From Crops and Wastes to Bioenergy

Current Status and Challenges

Electo silva lora, Manuel Garcia-Perez, Osvaldo josé venturini

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443160851
• Subtopic: Economic Theory
• Index: Biological Sciences

From Crops and Wastes to Bioenergy: Current Status and Challenges is a comprehensive volume on all aspects of biomass utilization for bioenergy, from the fundamentals to the latest commercial and regulatory issues. The book examines all aspects of biomass utilization, from technologies and processes to products. Sections examine the role of biomass in the energy transition, land availability for bioenergy projects, biomass logistics and supply chain, and assesses the lifecycle of bioenergy systems. Chapters are dedicated to each energy conversion route, including thermochemical, biochemical, and chemical, biofuels synthesis, hydrogen from biomass, biorefineries, electricity generation, and waste-to energy.Policy and regulatory issues are also considered. Each chapter reviews the state-of-the-art, discusses disruptive technological approaches, and concludes with specific recommendations on how to achieve commercial competitiveness. Case studies provide examples of real-world applications in each chapter. - Reviews the state-of-the-art of the topic, discussing disruptive technological approaches and concluding with specific recommendations on how to achieve commercial competitiveness - Critically compares the various energy conversion routes, including thermochemical, biochemical, chemical, biofuel synthesis, hydrogen from biomass, biorefineries, electricity generation, and waste-to-energy - Analyzes sustainability issues related to land availability, biomass logistics, and supply chain, as well as the role of bioenergy in the energy transition, lifecycle assessments, and policies and regulatory issues

Table of contents

• From Crops and Wastes to Bioenergy
• Chapter One Energy transition, bioeconomics, and sustainability
• Chapter Two Life cycle analysis and sustainability of bioenergy systems
• Chapter Three Agricultural residues and energy crops
• Chapter Four Sustainable biomass harvesting and transport logistics: A holistic optimization approach for bioenergy projects
• Chapter Five Biomass energy conversion: Routes and products
• Chapter Six Thermochemical conversion: Combustion
• Chapter Seven Thermochemical conversion: Gasification
• Chapter Eight Thermochemical conversion: Pyrolysis
• Chapter Nine Biofuels through thermochemical conversion: Biomass-to-liquids
• Chapter Ten Biofuel conversion: Biodiesel and renewable diesel
• Chapter Eleven Biochemical conversion: Biogas
• Chapter Twelve Biochemical conversion of biomass into bioethanol and biobutanol
• Chapter Thirteen Hybrid technologies
• Chapter Fourteen Biorefineries as a tool in energy matrix transition
• Chapter Fifteen Biofuels in internal combustion engines: Performance and emissions
• Chapter Sixteen Aviation fuels, vegetable oil hydrotreating, and drop-in fuels
• Chapter Seventeen Hydrogen production through biomass gasification
• Chapter Eighteen Electricity generation from biomass
• Chapter Nineteen Waste to energy
• Chapter Twenty Policy, regulatory issues, and case studies of full-scale projects
• Index