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interest in sustainable fuel sources. industrial production industrial biomass can be grown from numerous types of plants, including miscanthus, switchgrass, hemp, corn , poplar , willow , sorghum , and sugarcane. [ ] it can also be obtained from a variety of tree species, ranging from eucalyptus to oil
palm (palm oil). the particular plant used is usually not very important for the end products, but it does affect processing of the raw material. plastics from biomass, like some recently developed to dissolve in seawater, are made the same way as petroleum-based plastics, are actually cheaper to manufacture...
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is the fat pressed from the fibrous flesh of the fruit of many palms, principally the coconut palm, the african oil palm (elaeis guineensis), the peach palm (bactris gasipaes), the babassu palm (orbignya species, especially o. phalerata), and other south american species. commercial palm oils are used
for soaps and candles, lubricants, margarine, fuel, feed (chiefly the caked residue remaining after the oil has been expressed), and many other purposes. the total output of palm oil equals that of all other nondrying oils combined. in indonesia and malaysia, the main producers of palm oil, the rapid...
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