The Substantial Need of Biomass Energy Biomass is considered as the organic and biological material that are used

to generate biofuels for energy production. Biomass crops are generally produced in nature through a process known as photosynthesis in which the energy of sun i.e solar energy is used by the living organisms and plants to produce sugars and carbohydrates. The energy produced by the burning of biomass materials is usually referred to as bioenergy. The biomass crops are particularly grown for the chief purpose of being used as biofuels and are known as dedicated energy crops. These energy crops are aimed to be utilized as carbon negative or even carbon neutral as possible. Distinctive solid biomass energy products include domestic wastes, wood and wood wastes, agricultural crops and wastes, peat, animal wastes and aquatic plants with the three main forms of biomass energy being Liquid Fuels (Ethanol, Biodiesel), Solid Biomass (Wood, Incineration) and Gaseous Fuels (Landfills, Methane). Nearly all types of combustible organic matter can be potentially used as a renewable energy source. This has led to an rising interest in the alternative forms of bioenergy technology. The raw biomass materials can be biochemically or chemically treated to convert them into the energy-rich fuel such as bioethanol, biofuel, biogas and biodiesel and biodiesel to name a few. Ever since the exploiting of fire many thousands of years ago, biomass has been extensively used in the home for cooking and heating purposes with the burning of biomass fuels to create heat being called combustion. Actually coal is just a fossilised form of biomass that has been densed over millions of years to create a concentrated source of energy. Then all fossil fuels, including oil, coal, and natural gas, are nothing more than the ancient forms of biomass instigating from the animal remains and dead plants. With advances in power plant management services and the applications of technology, it is now feasible to convert raw organic biomass known as feedstock, into the different forms of energy, including heat, electricity, liquid or gaseous fuels, and processed solid fuels. To generate electrical energy, the heat from the thermal combustion process is utilised to create steam, which in turn drives turbines to generate electricity. Most electrical generation of biomass is accomplished using the direct combustion. Today there is a substantial interest in the combustion of solid biomass as part of a procedure known as"cofiring". Cofiring is when the raw biomass feedstock in the form of compacted pellets or wood chips is mixed with the traditional fossil fuels in power plants for electricity creation. Pound-for-pound, biomass has a lesser energy content than that of the fossil fuels.

Thats why the cofiring process is usually accomplished by mixing biomass with the coal, but biomass can also be easily cofired with oil.