biofuel
biofuel
Definition
bio·fuel (bī′ō fyo̵̅o̅′əl)
noun
any fuel derived from renewable biological sources, as plants or animal waste; esp., a liquid fuel for automotive engines made from corn or soybean oil
biofuel
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- produce: A Klang Valley company had even proposed to build a plant in Negri Sembilan to produce biofuel for export to Europe, he said.
- develop: Virgin would also like to develop a biofuel suitable for aircraft engines, although it concedes this could be a decade away.
Adjective modifier
- Scottish: Scottish BioFuel will consider offering long term guaranteed price contracts for the supply of energy crop.
- new: The aim is to test the performance of the new green biofuel produced by UK company D1 Oils.
- friendly: It is claimed to be a ' truly sustainable environmentally friendly biofuel and generates no harmful emissions ' .
- most: Currently, most biofuel is burned to release its stored chemical energy.
Modifies a noun
- feedstock: This text starts with an outline of the importance and position of primary production of biomass, and then of biofuel feedstocks.
- crop: The Green Party has a clear policy against Biofuel crops, for good reasons.
- production: They now have to decide whether to buy in pure biofuels for blending or to invest in their own biofuel production plants.
- plant: They now have to decide whether to buy in pure biofuels for blending or to invest in their own biofuel production plants.
- industry: The World Bank reports that biofuel industries require about 100 times more workers per unit of energy produced than the fossil fuel industry.
- market: New research suggests that the European biofuel market is set to expand, according to Datamonitor.
Noun used with modifier
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