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Bhatatbook.com included a new report on “Global Biofuels Market: Opportunities, Emerging Technologies and Production” which gives details about the Biofuel and Bioenergy production.

Global Biofuels Market: Opportunities, Emerging Technologies and Production

This report is the most comprehensive treatment of the biofuels market available. Worldwide data is provided on biorefineries, conversion and separation technologies, manufacturing, research and development, organic biofuels, consumption, capacity, components and competition. ( http://www.bharatbook.com/Market-Research-Reports/Global-Biofuels-Market-Opportunities-Emerging-Technologies-and-Production.html )

This report delves into the global efforts to develop technologies that improve the refining processes associated with many different types of biofuels and its growing consumption among nations throughout the next few decades. Biofuel is expected to become a major renewable resource to produce fuel, electricity, heat, and other sources of power. To compete with other energy types will require development and implementation of an enhanced biorefinery process that minimizes its impact on local environments. Developing sustainable fractionation and separation technologies will be a key factor for the success of refining biomasses into renewable energy.

Biorefinery technology differs from traditional oil based refinery technology because it will be mainly water-based. Today’s biofuels involve either ethanol or diesel, with the former accounting for roughly 90 percent of the market. Brazil, the United States, and China are the greatest producers. More than half of the world’s bioethanol is generated from sugar cane; the rest comes mainly from corn. Biodiesel is mostly derived from rapeseed and sunflower.

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The oil crisis and world overdependence on fossil fuels have paved the way for new developments in alternative energy sources. One of these alternative sources is biomass, which certainly has the potential of being considered a good substitute for fossil fuel. Seeds of fortune are often planted in the throes of a crisis. Biomass may just be that seed of fortune you are looking for.

Biomass is a natural and renewable energy source that is derived from recently dead biological matter and is used as a biofuel. It usually comes from plants, but it also comes from animal matter and other agricultural biodegradable waste. Examples of plants that can be used as biomass are corn, sugar cane, wheat, and switchgrass. Waste matter from plants like coconut husks, rice hulls, and bagasse (waste from sugar cane) are also examples of biomass. However, biomass excludes organic material which has been transformed by geological processes into substances such as coal or petroleum. In general, biomass can be used in either raw form or some sort of modified, blended form.

Biomass works like this. It is burned to produce heat that makes hot water, which then produces steam that can power turbines. Since biomass is also carbon-based like traditional fossil fuel, it has a comparable burning rate that makes it suitable as an energy source for small-scale power generation. But unlike fossil fuels, biomass absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during its growing lifetime. After its life, the carbon in biomass recycles to the atmosphere as a mixture of CO2 and methane (CH4), depending on the ultimate fate of the biomass material. CH4 converts to CO2 in the atmosphere, completing the cycle. In contrast to biomass carbon, the carbon in fossil fuels is locked away in geological storage forever, unless extracted.

Biomass has become a popular alternative source of energy in farming areas and other areas where there is a huge amount of agricultural waste. Farmers have used biomass to power their equipment and for post-harvest processing of agricultural crops.

As an energy source, biomass has many applications depending on the type of material used, the location, and the processing that it has to undergo to make it usable. The simplest biomass application is agricultural fertilizers. Biomass materials can also be used for fiber or building material. Further chemical processing, such as hydrogenation, can produce a biomass that makes it a suitable fuel source. Biomass is also sometimes used for space heating applications.

Biomass is also scalable. Already there are biomass power plants operating with 11,000 megawatts (MW) installed capacity, representing the second largest amount of renewable energy in the United States, next to geothermal energy. These power plants burn wood and agricultural wood wastes. Aside from burning the biomass to produce heat, gases like methane can also be extracted, which can then be used as fuel for generators, turbines, and fuel cells.

Some environmentalists argue that biomass is part of the carbon cycle and as such emits greenhouse gases that contribute to global warning. That said, biomass emits 50% less than emissions from burning fossil fuel. Furthermore, the disadvantage of having carbon dioxide emission can be offset by the fact that biomass is often sourced from recycled waste materials, therefore significantly reducing solid waste. This helps to classify it as an efficient and cost-effective energy source.

In addition to this environmental concern, biomass raises another critical issue in the food vs. fuel debate. Some argue that using biomass for energy instead of using it as an edible food is unconscionable. This argument has been magnified by the more recent oil and food price crises, where critics point out that biomass could have helped create or at least magnify the rising cost of food staples. However, some studies suggest the amount of crops that go to biofuel production may not be significant enough to tip the food demand.

While the conversion to biomass fuels is probably inevitable, some are concerned about how the conversion will take place: The timing and cost of the conversion is still not clear. Also total direct and indirect costs and what groups benefit and which groups suffer are major concerns. With congressional leadership favoring an acceleration of greener energy in a way that benefits their constituents and lobbyists, the conversion to biomass will create winners and losers.

What the biomass discussion is pointing to is the urgency for industries to begin planning NOW for the inevitability of a greener world. Will you be prepared?

The central renewable energy advantages are the very fact that they are renewable. We won’t ever run out of supplies of renewable energy.

Solar energy – the sun will permanently be there, and in abundance – the amount of solar electricity intercepted by the Earth each minute is bigger than the amount of power the world uses in fossil fuels every year.

Wind energy – the wind will always be present – The power in the winds that blow across the U. S. Yearly could generate more than 16 billion GJ of electricity – more than one and one-half times the electricity consumed in the United States In 2000.

Tidal energy – the moon which supplies the forces that causes the tides will always be present

Hydroelectric energy – unless there is a drastic variation in rain patterns, it will always be there

On the other hand, non-renewable resources like traditional fules are limited – our resources of them will run out in the end.

A second renewable energy advantage, is that renewable energy is environmentally friendly. The reason being since they don’t give off CO2, the largest contributor to global temperature rises, into the atmosphere.

Non-renewable resources like petrol discharge CO2 into the atmosphere when they are used for creating power. Additional renewables such as biofuels are carbon neutral – producing them uses about as much CO2 as using them produces.

Renewable energy resources can be re-used and are straightforward to discover. But the non-renewable sources can not be used again.

Today any one, can construct their own renewable electricity generators at home and enjoy the advantages of renewable energy. A number of plans and guides now exist to show you how to construct a wind mill out of pvc pipes or a solar cell out of basic reflective glass and all for very little cost. Consider these renewable energy advantages for making the easy and reasonable switch to natural electricity.

One small wind mill can make the equivalent amount of natural electricity that synthetic and fossil sources do while putting out 5000 tons of CO2 simultaneously. Scientists virtually collectively agree that once the larger population of the earth welcomes renewable energy, we’ll begin to see a fast reversal of the greenhouse effect.

It is the Future and Builds For a Better Future. Natural and renewable energy advantages outnumber the application of traditional fules, and eventually we will have no choice but to use these natural supplies. Limited sources of fuel are quickly lessening as the energy crisis continues to bear down on us.

It’s Cost Effective and is simply the largest and most well-liked of the clean energy advantages is that it’s extremely cost effective. In the beginning, the average homeowner spends about $2500 each year on their electricity bills alone. Think of not relying on the power company for that electricity and instead selling back any exess renewable energy which you manufacture but don’t use in a given month to the power company for a profit.

To end with, do not overlook the substantial and generous tax breaks that the government, particularly now under the Obama government, hands out each year to those who embrace clean, natural energy.embrace clean, natural energy.

Lots of individuals do not realise that it is possible to use renewable energy such as solar power and wind power to produce sufficient electricity so that you could save as much as 80% of your normal electricity costs, in fact in a number of cases it is even viable to produce so much electricity that your are able to sell it back to the power company.

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Biofuels Market Set to Expand in Sweden

The biofuel industry in Sweden is all set to expand primarily due to the new legislation on energy and climate strategy passed by the Swedish parliament. The Swedish government intends to have its transport sector fossil fuel free by 2030. The government is also planning to introduce a new legislation which would make 10% bioethanol blending and 7% biodiesel blending mandatory by July, 2010. The European Parliament has mandated a minimum 10% blending target of biofuels with fossil fuels for the transportation sector by 2020. To achieve these ambitious objectives, numerous financial and tax incentives are being provided to boost the development of the biofuels industry in Sweden. This legislation is expected to usher in a new era of growth for the biofuels industry in Sweden and is thus expected to enable the country to have zero net carbon emissions by 2050. ( http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=109668&rt=Biofuels-Market-Set-to-Expand-in-Sweden.html )

Scope

- This report analyzes the key trends in the biofuels market in Sweden.

- market sizing information of the Sweden biofuels market

- analysis of drivers of the biofuel market in Sweden.

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Biofuels Market in China

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The rapidly developing Chinese biofuel market has been the hotspot in the past few years since the renewable biofuel is of great importance to relieve energy shortage in the future. To figure out the current situation and prospect of biofuel in China, this report widely covers information about feedstock and their production situation, competitive analysis, future forecast, governmental policies and main producers, etc. ( http://www.bharatbook.com/Market-Research-Reports/Biofuels-Market-in-China.html )

Owning to technology bottleneck and food security concern, biofuel production has encountered barriers, especially fuel ethanol production in China. At present, the second-generation biofuel, namely cellulosic fuel ethanol, has attracted the most attention. In China, most biofuel manufacturers are domestic enterprises and major fuel ethanol producers are large-size state-owned enterprises who have receive great support from the government, while some biodiesel producers are private manufacturers.

Biofuel industry in China is enjoying promising prospect and CCM provides you an insightful analysis on the following aspects.

* To provide an overview of biofuels industry in China;

* To survey current production situation of biofuels;

* To discuss the influence of governmental regulation on biofuels industry;

* To assess China’s technology level of biofuels production;

* To know the feedstocks of biofuels production;

* To find out drivers behind the development of biofuels;

* To understand the position of biofuels sector in China’s energy industry ;

* To forecast the future of China’s biofuels industry;

* To identify commercial opportunities in China’s biofuels market;

* To assess the key players of biofuels in China, including producers and end users.

   

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Why is it that stupid ideas find so many followers? European Governments, the US Federal Government, and an increasing number of US State Governments have issued legislation that requires the use of ethanol in cars.

Making ethanol from corn was promoted by the US agricultural lobby as the best approach for producing biofuels. None of the decision makers listened to the advice of scientists, who pointed out correctly, that the benefits of ethanol were minute. Ethanol is incapable of reducing consumption of petroleum-derived fuels and of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Almost all of the food producing acreage in the US must be converted to growing corn before a sizeable reduction in foreign petroleum imports can be expected.

For the agricultural lobby the financial rewards of the ethanol craze have been spectacular. When future prices of corn began to escalate, more and more farmers decided to plant corn in favor of other crops like soybean and wheat. Predictably, food prices started soaring.

Now we must deal with the sorry political mess that the ethanol subsidy of the US Federal Government has left behind. Poor countries have been hit hard with escalating prices for grains and other basic food staples. Protests are growing across the globe demanding price reductions or price controls. Demonstrations are stoking social unrest in many countries. Demands are growing to prohibit the production of biofuels altogether.

What originally began as an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and an attempt to reduce consumption of fossil fuels and petroleum, may instead be perceived as a worldwide failure of renewable biofuels. Such result would be unfortunate and ultimately disastrous.

We know for sure that petroleum reserves are getting scarce and will be depleted soon. We know for sure that global warming is caused by greenhouse gases produced by fossil fuel combustion. We know for sure that economies will begin to fail, when liquid motor fuels become scarce and unaffordable.

We must replace fossil petroleum sources with an alternate source for liquid fuels or world economies are doomed to fail and contract. Only biomass meets the requirements for such a new energy source. However, virtually all the biomass crops, which are being used, have one common shortcoming. Instead of using plants with exceptionally high energy yields, we are converting low-energy food crops into ethanol, a low-energy fuel.

Only high-energy crops can become the savior of our huge transportation sector. The wellbeing of this sector is absolutely vital for the continuing functioning of world economies. Famines will result if we convert instead low-energy food crops into liquid fuels. There are not enough arable lands on this Earth to provide food for an additional three billion people during the next fifty years and grow simultaneously sufficient amounts of low-energy biomass for replacing petroleum as source for liquid motor fuels.

Substitution of petroleum with motor fuels derived from coal or oil shale is not sensible, either. These synthetic fuels will increase greenhouse gas emissions and will accelerate global warming. Therefore, there remains only one single choice for securing the supply of affordable transportation fuels; we must learn to convert high-energy biomass into standard motor fuels.

This will involve the development of new approaches and new technologies for finding, breeding, and growing high-energy crops on fallow and arid lands. We must protect tropical and primal forests and we must assure that arable lands are sustained properly. Arable lands will become scarce and must be protected from exploitation.

The world has huge areas of deserts and arid lands with exceptionally high solar irradiation. We must learn to grow biomass with high-energy yields on these ignored and neglected lands. We must develop new irrigation and cultivating technologies for arid areas and we must learn how to achieve high-energy biomass harvests without excessive water use and without the wasteful and expensive fertilizer runoff.

High-energy plants need plenty of sunshine. We must breed new high-energy plant hybrids and we must develop new agricultural techniques that are effective under these adverse conditions. We must prevent exploitation of forests across the world and we must find ways to protect and preserve tropical and primal forests.

It is mandatory that we bring the recent inflationary wave of food prices under control soon. It is important that we prevent any speculative manipulation of grain prices and that we avoid any irrational reactions to this artificial food crisis.

Above all, we must not blame the concept of renewable biofuels for the artificially created food crisis. Liquid fuels from biomass are our only hope for simultaneously controlling global overheating and preventing hyperinflation of liquid fuel prices.

If we fail to succeed in this crucial and fateful endeavor, we must prepare the world for the collapse of world economies and the disappearance of civilizations.

Renewable Energy entrepreneurs are now looking for the best bioreactors with the right stuff. What is the right stuff you ask? Well it has to be a algae farm that meets a number of challenges: be affordable, scalable, able to handle variable temperatures at different client sites.

Low Cost of Implementation

The first area of concern is always the cost. As with all systems of a commercial scale, cost is king. The technology at this point has many faces to include row crops, large open pond systems, race way systems and photo-bioreactors. Thy system you choose must have nutrients to feed the algae, water and sunlight. Your carbon dioxide inputs can be active or ambient air. Cross contamination of the algae is a concern, but intended use of the algae will be your guide.

Continuous Harvesting

Harvesting the algae will always be a concern depending on the system. It will take more effort to harvest algae from an open pond system than it would from a continuous harvesting photo-bioreactors. Continuous harvesters do just that, always harvest algae cake, at this point you will only need staff to move the algae cake to the next stations for drying and oil extraction.

Oil Extraction

There are three well-known methods to extract the oil from oilseeds, and these methods apply equally well for algae too: 1. Expeller/Press

2. Hexane solvent oil extraction

3. Supercritical Fluid extraction Expeller/Press Expression/Expeller press-When algae is dried it retains its oil content, which then can be “pressed” out with an oil press. Many commercial manufacturers of vegetable oil use a combination of mechanical pressing and chemical solvents in extracting oil. While more efficient processes are emerging, a simple process is to use a press to extract a large percentage (70-75%) of the oils out of algae. Hexane Solvent Method Algal oil can be extracted using chemicals. Benzene and ether have been used, but a popular chemical for solvent extraction is hexane, which is relatively inexpensive. Supercritical Fluid Method Supercritical extraction involves, pressure and heat to burst algal cell walls.

No matter what algae medium you chose just make sure it meets your needs and production goals.

Algae Biofuel will play a very important part in meeting the worlds growing energy need, Algae has a place in not only our past, but in our future as well.