Category: General

Allocation of Energy Use in Petroleum Refineries to Petroleum Products

This article presents a petroleum refinery-process-based approach to allocating energy use in a petroleum refinery to petroleum refinery products according to mass, energy content, and market value share of final and intermediate petroleum products as they flow through refining processes within a refinery.
Follow this link to learn more: http://www.transportation.anl.gov/pdfs/TA/636.PDF

Wood Science 101(3) – Lignin

You’d be hard pressed to find a material more universally researched right now than lignin. It’s the second most abundant organic polymer on earth, behind cellulose. It’s what makes trees stand upright, what makes wood hold its shape, and what makes furniture support your weight when you sit on it. Lignin is everywhere in the biological realm, plays a huge part in maintaining the earth’s carbon cycle, and therefore, the environmental stability of the world, and is still one of the primary foci of the world’s scientific community.
Follow this link to learn more: http://gowood.blogspot.com/2012/02/wood-science-1013-lignin.html

Renewable Fuel Standard Program (RFS2) Regulatory Impact Analysis

Revisions of the Renewable Fuel Standard Program for the implementation of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
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