Characterization of Spanish biomass wastes for energy use

García, Roberto; Pizarro, Consuelo; Lavín, Antonio Gutiérrez; Bueno, Julio L.

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2011.10.004

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“…However, it has been reported that SO 2 emissions are negligible in biomass fuels (García et al 2012). Eucalyptus shavings, Pinus shavings, and bamboo cellulose pulp presented the lowest S contents, while the highest values were found for maize harvesting wastes and rice husk.…”

Section: Physical and Chemical Characterization Of Lignocellulosic Wamentioning

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Brazilian Lignocellulosic Wastes for Bioenergy Production: Characterization and Comparison with Fossil Fuels

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The aim of this paper was to analyze energy-related properties of forestry and agricultural wastes for energy production purposes, and to compare them with fossil fuels. The forestry wastes used were red cedar, Eucalyptus, and Pinus wood shavings. The agricultural wastes analyzed were rice husk, coffee wastes, sugar cane bagasse, maize harvesting wastes, and bamboo cellulose pulp. The forestry wastes presented more suitable properties for bioenergy production than the agricultural wastes. Desirable energetic properties were found for coffee wastes. The opposite was verified for rice husks. Among the biomass studied, coffee wastes presented the highest equivalent in fossil fuel volume and hence may lead to the highest decrease in CO 2 emissions by fossil fuels used in Brazil for steam and heat production. The results suggests that CO 2 benefits can be obtained if bioenergy is generated in the same locale where biomass is produced, avoiding CO 2 cost of logistics and leading to greater end-use efficiency. The present work promotes the widespread use of different lignocellulosic wastes for bioenergy production and gives useful information for the planning and the control of power plants using biomass.

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Section: Physical and Chemical Characterization Of Lignocellulosic Wamentioning

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Brazilian Lignocellulosic Wastes for Bioenergy Production: Characterization and Comparison with Fossil Fuels

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“…The biomass moisture is an important factor since it interferes directly on other parameters such as the lower heating value, which decreases with increasing moisture content and thermal conductivity 10,15 . The volatile solid contents indicate the presence of organic matter and represent lignocellulosic and carbon fractions present in the samples, and expresses the weight amount of the components of biomass which first are combusted 15,16 . The ashes represent 6.2% of the total.…”

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Thermal Insulating Foams Produced From Glass Waste and Banana Leaves

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In this work, compositions containing transparent glass bottles and banana leaves (desiccated and crushed), with different mass fractions (30-50%), were prepared for obtaining cellular materials for thermal insulation purposes. The formulated and prepared compositions were uniaxially pressed (10 MPa) and the compact powders fired between 700 and 850°C for 30 min in order to investigate the effect of the banana leaves on the formation of pores and on the thermal and mechanical properties of the processed glass foams. The results indicated that the obtained glass foams with porosities between 58.5 and 87.5%, compressive strength ranging between 1.17 and 3.50 MPa and thermal conductivity ranging between 0.06 and 0.15 W/mK, are potential candidates to work as thermal insulators with appropriate properties for a specific application.

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“…Some of the reported advantages of biomass, such as its CO 2 life cycle neutrality [5], its moderate NO x or SO 2 emissions and its autonomy as a resource [6], make it a very useful feedstock for achieving these fixed goals. The energy conversion of biomass can be performed in different ways, bio and thermochemical being the most common.…”

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Optimization of a Bubbling Fluidized Bed Plant for Low-Temperature Gasification of Biomass

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Investigation into clean energies has been focused on finding an alternative to fossil fuels in order to reduce global warming while at the same time satisfying the world's energy needs. Biomass gasification is seen as a promising thermochemical conversion technology as it allows useful gaseous products to be obtained from low-energy-density solid fuels. Air-steam mixtures are the most commonly used gasification agents. The gasification performances of several biomass samples and their mixtures were compared. One softwood (pine) and one hardwood (chestnut), their torrefied counterparts, and other Spanish-based biomass wastes such as almond shell, olive stone, grape and olive pomaces or cocoa shell were tested, and their behaviors at several different stoichiometric ratios (SR) and steam/air ratios (S/A) were compared. The optimum SR was found to be in the 0.2-0.3 range for S/A = 75/25. At these conditions a syngas stream with 35% of H 2 + CO and a gas yield of 2 L gas/g fuel were obtained, which represents a cold-gas efficiency of almost 50%. The torrefaction process does not significantly affect the quality of the product syngas. Some of the obtained chars were analyzed to assess their use as precursors for catalysts, combustion fuel or for agricultural purposes such as soil amendment.

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Characterization of Spanish biomass wastes for energy use

Cited by 394 publications

References 29 publications

Brazilian Lignocellulosic Wastes for Bioenergy Production: Characterization and Comparison with Fossil Fuels

Brazilian Lignocellulosic Wastes for Bioenergy Production: Characterization and Comparison with Fossil Fuels

Thermal Insulating Foams Produced From Glass Waste and Banana Leaves

Optimization of a Bubbling Fluidized Bed Plant for Low-Temperature Gasification of Biomass

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