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This paper captures the breadth of complexity in the debate about ‘green jobs’ as the world seeks to transition to a ‘low carbon economy’ and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the reduction of reliance for energy on the burning of fossil fuels. A consideration is provided within...
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The rise of the bioeconomy is usually associated with increased sustainability. However, various controversies suggest doubts about this assumed relationship. The objective of this paper is to identify different visions and the current understanding of the relationship between the bioeconomy and...
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example is presented to compare two solid fuels for hydrogen production: coal and biomass. The results suggest that … better sustainability than coals, and that it may be advantageous to use coals in combination with biomass to increase their …
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Biomass energy and especially biofuels produced by biomass gasification are clean and renewable options for power … cooling. In the present paper, a biomass-integrated fogging steam injected gas turbine cycle is analyzed with energy and … reduces the biomass flow rate; (2) increasing the gas turbine inlet temperature decreases the air and biomass flow rates; (3 …
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In the present work, the results are reported of the energy and exergy analyses of three biomass-related processes for … electricity generation: the biomass gasification integrated externally fired combined cycle, the biomass gasification integrated … dual-fuel combined cycle, and the biomass gasification integrated post-firing combined cycle. The energy efficiency for the …
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This article is an overview of the current situation as well as future prospects for biogas production in rural plants in Poland. Our research has focused on the management of agricultural waste. While Poland’s agriculture and its local food industry have substantial potential, many barriers...
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The Biomass Research Centre, section of CIRIAF, has recently developed a biomass boiler (300 kW thermal powered), fed …
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This study had three main objectives: (1) to evaluate the aboveground biomass and volume yield of three unrelated … wood volume, and from 51 to 193 megagrams per hectare (Mg ha<sup>−1</sup>), for woody dry biomass. High volume and woody … dry biomass yields (26.3 to 49.9 m<sup>3</sup>ha<sup>−1</sup>yr<sup>-1</sup>, and 11.4 to 21.4 Mg ha<sup>−1</sup>yr<sup>-1 …
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illustrated with an on-going study on a new technology for the production of high purity hydrogen from biomass, to be used in …
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The results are reported of an energy analysis of a biomass/coal co-firing based power generation system, carried out … to investigate the impacts of biomass co-firing on system performance. The power generation system is a typical … pulverized coal-fired steam cycle unit, in which four biomass fuels (rice husk, pine sawdust, chicken litter, and refuse derived …
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