Thermochemical Transformation of Biomass
Kenichi Yakushido, Yuichi Kobayashi and Hitoshi Kato
Abstract
The generation of energy from biomass is promoted as a measure to combat global warming. There are five main methods for processing biomass: combustion (including for the generation of electricity), carbonization, gasification (again including for the generation of electricity), gasification for methanol synthesis, and ethanol fermentation. Although agricultural biomass is abundant, it is thinly distributed over a wide area, so its practical use requires much time and effort for harvest, preparation, and storage. In particular, because agricultural biomass initially has high water content, it must be dried before it can be used. ...
Get Research Approaches to Sustainable Biomass Systems now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
