Carbon Fiber from Biomass

Next breakthrough: carbon fiber from Biomass. En route to a totally sustainable airplane! The Energy Department of the U.S.(DOE) recently announced up to $12 million in funding to advance the production of cost-competitive, high-performance carbon fiber material from renewable non-food-based feedstocks such as agricultural and forestry residues.

We suggest that some of the furfural by-products should be considered. There are a variety of avenues that lead to e.g. thermoset-resin-biofiber composites or high-temperature polymers.

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Next breakthrough:  carbon fiber from Biomass. En route to a totally sustainable airplane!

Carbon Fiber Biomass

The Energy Department of the U.S.(DOE) recently announced up to $12 million in funding to advance the production of cost-competitive, high-performance carbon fiber material from renewable non-food-based feedstocks such as agricultural and forestry residues.

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Forecasted Bioplastics Industry Growth

The impact of these trends could see the furfural market grow to twice its current size. For Africa, biomass valorisation means food security and jobs (e.g. greenenergypark.co.za/bio-refining)!

Bioplastics News

The global bio-plastics industry is expected to witness significant growth and reach an estimated $7.02 billion by 2018

Lucintel, one of the leading global management consulting and market research firms, has just  released a detailed analysis on the bio-plastics industry entitles “Global Bio-plastics Industry 2013-2018: Trend, Forecast, and Opportunity Analysis”.

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Potential to produce bio-plastics from poplar trees

Bio-based products such as bio-plastics are used in the cosmetics industry by a number of leading brands in their packaging .. GreenEnergyPark™'s insight: Coal and oil are nothing but fossilised biomass ... why is it surprising that fresh biomass could be used to replace products made from oil/coal/gas? E.g. Polyethylene is already successfully made from…Read more Potential to produce bio-plastics from poplar trees

Biomass & Furfural

Biomass suitable for furfural production GreenEnergyPark™'s insight: During our 10 years of furfural process R&D, we tested and characterised a large variety of biomass .. solid biomass as well as 'liquid' biomass See on http://www.dalinyebo.com via Scoop.it - Biorenewable Chemicals & Energy    

Furfural & CHP

See on Scoop.it - Biorenewable Chemicals & Energy Biomass is the simplest form of (sun) energy storage. Besides the use of its sugars or grains in our food chain, the biomass accumulated at agri-proce...GreenEnergyPark™'s insight:CPH&F: Combined Heat, Power and Furfural plants turn sun-energy into green profit!See on http://www.dalinyebo.com

What can ‘frugal innovation’ do for development?

The idea of finding simple, robust ways to tackle the world’s problems is growing in popularity .." See on http://www.scidev.net, via  Scoop.it - Biorenewable Chemicals & Energy

Record temperatures set to reach tropics first

Up to five billion people may be living with never-experienced-before temperatures by 2050, a study finds. See on http://www.scidev.net from  Scoop.it - Biorenewable Chemicals & Energy

Food security: Facts and figures – SciDev.Net

Food security is deeply connected to other development challenges and poor health. Michael Hoevel traces the links.GreenEnergyPark™'s insight: One of the consequences of biomass processing (of the NON-FOOD part of the crop) is the generation of extra revenu for the farmers, thus cross-subsidising the food production. See on http://www.scidev.netfrom Scoop.it - Biorenewable Chemicals & Energy

Ethanol: Clean Energy Or The Source Of New Environmental Concerns?

The agricultural industry has reaped the rewards of laws requiring ethanol cultivation, but now the environmental ramifications are causing second thoughts. (Ethanol: Clean Energy Or The Source Of New Environmental ... GreenEnergyPark™'s insight: That is why we advocate the use e.g. cobs or husks from existing food-chain residues. A biobased-economy has to understand soil conditions.…Read more Ethanol: Clean Energy Or The Source Of New Environmental Concerns?

Bioenergy as an obstacle to biobased chemicals

  Wood pellets can better be processed to biobased chemicals than being incinerated: better price, less GHG emissions. Subsidy and quota schemes have clearly influenced biomass prices. In Germany for instance, wood pellet prices rose from 45 €/ton in 2003 to 90 €/ton in 2010. In Finland as well, pellet prices doubled in this period.…Read more Bioenergy as an obstacle to biobased chemicals