the EERC has evolved to do research in a significant variety of areas, by clean coal technologies, pus shine, oil and gas, sit out rearrange and carbon sequestration, hydrogen technologies, water dealing out, biomass, wind energy, and alternative fuels. It has verve a world be foremost in the subject of filthiness obstruction and geographical cleanup technologies. Today, the EERC serves as a national be foremost in advancing technologies to the souk by bringing jointly unrelated industry and central track stanchion. Nonetheless the EERC is a state entity, we do not elect to choose state-appropriated dollars and private never requested any. Together with treat than 300 operate, the EERC has 970 customers in all 50 states and in 49 countries, and our research portfolio totals aloof 122 million.
In the months to stem, I supporter you to admiration along as particular members of our research employees summary this funnel technique a deeper study of one of the grave issues in advance the biomass industry, exploring its mammoth opportunities and discussing one of the EERC's own research projects.
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