Green, Yellow, and Woody Biomass Supply-Chain Management: A Review

Rodias, Efthymios; Berruto, Remigio; Bochtis, Dionysis; Sopegno, Alessandro; Busato, Patrizia

doi:10.3390/en12153020

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“…Turhollow et al [185], however, noted that sorghum has a great potential as an annual energy crop, describing energy sorghum as forage sorghum bred for high biomass production. Rodias et al [186] and Shahandeh et al [187] noted that sweet sorghum is an important energy crop for bioethanol production. Sundstrom et al [188] pre-treated sorghum biomass using ionic liquid and carried out saccharification and fermentation to produce sesquiterpene bisabolene, which is a precursor to renewable diesel.…”

Section: Sorghummentioning

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An Assessment of Potential Resources for Biomass Energy in Nigeria

2020

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Nigeria is a developing country with an insufficient supply of energy to meet the continuously growing demand. However, there are several biomass resources available within the country. This paper presents a desk review, which investigates the potential resources for biomass energy generation within the country. Energy policies to aid biomass use as an energy source within the country were also reviewed. Biomass resources identified within Nigeria include forest residues, agricultural residues, human and animal wastes, aquatic biomass, and energy crops. However, several of the resources, particularly agricultural residues, have competing uses, such as livestock feed and soil rejuvenation. An estimation of the technical energy potential of the biomass resources revealed that about 2.33 EJ could be generated from the available resources in Nigeria. Agricultural residues have an energy potential of about 1.09 EJ, with cassava, maize, oil palm, plantain, rice, and sorghum being the major contributors. Animal wastes, municipal solid waste, and forest residues have energy potentials of 0.65, 0.11, and 0.05 EJ, respectively. The potentials of wood fuel and charcoal are 0.38 and 0.05 EJ, respectively. The study found that despite the available potential and existing policies, not much has been done in the implementation of large-scale bioenergy within the country. However, there has been laboratory and research-scale investigations. The review suggests that more policies and stronger enforcement will aid bioenergy development within the country. From the review, it has been suggested that the agricultural sector needs to be developed to generate more biomass resources. More research, development, and implementation have to be carried out on biomass resources and bioenergy generation processes. The production of non-edible energy crops in marginal lands should also be considered prime to the development of bioenergy within the country.

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Section: Sorghummentioning

confidence: 99%

An Assessment of Potential Resources for Biomass Energy in Nigeria

2020

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“…From lignocellulosic biomass, second-generation bioethanol can be also produced [9][10][11][12]. Since it should be assumed that the demand for woody biomass will increase in the future, willow grown in short, 2-10-year harvest rotations has been the focus of many studies [13][14][15][16][17].…”

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Energy Value of Yield and Biomass Quality in a 7-Year Rotation of Willow Cultivated on Marginal Soil

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Bioenergy plays a major role as a renewable energy source in the European Union. Solid biomass is derived mainly as wood from forests and wood processing plants. Willow plantations set up on marginal lands can be a supplementary source of wood for energy generation. This study aimed to determine the energy value of yield and the thermophysical properties and elemental composition of the biomass of 7-year rotation willow harvested on marginal soil. Three varieties and three clones were cultivated in the Eko-Salix system on three marginal soils in northern Poland: riparian, alluvial soil, classified as heavy complete humic alluvial soil (Obory); organic, peat–muck soil formed from peat (Kocibórz); very heavy mineral clay soil (Leginy). Favourable conditions for obtaining high energy value biomass were at Kocibórz and Obory with a high groundwater level. The energy value of biomass at Leginy was lower than at Kocibórz and Obory (by 33% and 26%, respectively). The Ekotur variety had the significantly highest yield energy value (217 GJ ha−1 year−1) among the varieties and clones under study. This feature at Kocibórz and Obory was 288 and 225 GJ ha−1 year−1, respectively, and 139 GJ ha−1 year−1 at Leginy. Moreover, the biomass of this variety contained less ash (1.1% d.m.), sulphur (0.03% d.m.) and nitrogen (0.28% d.m.), which is beneficial from the energy-use perspective. Notably, the yield energy value of the UWM 095 clone biomass was also high (167 GJ ha−1 year−1). This study showed that willow grown in the Eco-Salix system can be a significant source of energy contained in good-quality woody biomass.

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“…Energy consumption is an important agricultural environmental indicator and serves as a basis for the calculation of several composite indicators related to energy such as energy efficiency and energy balance [14,15]. The research focus during recent years was on the assessment and calculation of the energy footprint for the entire crop production, providing approaches for improvement in terms of environmental impact measures, through the minimization of agricultural inputs such as water use, fertilizers, and plant protection products [14][15][16][17]. In all of the cases, the goal is to assess or minimize the environmental burden of agricultural operations, while maintaining the quality and quantity of production [13].…”

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Energy Footprint of Mechanized Agricultural Operations

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The calculation of the energy cost of a cultivation is a determining factor in the overall assessment of agricultural sustainability. Most studies mainly examine the entire life cycle of the operation, considering reference values and reference databases for the determination of the machinery contribution to the overall energy balance. This study presents a modelling methodology for the precise calculation of the energy cost of performing an agricultural operation. The model incorporates operational management into the calculation, while simultaneously considering the commercially available machinery (implements and tractors). As a case study, the operation of tillage was used considering both primary and secondary tillage (moldboard plow and field cultivator, respectively). The results show the importance of including specific operation parameters and the available machinery as part of determining the accurate total energy consumption, even though the field size and available time do not have a significant effect.

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Green, Yellow, and Woody Biomass Supply-Chain Management: A Review

Cited by 13 publications

References 57 publications

An Assessment of Potential Resources for Biomass Energy in Nigeria

An Assessment of Potential Resources for Biomass Energy in Nigeria

Energy Value of Yield and Biomass Quality in a 7-Year Rotation of Willow Cultivated on Marginal Soil

Energy Footprint of Mechanized Agricultural Operations

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