Biomass to liquid

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Biomass to liquid (BTL) is a (multi step) process to produce liquid biofuels from biomass:

The process uses the whole plant to improve the CO2 balance and increase yield.

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Renewable energy
  • Biofuels
  • Biomass
  • Geothermal power
  • Hydro power
  • Solar power
  • Tidal power
  • Wave power
  • Wind power
Biofuel (also called agrofuel[1]
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Biomass refers to living and recently dead biological material which can be used as fuel or for industrial production.
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The Fischer-Tropsch process is a catalyzed chemical reaction in which carbon monoxide and hydrogen are converted into liquid hydrocarbons of various forms. Typical catalysts used are based on iron and cobalt.
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Synthetic fuel or synfuel is any liquid fuel obtained from coal, natural gas, or biomass. It can sometimes refer to fuels derived from other solids such as oil shale, tar sand, waste plastics, or from the fermentation of biomatter.
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Gasification is a process that converts carbonaceous materials, such as coal, petroleum, or biomass, into carbon monoxide and hydrogen by reacting the raw material at high temperatures with a controlled amount of oxygen.
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Biodiesel refers to a diesel-equivalent processed fuel derived from biological sources (such as vegetable oils) which can be used in unmodified diesel-engine vehicles. It is distinguished from the straight vegetable oils (SVO) or waste vegetable oils (WVO) used as fuels in some
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Environmental technology
  • Air pollution control
  • Biofuel
  • Composting
  • Conservation biology
  • Conservation ethic
  • Ecoforestry
  • Energy conservation
  • Energy development
  • Environmental design
  • Environmental impact assessment

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Plantae
Haeckel, 1866[1]

Divisions

Green algae
  • Chlorophyta
  • Charophyta
Land plants (embryophytes)
  • Non-vascular land plants (bryophytes)

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The acronym OIL can refer to:
  • Output Input Language
  • Office of Infrastructure and Logistics - Luxembourg
  • Ontology Inference Layer or Ontology Interchange Language, an Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web.
  • Oil India Limited.

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Sugars, brown
Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy 0 kcal   0 kJ

Carbohydrates     97.33 g
- Sugars  96.21 g
- Dietary fiber  0 g  
Fat 0 g
Protein 0 g
Water 1.77 g
Thiamin (Vit. B1)  0.
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Starch (CAS# 9005-25-8, chemical formula (C6H10O5)n,[1]) is a mixture of amylose and amylopectin (usually in 20:80 or 30:70 ratios).
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Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula (C6H10O5)n. It is a structural polysaccharide derived from beta-glucose.[1][2] Cellulose is the primary structural component of green plants.
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Gasification is a process that converts carbonaceous materials, such as coal, petroleum, or biomass, into carbon monoxide and hydrogen by reacting the raw material at high temperatures with a controlled amount of oxygen.
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Biodiesel refers to a diesel-equivalent processed fuel derived from biological sources (such as vegetable oils) which can be used in unmodified diesel-engine vehicles. It is distinguished from the straight vegetable oils (SVO) or waste vegetable oils (WVO) used as fuels in some
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Hydrogenation is a class of chemical reactions which result in an addition of hydrogen (H2) usually to unsaturated organic compounds. Typical substrates include alkenes, alkynes, ketones, nitriles, and imines.
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Types of Fats in Food
  • Unsaturated fat
  • Monounsaturated fat
  • Polyunsaturated fat
  • Trans fat
  • Omega: 3, 6, 9

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Vegetable fats and oils are substances derived from plants that are composed of triglycerides. Nominally, oils are liquid at room temperature, and fats are solid; a dense brittle fat is called a wax.
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Alkanes, also known as Paraffins, are chemical compounds that consist only of the elements carbon (C) and hydrogen (H) (i.e. hydrocarbons), where each of these atoms are linked together exclusively by single bonds (i.e. they are saturated compounds) without any cyclic structure (i.
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Neste Oil

Public – Oyj
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Founded 2004
Headquarters Espoo, Finland

Key people Risto Rinne, CEO
Industry Energy
Products Fuel- and oil products
Revenue 12,734 billion EUR (2006)
Employees 4,740 (2006)
Website www.nesteoil.
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It may contain preliminary information that does not reflect the final version of the product.

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Pyrolysis is the chemical decomposition of organic materials by heating in the absence of oxygen or any other reagents, except possibly steam.

It is used in chemical analysis to break down complex matter into simpler molecules for identification, for example by pyrolysis gas
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Pyrolysis is the chemical decomposition of organic materials by heating in the absence of oxygen or any other reagents, except possibly steam.

It is used in chemical analysis to break down complex matter into simpler molecules for identification, for example by pyrolysis gas
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Char may refer to:
  • Char may refer to four (Roman: 4), Hindi: Ek, Do, Tin, Char
  • Character (computing), a data type in many programming languages that is often referred to by its keyword "char"
  • CHAR-FM, Canadian radio station based out of CFS Alert, Nunavut.

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catalysis is the acceleration (increase in rate) of a chemical reaction by means of a substance called a catalyst, which is itself not consumed by the overall reaction.
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alkene polymerisation, in which each Styrene monomer unit's double bond reforms as a single bond with another styrene monomer and forms polystyrene.]] In polymer chemistry, polymerization
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hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon. With relation to chemical terminology, aromatic hydrocarbons or arenes, alkanes, alkenes and alkyne-based compounds composed entirely of carbon or hydrogen are referred to as "Pure" hydrocarbons, whereas
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The bioconversion of biomass to mixed alcohol fuels can be accomplished using the MixAlco process. Through bioconversion of biomass to a mixed alcohol fuel, more energy from the biomass will end up as liquid fuels than in converting biomass to ethanol by yeast fermentation.
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2,5-Dimethylfuran is a heterocyclic compound of the formula C6H8O. A derivative of furan, it is also known by its abbreviation DMF, not to be confused with dimethylformamide. Recent advances have increased its attractiveness as a biofuel.
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Gas to liquids or GTL is a refinery process to convert natural gas or other gaseous hydrocarbons into longer-chain hydrocarbons. Methane-rich gases are converted into liquid fuels either via direct conversion or via syngas as an intermediate, for example using the Fischer
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Gasification is a process that converts carbonaceous materials, such as coal, petroleum, or biomass, into carbon monoxide and hydrogen by reacting the raw material at high temperatures with a controlled amount of oxygen.
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