Portland Biomass is a source and supply Company of all biomass materials and has the experience and knowledge to supply one stop solutions.

Biomass is biological material derived from living, or recently living organisms. In the context of biomass for energy this is often used to mean plant based material, but biomass can equally apply to both animal and vegetable derived material.

Biomass is carbon based and is composed of a mixture of organic molecules containing hydrogen, usually including atoms of oxygen, often nitrogen and also small quantities of other atoms, including alkali, alkaline earth and heavy metals.  These metals are often found in functional molecules such as the porphyries which include chlorophyll which contains magnesium.

The carbon used to construct biomass is absorbed from the atmosphere as carbon dioxide (CO2) by plant life, using energy from the sun.

These processes have happened for as long as there have been plants on Earth and is part of what is known as the carbon cycle. There are five basic categories of material: