Unit 2
All feedstocks, biorenewables included, have to be sourced from somewhere Heyo, welcome back to the blog. I hope you're ready to get into feedstocks! I sure am. Before we roll up our sleeves and get into it, though, do y'all have any idea what a feedstock is? I didn't until recently. Allow me to enlighten you! Feedstocks are raw materials that are used in the manufacturing or production of some other product, usually fuel. So like, corn, for example, is a raw material that's used to produce ethanol; crude oil is another raw material, used to produce gasoline ( Feedstock ). Now that we know what feedstocks are, let's talk about where we get them. We mainly grow biorenewable resources in two forms: trees (woody plants) and crops (herbaceous plants) ( Lesson 8 ). These are the primary resources from which biomass-- biorenewable feedstocks-- are sourced. Woody Biomass ( Quantifying environmental effects ) The three main systems that we typically use to produce woody b...