{"id":3921,"date":"2023-07-05T14:45:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T14:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ernestohernandez.org\/?p=3921"},"modified":"2023-09-07T12:38:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:38:33","slug":"elements-on-your-skin-food-mobile-phone-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ernestohernandez.org\/?p=3921","title":{"rendered":"Biomass Characterization by SEM-EDX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Climate change concerns and the post COVID world need urgent solutions to develop sustainable societies with better energy, products and services<strong><sup> <\/sup><\/strong><strong><sup>1<\/sup><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biomass could help but its chemical properties must be known in faster ways<strong><sup>2<\/sup><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our work delivered a faster and reliable method for elemental analyses of biomass with Scanning Electron Microscopy coupled to Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:10px\">1. United Nations (2015). Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. [online] United Nations. (Accessed on 10 May 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:10px\">2. Biswas, B., Krishna, B. B., Kumar, M. K., Sukumaran, R. K. &amp; Bhaskar, T. Chapter 7 &#8211; Biomass characterization. in <em>Advanced Biofuel Technologies<\/em> (eds. Tuli, D., Kasture, S. &amp; Kuila, A.) 151\u2013175 (Elsevier, 2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change concerns and the post COVID world need urgent solutions to develop sustainable societies with better energy, products and services 1. Biomass could help but its chemical properties must be known in faster ways2. Our work delivered a faster and reliable method for elemental analyses of biomass with Scanning Electron Microscopy coupled to Energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[101,12,45],"tags":[102,8,7,67,32,43,68],"class_list":["post-3921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytical-chemistry","category-news","category-research","tag-analytic-chemistry","tag-bioenergy","tag-biofuels","tag-biomas","tag-bioprocessing","tag-publications","tag-valorization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rw5S-11f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4584,"url":"http:\/\/www.ernestohernandez.org\/?p=4584","url_meta":{"origin":3921,"position":0},"title":"BRIDGE | BioRenewables Inspired Development Geared by Elements","author":"Ernesto Hernandez","date":"July 26, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The UK government\u2019s Biomass Strategy 2023 aims to enhance biomass sustainability to help achieve net zero targets. 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