This interesting article just came across my desk. It presents research and advancements in the area of Biomass pyrolysis and char sequestration. See the story below.

Energy Generation from Biomass is one of the technologies that is being developed as a significant contributor to the renewable energy mix in developing countries and countries with high agricultural waste products that can be feed stocks. India is spending a great deal of effort and research in this area due to its sizable off-grid population in rural agricultural areas.

In more developed countries and regions, its also being seen as an effective co-generation technology for using the waste materials from agriculture and food process industries.

MIT Tech review Extract: ‘a new research paper published online in the journal Biomass and Bioenergy argues that the battle against global warming may be better served by instead heating the biomass in an oxygen-starved process called pyrolysis, extracting methane, hydrogen, and other by-products for combustion, and burying the resulting carbon-rich char’ full story

Nick Bruse

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