page_title: Bioenergy
hierarchical_section_title: Bioenergy
caption_attribution_description: English: Copied from en.wiki Original caption is as follows: A Stirling engine and induction generator set. This is a 55 kW (electrical) generator set for combined heat and power applications. The total enclosure length is about 2.5 metres, and this assembly has a mass of about 1300 kg. At the right side is the combustion chamber and heat exchanger. The four-cylinder regenerative Stirling engine is adjacent to the combustor, with the swash-plate drive housing obscured by the center post of the enclosure. At the left of the picture is a 55 kW induction motor used as a generator and to start the Stirling engine. Below the induction generator terminal box (black cable going to left) is an electrolyzer used to replenish the hydrogen gas working fluid of the engine. To the right of the electrolyzer is a small blower to force combustion air into the burner assembly. The blue hoses circulate cooling water through the cool-side heat exchanger - a hose connection point for cooling water is just above at the right end of the induction generator. The Stirling engine/generator set shown here is made by STM Power Inc. and is intended for auxiliary power and heat production at large farms, or for plants that produce waste flammable oils. This engine can also be adapted to run on low-heat-value landfill gas or biofuel digester gas. A photo I (user Wtshymanski) took and that I release to the public domain.
context_page_description: Bioenergy is renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological sources. Biomass is any organic material which has stored sunlight in the form of chemical energy. As a fuel it may include wood, wood waste, straw, and other crop residues, manure, sugarcane, and many other by-products from a variety of agricultural processes. By 2010, there was 35 GW of globally installed bioenergy capacity for electricity generation, of which 7 GW was in the United States.
  In its most narrow sense it is a synonym to biofuel, which is fuel derived from biological sources. In its broader sense it includes biomass, the biological material used as a biofuel, as well as the social, economic, scientific and technical fields associated with using biological sources for energy. This is a common misconception, as bioenergy is the energy extracted from the biomass, as the biomass is the fuel and the bioenergy is the energy contained in the fuel
  There is a slight tendency for the word bioenergy to be favoured in Europe compared with biofuel in America.
context_section_description: Bioenergy is renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological sources. Biomass is any organic material which has stored sunlight in the form of chemical energy.  As a fuel it may include wood, wood waste, straw,  and other crop residues, manure, sugarcane, and many other by-products from a variety of agricultural processes. By 2010, there was 35 GW (47,000,000 hp) of globally installed bioenergy capacity for electricity generation, of which 7 GW (9,400,000 hp) was in the United States.
  In its most narrow sense it is a synonym to biofuel, which is fuel derived from biological sources. In its broader sense it includes biomass, the biological material used as a biofuel, as well as the social, economic, scientific and technical fields associated with using biological sources for energy. This is a common misconception, as bioenergy is the energy extracted from the biomass, as the biomass is the fuel and the bioenergy is the energy contained in the fuel
  There is a slight tendency for the word bioenergy to be favoured in Europe compared with biofuel in America.
caption: A Stirling engine capable of producing electricity from biomass combustion heat
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