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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Many years ago I was working in a corn processing facility and the company was very comfortable with the material handling of corn and several other products. For the most part, you put in a well sloped cylindrical cone bottom in storage bins and mechanically conveyed with belts and conveyors. Materials dropped and flowed well. [...]
Intellectual property is generally a company’s intangible creations of the mind. It consists of anything from processes, products, trade secrets, customer lists, inventions, names, or creative writings. Intellectual property for many companies may be as much if not more valuable than its physical assets. Because of the very nature of these intangible assets, protection of [...]
“We are shutting down the processing line because we have an equipment failure.” These are some of the most dreaded words in production businesses. If you’re down for an equipment, it can cost precious time, resources, and above all, potential revenue and profit! Equipment shutdowns prevent companies from meeting the needs of their customers and [...]
One of the primary concerns that many in the biomass processing world focus on is flowability of biomass feedstocks. Flowability is a measure of how well material flows from point A to point B in a biomass processing system. Material flowability issues include things as simple as reduced rates of flow, but could also include [...]
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