From Crops and Wastes to Bioenergy
Current Status and Challenges
- 1st Edition - March 13, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Electo silva lora, Manuel Garcia-Perez, Osvaldo josé venturini
- Language: English
From Crops and Wastes to Bioenergy: Current Status and Challenges is a comprehensive volume on all aspects of biomass utilization for bioenergy, from the fundamentals to the lates… Read more
Description
Description
From Crops and Wastes to Bioenergy: Current Status and Challenges is a comprehensive volume on all aspects of biomass utilization for bioenergy, from the fundamentals to the latest commercial and regulatory issues. The book examines all aspects of biomass utilization, from technologies and processes to products. Sections examine the role of biomass in the energy transition, land availability for bioenergy projects, biomass logistics and supply chain, and assesses the lifecycle of bioenergy systems. Chapters are dedicated to each energy conversion route, including thermochemical, biochemical, and chemical, biofuels synthesis, hydrogen from biomass, biorefineries, electricity generation, and waste-to energy.
Policy and regulatory issues are also considered. Each chapter reviews the state-of-the-art, discusses disruptive technological approaches, and concludes with specific recommendations on how to achieve commercial competitiveness. Case studies provide examples of real-world applications in each chapter.
Key features
Key features
- Reviews the state-of-the-art of the topic, discussing disruptive technological approaches and concluding with specific recommendations on how to achieve commercial competitiveness
- Critically compares the various energy conversion routes, including thermochemical, biochemical, chemical, biofuel synthesis, hydrogen from biomass, biorefineries, electricity generation, and waste-to-energy
- Analyzes sustainability issues related to land availability, biomass logistics, and supply chain, as well as the role of bioenergy in the energy transition, lifecycle assessments, and policies and regulatory issues
Readership
Readership
Students and researchers working in the field of bioenergy and renewable energy, Practicing engineers working on project planning, the design and operation of energy conversion units using biomass for fuels, chemicals and electricity, or in agro-energy systems planning, Students on courses in Mechanical, Chemical, Bioprocess and Energy Engineering that have bioenergy/renewable energy aspects
Table of contents
Table of contents
2. Life cycle analysis and sustainability of bioenergy systems
3. Agricultural residues and energy crops
4. Biomass harvest and transport logistics: supply chain
5. Biomass energy conversion: routes and products
6. Thermochemical conversion: Combustion
7. Thermochemical conversion: Gasification
8. Thermochemical conversion: Pyrolysis
9. Thermochemical conversion: Biomass-to-liquids fuels
10. Biochemical conversion: Biodiesel and renewable Diesel
11. Biochemical conversion: Biogas
12. Biochemical conversion, bioethanol and biobutanol
13. Hybrid technologies
14. Biorefineries
15. Biofuels in internal combustion engines: performance and emissions
16. Aviation fuels, vegetable oils hydrotreating and drop-in –fuels
17. Hydrogen from biomass
18. Electricity generation from biomass
19. Waste-to-Energy
20. Policy, regulatory issues, and case studies of commercial scale projects
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: June 13, 2025
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Electo silva lora
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Manuel Garcia-Perez
Professor and Chair of Biological Systems Engineering at Washington State University, is a chemical engineer with nearly 30 years’ experience in thermochemical conversion of lignocellulosic materials, reactor design, biofuels and sustainable materials. He now focuses on selective carbonization of unconventional oils and supply chains for sustainable aviation fuels.
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