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Genera Energy Introduces Energy Grange™ – A Proprietary Feedstock Management Systems

Genera’s proprietary Energy Grange™ management system, is designed to select the appropriate acreage, select the most economical crops for a project, contract the best seed, recruit and lease the land for increments of five to 10 years, and establish and manage high yielding crops, all of which aim to reduce price fluctuation and set long-term [...]

The Importance of Continuous Yield Monitoring

The final yield tally after dedicated energy crops are harvested gets a majority of the attention when evaluating these crops. Standing next to 12 foot tall grass and realizing big yields once the crops are harvested is always impressive, but Genera Energy appreciates the importance of waist high grass during the spring season as well. [...]

2017-01-07T17:22:19+00:00Feedstock Production|

Lignin’s Squeal Appeal

If you hang out with chemists very often, you’re bound to hear one of their favorite witty wisecracks about lignin at some point: “You can make absolutely anything out of lignin … except money.” This full of potential yet still scorned complex polymer, lignin, is nature’s glue filling up spaces in plant cell walls, helping [...]

2017-01-07T17:22:20+00:00Feedstock Production|

Biomass Washing and Screening: Removing Impurities From Feedstocks

Biomass is an environmentally clean alternative for producing fuels, chemicals, and bioproducts. Why then do we hear about cleaning or even washing biomass on occasion? Last week, I helped my wife preserve some of the bounty of our garden by canning bushels of tomatoes. There is nothing like fresh vegetables out of the garden. When I [...]

Short Rotation Woody Crops

Short rotation woody crops are woody tree species that have been bred and selected to have extremely high rates of growth, allowing them to be harvested after a short growing period. They are an ideal feedstock component for biomass supply chains. While many hardwood species have full management rotations that may approach 50 years or [...]

2014-07-17T09:00:33+00:00Feedstock Production|

Round Bales, Square Bales, Field Chop . . . Which is Best?

Tough decisions would be made much simpler if the answers were always black and white. Unfortunately, managing a biomass supply chain does not always afford the luxuries of clear-cut decision making. We often get asked which feedstock delivery package is best; round bales, square bales, or field chopped material. It is not our intention to [...]

Sustainably Produced Biomass

Webster’s Dictionary defines the word “sustainable” as an adjective that means a resource is “able to be used without being completely used up or destroyed.” In agricultural and environmental circles, defining what constitutes a sustainable crop or practices is much more difficult to define. To the consumer, the basic tenants of producing agricultural crops that [...]

Water Quality Monitoring for Industrial Operations

As part of its normal operations, Genera Energy, like any other industrial installation, is required to operate under the Tennessee Storm Water Multi-Sector General Permit for Industrial Activities. This permit requires companies to create a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan that identifies potential sources for pollutants and best management practices to help mitigate these risks. [...]

Quality Control and Monitoring Systems

We at Genera Energy understand that biofuels are a renewable energy source that can minimize the United States’ dependency on imported petroleum and improve the domestic economy. Systems for producing, harvesting, collecting, preprocessing, storing, and transporting diverse forms of biomass can operate more efficiently if the biomass they process is uniform and consistent in terms [...]

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