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Cyclone Power Technologies

A modern steam engine, from Cyclone Power Technologies Consider for use in our Waste-to-Energy center. Burn multiple fuels or even use with solar, grid tied. Wonder if could pyrolize biomass with the exhaust temps. CPT has two different engines: a … Continue reading

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Cassava for biofuel in Vietnam

Cassava in Vietnam: a Successful Story http://cropsforbiofuel.blogspot.com/

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Jerusalem Artichoke

Jerusalem Artichoke Table 5. Tuber yield of four Jerusalem artichoke varieties in 3-row, 20-foot plots at Staples, MN – 1981. Variety Tuber Fresh Wt (lbs/acre) Tuber Dry Wt (lbs/acre) Dry Wt/Tuber (g) Columbia 22398 5769 15.7 Mammoth (MN) 8628 2166 … Continue reading

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Energy Crop Information

  Alternative Crops Field Manual, U of Wisconsin Lucid Interactive Selection Tool, Tropical Forages

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Sweet Sorghum for Biogas

Energreen Development to produce biogas from drought tolerant sorghum Energreen Development is to produce bioenergy from a drought tolerant hybrid sorghum that yields high amounts of biomass but requires no irrigation. Energreen is a French company uniting the expertise of … Continue reading

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Sweet Sorghum

Cost-effective renewable bioenergy, electricity, food production and more. SWEET SORGHUM: Fantastic for farmers, fuel, food, and our future. AgriFuels is a next-generation agribusiness and renewable energy project. The project employs a high-yielding, proprietary variety of the powerful energy plant sweet … Continue reading

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Hybrid Biogas Digester Design

Hybrid batch/continuous design a la UC Davis Anaerobic Phased Solids (APS) system. Also described in David House’s Biogas Handbook (©1978).  The idea is to have multiple batch fed hydrolysis tanks and a single larger biogasification reactor that is “semi”-continuously fed … Continue reading

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ISC Indonesian Superb Cassava

ISC Indonesian Superb Cassava Quoting from the linked website, my highlight added: “Our R&D team rides technology’s edge, bringing innovation for high yield cassava harvesting. Established in 2007, PT Bioenergy Bumi Hidayah focused on modern technology cassava cultivation method. Indonesian … Continue reading

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Modeling Duckweed Growth

Modeling duckweed growth in wastewater treatment systems Abstract Species of the genera Lemnaceae, or duckweeds, are floating aquatic plants that show great promise for both wastewater treatment and livestock feed production. Research conducted in the Southern High Plains of Texas … Continue reading

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Sustainable Management of Duckweed Biomass

Sustainable Management of Duckweed Biomass Grown for Nutrient Control in Municipal Wastewaters Duckweed molecular formula determination Chemical and elemental composition analysis of the duckweed was carried out by the Utah State University Analytical lab, Logan Utah and Huffman Lab, Colorado … Continue reading

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