[Gasification] Gasification Digest, Vol 12, Issue 14

David Coote dccoote at mira.net
Sun Aug 21 17:34:45 CDT 2011


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> Today's Topics:
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>     1. How much ton of biomass will burn to produce 1 ton of CO2?
>        (A.Saravanakumar)
>     2. Re: CO2 emission of whole system for smaall size generator
>        (20kWe) (GF)
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> Dear Booster Reed,
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> How much ton of biomass will burn to produce 1 ton of CO2?
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> A. Saravanakumar
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If you look at the documents at this link:

http://www.climatechange.gov.au/publications/greenhouse-acctg/national-greenhouse-factors.aspx

you can see the greenhouse emissions factors published by the Australian 
Government.

Table 1 has numbers for solid wood.

Wood is generally regarded as carbon neutral when used for combustion as 
long as the wood has come from a sustainably managed source ie there are 
replacement trees growing to slurp up the carbon dioxide released by 
combustion.

Cheers

David






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