What is feedstock energy?
Energy terms. Feedstock is raw material used for processing or manufacturing another product. Examples of feedstock include crude oil, which is used to produce gasoline, corn, which is used to produce ethanol, and soybean oil, which is used to produce biodiesel.
What is the difference between feedstock and biomass?
Biomass resources that are available on a renewable basis and are used either directly as a fuel or converted to another form or energy product are commonly referred to as “feedstocks.”
What is renewable feedstock?
What is renewable feedstocks? Renewable feedstocks entail the elimination of non-renewable carbon resources such as coal, oil, and natural gas as feedstocks for organic chemistry, otherwise known as de-fossilization.
How is feedstock transported?
Resources and feedstocks may be transported by truck, train, or barge using existing transportation infrastructure. In this photo, preprocessed biomass is being loaded into a trailer that will either deliver the biomass feedstock to a biorefinery or will act as a temporary storage container for the biomass.
What are types of feedstocks?
Biomass Feedstocks as a Renewable Carbon Source
- Agricultural residues (e.g., corn stover)
- Algae.
- Dedicated energy crops (e.g., switchgrass, miscanthus, energy cane, sweet sorghum, high biomass sorghum, hybrid poplars, and shrub willows)
- Forestry residues (e.g., logging residues and forest thinning)
Is biomass a feedstock?
Biomass is a sustainable feedstock for chemicals and energy products. Biomass feedstocks are more evenly distributed in the world. As an energy source that is highly productive, renewable, carbon neutral, and easy to store and transport, biomass has drawn worldwide attention recently.
What is the most sustainable feedstock?
Sustainable feedstocks can include energy crops grown on marginal land, agricultural and forestry residues, municipal solid waste, and other novel feedstocks such as algae and other aquatic plants and microbial biomass.
Why are renewable feed stocks better than depleting sources?
An example of a renewable feedstock is biomass, which refers to any material derived from living organisms, usually plants. In contrast to depleting feedstocks like petroleum, we can much more easily grow new plants once we use them up, and maintain a continuous supply.
What is feedstock supply?
The biomass feedstock supply system is a combination of multiple operations that include harvest and collection, storage, preprocessing, and transportation. Each operation within the supply system incurs a cost while influencing the biomass quality.