Biomass vs Biorefinery - What's the difference?
biomass | biorefinery |
The total mass of a living thing or part thereof, such as a cell.
* 2005 , David A Guertin and David M Sabatini, chapter "Cell Size Control" in Encyclopedia of Life Sciences , Wiley:
The total mass of all living things within a specific area, habitat etc.
Vegetation used as a fuel, or source of energy, especially if cultivated for that purpose.
(uncountable) the coproduction of a range of biologically-based products (food, feed, materials, chemicals) and energy (fuels, power, heat) from biomass
(countable) a facility that carries out such production
As nouns the difference between biomass and biorefinery
is that biomass is the total mass of a living thing or part thereof, such as a cell while biorefinery is (uncountable) the coproduction of a range of biologically-based products (food, feed, materials, chemicals) and energy (fuels, power, heat) from biomass.biomass
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Since protein constitutes the majority of the biomass of a cell, building new protein is a major way that cells increase their size.