The Impact of Biomass on the Environment
• Helps reduce waste and it helps with waste management. By using waste, we prevent it from burdening our landfills, or being left to decay.
• Burning biomass releases carbon dioxide (CO2) (a greenhouse gas), but when the plants that are the source of biomass are grown, a nearly equivalent amount of CO2 is captured through photosynthesis. In other words, biomass is carbon neutral
• There are quite a few ways and methods to generate biomass energy, and some of them don't produce harmful CO2 emissions
• There are quite a few ways and methods to generate biomass energy, and some of them don't produce harmful CO2 emissions
• Biomass energy does not produce sulfur or mercury emissions, and produces much less nitrogen than coal does. This means that biomass energy reduces acid rain, smog and other pollutants in the air when compared to coal.
• You can't generate biomass energy in a small area because the biomass gets burned and may get in someone or something's way.
• High-temperature incinerators are friendly to air quality. The high temperature ensures that toxic pollutants are safely destroyed. Countries that have used this method (eg. Sweden), say that it has been proven to give exceptional performance with high availability levels meeting all legal pollution requirements.
• Even with this protection, just to make sure, there are a few high-tech pollution controls that are used.
Here Are A Few Examples Of These Pollution Controls:
• You can't generate biomass energy in a small area because the biomass gets burned and may get in someone or something's way.
• High-temperature incinerators are friendly to air quality. The high temperature ensures that toxic pollutants are safely destroyed. Countries that have used this method (eg. Sweden), say that it has been proven to give exceptional performance with high availability levels meeting all legal pollution requirements.
• Even with this protection, just to make sure, there are a few high-tech pollution controls that are used.
Here Are A Few Examples Of These Pollution Controls:
- A baghouse, which is an air pollution control device that removes particulates out of air or gas (Particulates are a mixture of extremely small particles and liquid droplets that get into the air. They are unsafe.)
- Carbon injections, which are used as an effective and cost efficient way to reduce heavy metals, dioxins and furans, by absorbing them.
- The addition of lime to neutralize acid gases
- Computer systems closely monitor pollution levels to make sure they remain as low as possible.