Links

• AGES/Thermix - Overview of various systems that waste materials in integrated approaches to produce energy.
• Biomass Action Plan (European Commission) - This links to the European Commission's biomass and biofuels plans.
• The BC International Corporation of Jennings, Louisiana, is the world’s first commercial facility for manufacturing ethanol from sugar cane wastes. The project, which involves the U.S. Department of Energy, is retrofitting a former petroleum refinery that was more recently used as a molasses-to-ethanol plant.
• Beef in Your Tank, Beef magazine, 2006 - Describes how Argent Group, a Scottish rendering company in the United Kingdom, combines beef tallow with used cooking oil to produce high-value biodiesel as well as fertilizer, glycerin, and British-grade heating oil.   
• Bioenergy Information Network - This site provides examples of how switchgrass is being tested as a biofuel that could be grown by farmers.
• Biofuels, NAL, USDA.
• Biomass Research & Development Initiative, U.S. Department of Energy - The Biomass Initiative is a multi-agency effort to coordinate all federal bio-based products and bioenergy research.
• Biomass Statistics, Iowa Public Television.
• The Chariton Valley Biomass Project in Southern Iowa involves a group of about 60 switchgrass growers. In addition to studying switchgrass as an alternative energy crop, the producer group, Prairie Lands Bio-Products, Inc., is looking at other products and markets derived from the plant, such as paper, fiberboard, mulch, and logs.

• Clean and Diversified Energy Initiative, Biomass Task Force Report, Western Governors' Association, 2006.

• Corn Stover for Bioethanol – Your New Cash Crop?, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2001 - This article discusses the benefits and possibilities of harvesting and converting corn stover into ethanol.

• The Corn Stover Collection Project was a pilot project by the U.S. Department of Energy that examined the feasibility of collecting corn stover for processing ethanol. A corn stover facility was built in Harlan, Iowa, and 440 corn growers contracted about 50,000 acres.

• Determining the Cost of Producing Ethanol from Corn Starch and Lignocellulosic Feedstocks, Joint study sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Energy 2000 - This government study looked at two possible ethanol-producing processes: one using corn starch and the other using lignocellulose.
• DOE and USDA Award $25 Million in Joint Biomass Research and Development Initiative, 2004.

• Earth Pals, Ag Marketing Resource Center, December 2003 - Kansas group making their own compost.

• Environmental Issue Overview, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2001 - Abstract of a technical report on the environmental issues related to biomass use for energy or industrial product development.

• Grass for Biomass Project Fires Up, Hay & Forage Grower, 2002 - This article provides an overview of preliminary research findings on the Chariton Valley Biomass Project in Iowa.

• Manure Digestion System, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute - This site provides an overview of a manure digester, including a description, benefits and costs.

• Northeastern California Ethanol Manufacturing Feasibility Study, Quincy Library Group, 1997 - The U.S. Department of Energy’s Biofuels Program joined with the Quincy Library Group of Northern California to conduct an ethanol feasibility study. The study examined the effects of thinning two national forests and converting the wood into ethanol.

• NREL Biomass Program Overview - The Biomass Program supports National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) research and development that focuses on biomass characterization, thermochemical, and biochemical biomass conversion technologies, bio-based products development, and biomass process engineering and analysis.

• Oregon Cellulose Ethanol Study, Oregon Office of Energy, 2000 - This ethanol research evaluated the near-term potential of a cellulose-based ethanol industry in Oregon.

• Stirling Energy - A private company developing clean, cost-effective, efficient energy from renewable resources including solar, wind, biogas and hydrogen.

• Synergism Between Agricultural and Energy Policy: The Case of Dedicated Bioenergy Crops, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, 2001 - This biomass research study indicates what crop prices and programs would do if more acres were planted in switchgrass.

• Thermix Systems - Overview of a new system that uses hog manure in an integrated approach.
  The system produces a fine dry powder that exhibits excellent combustion properties.

• Western Regional Biomass Energy Program

Links checked February 2008.