Look up biomass in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Biomass is a term used in several contexts: in the context of ecology it means living organisms, and...

Biomass is the mass of living biological organisms in a given area or ecosystem at a given time. Biomass can refer to species biomass, which is the mass...

In the context of energy production, biomass is matter from recently living (but now dead) organisms which is used for bioenergy production. Examples...

Biomass is an Earth observing satellite planned for launch by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2025 from Kourou, French Guiana on a on a Vega-C launch...

the biomass or bioproductivity at each trophic level in an ecosystem. A pyramid of energy shows how much energy is retained in the form of new biomass from...

of renewable energy that is derived from plants and animal waste. The biomass that is used as input materials consists of recently living (but now dead)...

Lignocellulose refers to plant dry matter (biomass), so called lignocellulosic biomass. It is the most abundantly available raw material on the Earth...

Biomass briquettes are a biofuel substitute made of biodegradable green waste with lower emissions of greenhouses gases and carbon dioxide than traditional...

Biomass partitioning is the process by which plants divide their energy among their leaves, stems, roots, and reproductive parts. These four main components...

the woods Biofuel is a fuel that is produced over a short time span from biomass, rather than by the very slow natural processes involved in the formation...

Biomass to liquid (BtL or BMtL) is a multi-step process of producing synthetic hydrocarbon fuels made from biomass via a thermochemical route. According...

Drax power station is a large biomass power station in Drax, North Yorkshire, England. It has a 2.6 GW capacity for biomass and had a 1.29 GW capacity for...

capture and storage (BECCS) is the process of extracting bioenergy from biomass and capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) that is produced. Greenhouse...

Gasification is a process that converts biomass- or fossil fuel-based carbonaceous materials into gases, including as the largest fractions: nitrogen...

material. Pellets can be made from any one of five general categories of biomass: industrial waste and co-products, food waste, agricultural residues, energy...

spelled briquet) is a compressed block of coal dust or other combustible biomass material (e.g. charcoal, sawdust, wood chips, peat, or paper) used for...

Biomass allocation is a concept in plant biology which indicates the relative proportion of plant biomass present in the different organs of a plant....

use can only be accomplished by using genetically modified crops. Solid biomass, often pelletized, is used for combustion in thermal power stations, either...

Torrefaction of biomass, e.g., wood or grain, is a mild form of pyrolysis at temperatures typically between 200 and 320 °C. Torrefaction changes biomass properties...

(formerly known as AEBIOM) is a European trade association open to national biomass associations and bioenergy companies active in Europe. It was founded in...

waste or biomass in rural areas to uplift rural economy and job potential. With these plants, the non-edible biomass or waste of edible biomass is converted...

Biomass heating systems generate heat from biomass. The systems may use direct combustion, gasification, combined heat and power (CHP), anaerobic digestion...

use with biomass where surplus agriculture/crop residue biomass is burnt in the fields causing pollution problems. As traditional use of biomass is being...

indoor air pollution). The major sources of NMVOCs include vegetation, biomass burning, geogenic sources, and human activity. The study of NMVOCs is important...

The Czech Biomass Association (CZ Biom - Czech: České sdružení pro biomasu) is a NGO, which supports the development of phytoenergetics (energy from plant...

The Šiauliai Biomass Power Plant is a biomass combined heat and power plant in Šiauliai, Lithuania. It supplies heat to almost half of Šiauliai and creates...

A nonfood crop, also known as industrial crop, is a crop grown to produce goods for manufacturing, for example fibre for clothing, rather than food for...

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy...

organisms, but given their generally much larger size, their collective global biomass is much larger than that of prokaryotes. The eukaryotes seemingly emerged...

in biomass, so energy pyramids can also be viewed as biomass pyramids, picturing the amount of biomass that results at higher levels from biomass consumed...