The first LC stage of each analyzed biomass system was the harvest of the wood or the production and collection of wheat straw.
My Khe 4 was a scraggly, much harassed collection of straw-and-mud houses, inhabited by perhaps a hundred women, children, and old men.
In general, wood offers more environmental benefits than straw as feedstock due to the emissions associated with the cultivation and collection stage of straw, and wood torrefaction offers additional benefits in the transportation and in gasification and gas cleaning stages.
After collection of the pretreated straw from the pilot plant, straw batches were washed in water 1 2 (vol/vol) to imitate the pilot-scale process wherein a washing step eliminates inhibitory soluble substances created during the pretreatment.
"Instead of a last straw there seemed to be an accumulation of straws".
Returning to Central de Abasto at dawn and looking like a sleep-deprived collection of hair and straw, Bastard Bollocks Barton soon discovers the market is awash in comedians – sorry, chilli – and he is forced to sell at a lower price.
For now, Maenje village in Area 25 is a collection of 30 or more straw-thatched huts, small maize fields and, down by a stream, a near Garden of Eden where the village works communally to grow and share cash crops, vegetables and fruit.
When my Great Auntie Evelyn died, she was kind enough to bequeath me, along with two mustard-coloured armchairs and a floral-patterned tea service, her large collection of hats – small, brightly hued straw concoctions, a bubble of yellow and white felt, an ocelot-print pillbox, a brown suede bakerboy cap.
They appeared to be made of straw.
Nobody is in favor of straw purchases".
Smells are of straw and tagine spices.
