week\'s assignment is Biomass Energy! The case studies are expected to be an ana
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week's assignment is Biomass Energy!
The case studies are expected to be an analysis of a renewable energy topic where the student researches the energy source and includes the following information in the paper:
1. How is the energy produced? Exactly how does the energy become a part of the electrical grid?
2. What are the pros and cons of the energy?
3. Draws conclusions about its feasibility as a US energy resource. In other words could this energy really be a major resource if we no longer had the option of oil? Also what is the economic viability (cost) of producing the energy? Please include actual cost data.
4. Students will end the case study with a paragraph on what they learned researching their topic.
Explanation / Answer
1)I am describing two methods to produce energy from biomass.
The first one is simply to burn biomass directly, heat water to steam, and sending it through a steam turbine, which then generates electricity.The second way requires gasification of biomass. A biomass gasifier takes dry biomass, such as agriculture waste, and with the absence of oxygen and high temperatures produces synthesis gas (CO + H2), also known as pyrolysis of biomass.
The gasification process turns wet biomass, such as food waste and manure, into methane (CH4) in a digestion tank. Both methane and synthesis gas (syngas) can be used in a gas engine or a gas turbine for electricity production.Biomass offers other significant environmental and consumer benefits, including improving forest health, protecting air quality, and offering the most dependable renewable energy source.
2)Pros of Biomass energy
It offers significant environmental and consumer benefits including improving forest help protecting air quality and offering the most dependable renewable energy source
Cons of Biomass energy
Pollution, Can lead to deforestation, require lots of space, expensive
3)Biomass fuels provided about 4 percent of the energy used in the United States in 2010. Of this about 46 percent was from wood and wood-derived biomass, 43 percent was from biofuels (mainly ethanol), and about 11 percent was from municipal waste.
4)Biomass energy is good for the environment and produces less pollution as compared to other fuels like Petrol, diesel etc.
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