Renewable Energy

RENEWABLE ENERGY

Renewable Energy film

Biomass

Aim: To compare the amount of gas that is produced from different types of biomass.

Material:

1. 3 Bottles  
2.   Permanent Marker
3.   Disposable Gloves
4.   1 Cup
5.   Fresh Horse Manure
6.   Mashed Banana
7.  Funnel
8.  Water
9. Balloons
10. Vegetable Peelings

Steps:

1.   Label All 3 Bottles
2.   Manure
3. Manure And Vegetable Peelings 
4.  Manure And Mashed Banana
5.  Place 1 Cup Of Manure In The Manure Bottle  
6.   Place 1 Cup Of Manure And Vegetable peelings In The Bottle with vegetable peelings as the label
7.  Place 1 Cup Of Manure And Mashed Banana In The Bottle with mashed banana as the label
8.  Fill The Bottle With Water (Not All The Way)
9. Place A Balloon On The Top

   

Investigation.

Research the following Biomass fuels. You will need to:

Write a definition of the fuel.

Write 8 sentences about the fuel. 

• How is it made? 
• Where is it made? 
• What is it made with? 
• What countries use it? 
• What uses will it have in the future?  

Place 1 image of the fuel.

Biomass Fuel types.

Name: Agricultural crops and wood fuels.

Definition:

the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.

• How is it made?grown
• Where is it made?New Zealand
• What is it made with? gas
• What countries use it? Russia , United States of America and New Zealand
• What uses will it have in the future?  it is better to use fast-growing plantation

Name: Animal waste.

Definition:

food they have eaten and produced into manure/poo

Research:Over time, bacteria convert the manure from solid waste into liquid waste, which produces methane gas.

Name: Bio gas

Definition:

gaseous fuel, especially methane, produced by the fermentation of organic matter.

Research: Bio Gas is produced by agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material, sewage, green waste or food waste.

Name: Bio fuels

Definition:

a fuel derived immediately from living matter.

Research:Ethanol is produced from biomass mostly via a fermentation process using glucose derived from sugars
On an industrial scale, methanol is predominantly produced from natural gas by reforming the gas with steam and then converting and distilling the resulting synthesised gas mixture.