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Bioenergy Options for a Cleaner Environment: in Developed and Developing Countries

  • 1st Edition - November 21, 2003
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Ralph E.H. Sims
  • Language: English

Bioenergy Options for a Cleaner Environment describes the biomass resource and its delivery. A panel of international experts describe the range of conversion technologies both c… Read more

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Description

Bioenergy Options for a Cleaner Environment describes the biomass resource and its delivery. A panel of international experts describe the range of conversion technologies both commercially available and under development, and explore the technical, environmental and socio-economic barriers and benefits of using biomass in both developed and developing countries.

Key features

  • Covers a number of perspectives, taking the reader through the whole process from the bioenergy resource through conversion to fuel, to policy issues
  • World class Editor and contributors
  • Accessible and useful to those working in agriculture, forestry and planning, as well as energy researchers

Readership

Academics, government researchers, postgraduate students in bioenergy, forestry and agriculture, + planners and developers.

Table of contents

Biomass and resources, Ralph E H Sims and Nasir El Bassam
Delivering the biomass to the conversion plant, Ralph E H Sims
Heat, power and combined heat and power, Ralph P Overend
Liquid and gaseous biomass fuels, Koon Ong Lim and Ralph E H Sims
Policy options and strategies for market development of biomass : an Asian-Pacific perspective, Kyi Lwin
Biomass - the fuel of the rural poor in developing countries, Pradeep Chaturvedi

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 8, 2003
  • Language: English

About the author

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Ralph E.H. Sims

Affiliations and expertise
Massey University, New Zealand

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