About the Tool & Data Sources


This webtool was developed for public usage by the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

Data

The webtool displays the following types of data:

  • Wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) with anaerobic digestion
  • Facilities with anaerobic digestion onsite other than WWTP
  • Combustion plants.
  • Manure locations.
  • Manure (non points)
  • Municipal solid waste locations
  • Crop locations
  • Processor residue (non points)
  • District energy systems
  • Mixed use developments (non points)
  • Process heating and cooling locations
Basic Usage

Users can interact with the map in the following ways:

  • Select the year of the analysis from a drop-down menu.
  • Set the background layer as biomass availability or thermal consumption density from a drop-down menu.
  • Select whether the facility of interest is an Anaerobic Digestion or a Therochemical facility from a drop-down menu. This filters the biomass data by moisture and only shows the relevant portions based on the facility selection.
  • Select from a drop-down menu whether the biomass amounts will be shown as gross amounts or technical amounts.
  • Set the radius for the search buffer in which the analysis will be performed.
  • Click on any point data on the map to get more information.
  • Click on the map, to given the signal of the query point location, from where the algorithmic process is going to initiate. This will show the available biomass locations and amounts that fall within the predefined buffer zone.
  • Download the data in a csv format for the entire county or the selected biomass that is inside the predefined buffer.
  • Report whether there are errors in the data to us and we will work to the best of our abilities to confirm and fix any issues.

The outputs of the algorithmic process are going to appear on the screen after the computation is done. The outputs consist of the locations of all available biomass that are within the buffer zone from the clicked location. By clicking on any point the user can get more information on the nature and amounts of the biomass.

Data Sources
Dataset Source(s) Citation(s)
Material Recovery Facilities Link Governmental Advisory Associates, Inc. 2016-2017 Database on Material Recovery Facilities and Mixed Waste Processing Facilities in the U.S., with updates 2019.
WWT Anaerobic Digesters Link (1)
(1)National Biosolids Partnership Biogas Database, June 7, 2013 ed. Water Environment Federation, Alexandria, VA, 2013; http://epi9-prod.wef.org/; Waste to Biogas Mapping Tool: Total Technical Potential estimate download; United States Environmental Protection Agency; Pacific Southwest, Region 9.
(2) California Biomass Facilities Reporting System: Facilities Database. California Biomass Collaborative: Davis, CA, 2015; http://biomass.ucdavis.edu/tools/california-biomass-facilitiesreporting- system/ ; Verified via Google Maps by Hanna Breunig.
W2E Anaerobic Digesters Link California Anaerobic Digestion Projects (a partial list, October 2015), CalRecycle, Sacramento, CA, 2015.
Combustion Plants
(1) California Forest Products and Biomass Power Plant Table. University of California, Berkeley Woody Biomass Utilization Group, Berkeley, CA, 2016.
(2) Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) 2012. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 2015.
District Energy Systems N/A Private data from International District Energy Association (IDEA) from personal correspondence with Hanna Breunig.
Biorefineries Link Renewable Fuels Association. "Ethanol Biorefinery Locations."
DOE Billion Ton Biomass Data Link U.S. Department of Energy. 2016. 2016 Billion‐Ton Report: Advancing Domestic Resources for a Thriving Bioeconomy, Volume 1: Economic Availability of Feedstocks. M. H. Langholtz, B. J. Stokes, and L. M. Eaton (Leads), ORNL/TM‐2016/160. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. 448p. doi: 10.2172/1271651.
Energy Crops Link U.S. Department of Energy. 2016. 2016 Billion‐Ton Report: Advancing Domestic Resources for a Thriving Bioeconomy, Volume 1: Economic Availability of Feedstocks. M. H. Langholtz, B. J. Stokes, and L. M. Eaton (Leads), ORNL/TM‐2016/160. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. 448p. doi: 10.2172/1271651.
Forest Residues Link U.S. Department of Energy. 2016. 2016 Billion‐Ton Report: Advancing Domestic Resources for a Thriving Bioeconomy, Volume 1: Economic Availability of Feedstocks. M. H. Langholtz, B. J. Stokes, and L. M. Eaton (Leads), ORNL/TM‐2016/160. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. 448p. doi: 10.2172/1271651.
Food Waste Link Disposal-Facility-Based Characterization of Solid Waste in California, DRRR-2015–01546; CalRecycle; Sacramento, CA, 2015.
Manure Link U.S. Department of Energy. 2016. 2016 Billion‐Ton Report: Advancing Domestic Resources for a Thriving Bioeconomy, Volume 1: Economic Availability of Feedstocks. M. H. Langholtz, B. J. Stokes, and L. M. Eaton (Leads), ORNL/TM‐2016/160. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. 448p. doi: 10.2172/1271651.
MSW (Non-plastics) Link U.S. Department of Energy. 2016. 2016 Billion‐Ton Report: Advancing Domestic Resources for a Thriving Bioeconomy, Volume 1: Economic Availability of Feedstocks. M. H. Langholtz, B. J. Stokes, and L. M. Eaton (Leads), ORNL/TM‐2016/160. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. 448p. doi: 10.2172/1271651.
MSW (Plastics) Link Governmental Advisory Associates, Inc. 2016-2017 Database on Material Recovery Facilities and Mixed Waste Processing Facilities in the U.S., with updates 2019.
USDA NASS Biomass Data Link National Agricultural Statistics Service. (2017). NASS - Quick Stats. USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Fats, Oils and Greases
(1) Fats and Oils: Oilseed Crushings, Production, Consumption and Stocks 2020 Summary (March 2021) USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service.
(2) Seiple, Timothy; Milbrandt, Anelia (2020), “National Wet Waste Inventory (NWWI)”, Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/f4dxm3mb94.1