Greenhouse Gas Balances of Bioenergy Systems

Patricia Thornley, Paul Adams

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9780081010365
• eBook ISBN:
  9780128094587
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Energy Industry
• Index: Business

Greenhouse Gases Balance of Bioenergy Systems covers every stage of a bioenergy system, from establishment to energy delivery, presenting a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of all the relevant issues and environmental risks. It also provides an understanding of how these can be practically managed to deliver sustainable greenhouse gas reductions. Its expert chapter authors present readers to the methods used to determine the greenhouse gas balance of bioenergy systems, the data required and the significance of the results obtained. It also provides in-depth discussion of key issues and uncertainties, such as soil, agriculture, forestry, fuel conversion and emissions formation. Finally, international case studies examine typical GHG reduction levels for different systems and highlight best practices for bioenergy GHG mitigation. For bringing together into one volume information from several different fields that was up until now scattered throughout many different sources, this book is ideal for researchers, graduate students and professionals coming into the bioenergy field, no matter their previous background. It will be particularly useful for bioenergy researchers seeking to calculate greenhouse gas balances for systems they are studying. I will also be an important resource for policy makers and energy analysts. - Uses a multidisciplinary approach to synthesize the diverse information that is required to competently execute GHG balances for bioenergy systems - Presents an in-depth understanding of the science underpinning key issues and uncertainty in GHG assessments of bioenergy systems - Includes case studies that examine ways to maximize the GHG reductions delivered by different bioenergy systems

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• Chapter 1: Sustainable Greenhouse Gas Reductions From Bioenergy Systems—Climate Change: A Bioenergy Driver and Constraint
• Chapter 2: How Policy Makers Learned to Start Worrying and Fell Out of Love With Bioenergy
• Chapter 3: Greenhouse Gas Balances of Bioenergy Systems: The Role of Life Cycle Assessment
• Chapter 4: Scope of System for Analysis
• Chapter 5: Biogenic Carbon—Capture and Sequestration
• Chapter 6: Greenhouse Gas (GHG) and Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound (bVOC) Fluxes Associated With Land-Use Change to Bioenergy Crops
• Chapter 7: Biomass Harvesting, Processing, Storage, and Transport
• Chapter 8: Biomass Conversion Technologies
• Chapter 9: GHG Emissions From Biomethane Gas-to-Grid Injection via Anaerobic Digestion
• Chapter 10: Biodiesel from Argentinean Soy
• Chapter 11: Combustion of Energy Crops for District Heating
• Chapter 12: Production of Wood Pellets from Waste Wood
• Chapter 13: Second-Generation Ethanol from Lignocellulose
• Chapter 14: Electricity From North American Forest Residues
• Chapter 15: Agricultural Lessons
• Chapter 16: Engineering Lessons—Using Engineering Design to Minimise GHG Emissions From Bioenergy Production
• Chapter 17: Environmental Lessons—Making Bioenergy System Decisions That Benefit the Environment
• Chapter 18: Policy Lessons: The Role of Policy Regimes in Maximising GHG Savings in Bioenergy Systems
• Chapter 19: Outlook–for Low Carbon Bioenergy
• Index