Assessment of sustainable energy potential of non-plantation biomass resources in Sri Lanka

Generation of High Quality Biogenic Silica by Combustion of Rice Husk and Rice Straw Combined with Pre- and Post-Treatment Strategies—A Review

“…Table 1. Fuel properties of RH, RS, and wood (data were taken from [23,59,99,102, for RH, from [105,109,112,[119][120][121]125,135,136,145,[156][157][158][159][160][161][162][163][164][165][166][167][168][169][170][171][172][173][174][175] for RS and from [92,110,[176][177][178] Origin of the raw materials can have a significant impact on the inorganic composition of fuel ashes of RH and RS. For instance, as shown in Table 2, RH from Egypt, Cambodia, and Italy was evaluated in the same laboratory with the same measurement techniques [72,98].…”

Potential of biogas production from biomass and waste materials in the Small Island Developing State of Mauritius

“…A general trend that has been adopted by many countries is to shift from fossil fuels towards renewables; particularly the conversion of biomass and waste materials to energy [9,10]. This interest towards renewables has also reached the developing world as evidenced by numerous studies performed on the potential of bio-energy in developing economies like Albania [11], Bangladesh [12], Brazil [13], Cameroon [14], China [15], Ethiopia [16], Ghana [17,18], India [19][20][21], Malaysia [22][23][24][25], Mexico [26], Nepal [27], Nigeria [28], Pakistan [29], Sri Lanka [30], Uganda [31] and Zimbabwe [32,33], among others.…”

A methodological approach for assessing potential of sustainable agricultural residues for electricity generation: South Asian perspective

“…The characteristic values of residues, such as generation rate of each species, residue collection factors, and residue dryness factors are presented in literature sources [3], [15], [12], [26] as shown in Table 4. …”

“…Fernandes et al [16] estimated the potential of biomass residues in a region of Portugal by using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) counting cultivated area of each species. Bhattacharya et al [1], Ravindranath et al [5] and Perera et al [12] have assessed the gross potential of non-plantation biomass in few Asian countries. These previous studies lack to present a clear standardized method for assessing sustainable residue potential based on crop and animal productions and conversion through anaerobic digestion (AD) process.…”

“…Earlier literature has estimated potentials for various biomass resources in global [11], regional [1], [6], and nationallevel scales [3], [5], [12], [13] based on fuel calorific values. In the published literature, various techniques have been used to assess the potential of sustainable agricultural residues.…”