Bioenergy

Bioenergy

Energy produced from biomass or organic matter. Biomass may either be burned directly or converted into liquids or gaseous fuel.

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offsets

Energy; Bioenergy

Includes carbon offsets, wildlife offsets, etc.

Industrial ecology is the shifting of industrial process from linear (open loop) systems, in which resource and capital investments move through the system to become waste, to a closed loop system ...

spark-ignition engines

Energy; Bioenergy

Internal combustion engines that use an electronic spark from a spark plug to ignite a compressed mixture of fuel and air.

straight vegetable oil (SVO)

Energy; Bioenergy

Known as Pure plant oil (PPO) in the European Union, SVO refers to either virgin or waste vegetable oils used to fuel diesel engines. While some diesel engines can run on SVO without modification, ...

potassium hydroxide

Energy; Bioenergy

Chemical symbol: KOH. It is a catalyst used with rapeseed oil in the process of transesterification to create rapeseed methyl ester (RME), a biodiesel fuel.

caustic potash

Energy; Bioenergy

Chemical symbol: KOH. It is a catalyst used with rapeseed oil in the process of transesterification to create rapeseed methyl ester (RME), a biodiesel fuel.