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Renewable Energy Production from Energy Crops and Agricultural Residues
Luigi Pari (editor)
2021
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Energies is open to submissions for a Special Issue on “Renewable Energy Production from Energy Crops and Agricultural Residues”. Biomass represents an important source of renewable and sustainable energy production. Its increasing consumption is mainly related to the increase in global energy demand and fossil fuel prices, but also to a lower environmental impact compared to non-renewable fuels. These factors take RED II directives into consideration. In the past, forestry interventions were the main supply source of biomass, but in recent decades two others sources have entered the international scene. These are dedicated energy crops and agricultural residues, which are important sources of biomass for biofuel and bioenergy. Below, we consider four main value chains: • Oil crops: Oil production from non-food oilseed crops (such as camelina, Crambe, safflower, castor, cuphea, cardoon, etc.), oil extraction, and oil utilization for fuel production. • Lignocellulosic crops: Biomass production from perennial grasses (miscanthus, giant reed, switchgrass, reed canary grass, etc.), woody crops (willow, poplar, Robinia, eucalyptus, etc.), and agricultural residues (pruning, maize cob, maize stalks, wheat chaff, sugar cane straw, etc.), considering two main transformation systems: 1. Electricity/heat production 2. Second-generation ethanol production • Carbohydrate crops (cereals, sweet sorghum, sugar beets, sugar cane, etc.) for ethanol production. • Fermentable crops (maize, barley, triticale, Sudan grass, sorghum, etc.) and agricultural residues (chaff, maize stalks and cob, fruit and vegetable waste, etc.) for production of biogas and/or biomethane.
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Keywords
- agricultural production
- agricultural residues
- agriculture residues
- agroenvironmental mapping
- ash content
- bio-based supply chains
- biocommodity
- bioenergy
- Biofuels
- Biomass
- biomass quality
- bioresource
- cable yarder
- calorific value
- central Italy
- cereals
- circular bioeconomy
- CO2 emission
- combine harvesting
- commodity
- Corine Land Cover
- crop by-products
- digestate
- dry matter loss
- Economic Analysis
- energy crop
- Energy Efficiency
- energy return on investment
- Environmental impact
- enzymatic hydrolysis
- Eucalyptus
- externalities
- firewood logs
- Forecasting
- fuelwood
- genotype × site interaction
- greenhouse gas emissions
- harvest index
- Harvesting
- harvesting loss
- harvesting methods
- harvesting system
- high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis
- hog fuel
- hydrothermal pretreatment
- integrated biomass logistical center
- Jatropha curcas L.
- land suitability
- Life Cycle Assessment
- lignocellulosic biomass
- lower heating value
- maize cob
- Miscanthus x giganteus
- mixed integer programming model
- modelling
- moisture content
- new varieties
- nitrogen content
- oil crops
- olive groves
- pine plantations
- Poland
- Populus
- pruning
- pruning harvesting
- pruning supply chain
- Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects
- renewable energy
- Renewable energy sources
- Research & information: general
- Salix
- short rotation coppice
- slope
- soil organic carbon
- Spatial Analysis
- staple foods
- stationary chipper
- storage of fine wood chips
- storage system
- straw
- sugar yield
- suitable areas
- sulphur
- sulphur content
- sustainable production
- Technology, engineering, agriculture
- Technology: general issues
- thermophysical and chemical features
- threshing
- time study
- tree whole stem
- triticum
- weed seed
- wheat
- wheat chaff
- willow biomass
- willow biomass production
- woody biomass
- work performance
- work productivity
- yield energy value
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DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-0107-9Editions