The introduction of biomass driven energy products like bioethanol, biodiesel, Combined Heat and Power production or solid biofuels is vital for achieving the targets set from the EU for the year 2010 (20% electricity production from RES). However, in order to reach these targets, a policy plan...

Anaerobic digestion is a very promising solution for the treatment of agricultural waste, preventing pollution and leading to efficient energy production. Since this technology is available to each farmer in a different way depending on the location and the scattering of the primary sources, it...

As with most of the Greek Islands, Crete is not interconnected to the national power grid. Therefore, power is generated locally and is based on a handful of ageing power plants running on imported diesel fuel oil, owned by the Public Power Corporation (PPC). However, the growth of the tourism...

The pre-drying technology is expected to play an important role in the next generation of brown coal power plants. The integration of the fluidised bed drying system with internal heat utilization (WTA technology) is estimated to bring an efficiency increase of up to 6 percentage points in...

The use of efficient, innovative and cost effective renewable energy systems in order to produce potable water seems to be a very promising research objective for scientists, engineers and economists, since the choice of the appropriate technologies is combined with the fact that these systems...

Waste treatment and management is a certain challenge especially in areas with high population density. One of the options for waste treatment is landfilling, where the amount of municipal waste also produces landfill gas through anaerobic digestion. The heating value of the landfill gas is high...

In the present study, the potential of biomass-to-bio-oil conversion as an intermediate process step to increase product energy density and subsequently decrease transport-related costs is examined. The scheme under investigation consists of two steps; (1) decentralized bio-oil production from...