Assessment of potential agricultural and short-rotation forest bioenergy crop establishment sites in Jackson County, Florida, USA

Merry, Krista; Bettinger, Pete; Grebner, Donald L.; Siry, Jacek P.; Cieszewski, Chris J.; Weaver, Steven; Ucar, Zennure

doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2017.08.004

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“…The profitability challenge is increased by the fact that the energy density of biomass is low, when compared to fossil fuels such as coal or oil [2]. It is also understood that the feedstock catchment area can be larger than estimated due to heterogenic ecological factors or land ownership issues in the focus area [3].…”

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Utilisation of Spatial Data in Energy Biomass Supply Chain Research—A Review

Korpinen

Aalto

et al. 2023

Energies

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The supply logistics of energy biomasses generally involves a complex system of supply chains, which aim to achieve timely and cost-efficient feedstock deliveries to biomass demand points. The performance of supply chains is often examined in case studies where spatial data about biomass sources and transportation networks are deployed in varying resolutions and to different geographical extents. In this paper, we have reviewed 94 publications, in which spatial data were used in case studies that focused on analysing and optimising energy biomass supply chains. The reviewed publications were classified into 16 categories, according to the publication year, study methods and objectives, biomass types, supply system complexity and the spatial features of each study area. This review found that the use of geographical information systems in this context has increased in popularity in recent years, and that and the multiformity of the applied methods, study objectives and data sources have increased simultaneously. Another finding was that most of the studies that we reviewed focused on countries in which spatial biomass and transport network data of high quality were unrestrictedly available. Nevertheless, case studies, including spatial data from multiple countries, were represented marginally in the papers that we reviewed. In this paper we also argue that a standard way of reporting geographical contents in biomass case studies should be developed to improve the comprehension and reproducibility of the publications in this field of research.

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Utilisation of Spatial Data in Energy Biomass Supply Chain Research—A Review

Korpinen

Aalto

et al. 2023

Energies

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“…The U.S. accounts for a relatively large proportion of bioenergy sustainability assessment in North American regions (e.g., [46][47][48][49]), whereas merely one study concentrates on Canada, with the emphasis on marginal land use. A most possible reason is that America actually has sufficient corn-based bioenergy supply compared with its Canada counterpart; and according to Jin and Sutherland [46], from 2000 to 2014, the U.S. bioenergy consumption per capita increased by 38.7%, which roughly proves that bioenergy plays an important part in the country's economic growth.…”

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“…Availability of Land Two of the reviewed studies take availability of land as an indicator, Merry et al [48] estimate potential land areas available for bioenergy production and observe the possibility of reduction in land availability. Kato et al [61] set availability of land as a precondition of bioenergy enhancement and point out that there is a requirement of careful consideration of land availability.…”

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Sustainability Assessment of Bioenergy from a Global Perspective: A Review

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Bioenergy, as a renewable energy resource, is expected to see significant development in the future. However, a key issue that will affect this trend is sustainability of bioenergy. There have been many studies on this topic but mainly focusing on only one or two-dimensions of the issue and also with much of the literature directed at studies of European regions. To help understand the wider scope of bioenergy sustainability, this paper reviews a broad range of current research on the topic and places the literature into a multi-dimensional framework covering the economic, environmental and ecological, social and land-related aspects of bioenergy sustainability, as well as a geographical analysis of the areas for which the studies have been carried out. The review indicates that it is hard to draw an overall conclusion on the sustainability of bioenergy because of limited studies or contradictory results in some respects. In addition, this review shows that crop-based bioenergy and forest bioenergy are seen as the main sources of bioenergy and that most studies discuss the final utilization of bioenergy as being for electricity generation. Finally, research directions for future study are suggested, based on the literature reviewed here.

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