Biomass: fuel versus food, a world problem?

Hall, D. O.

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“…One of the subsystems, so-called man-made technosystem, collects raw materials from the environment and excretes waste. Systematic expansion of the technosystem and its impact not only contributes to an imbalance in the biosphere but also causes a real threat to its future existence [29,30].…”

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Biorefinery Systems as an Element of Sustainable Development

Biernat¹,

Grzelak²

2015

Biofuels - Status and Perspective

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Thanks to that, "the bio-industry," which is the main component of the EU economy referred to as "bio-economy" ("bioeconomy"), will play an important role in stimulating sustainable growth and increasing Europe's competitiveness by reindustrialization and the revitalization of rural areas, providing tens of thousands of jobs in the field of research, development, and production over the next decade [3].The Bioeconomy Program for Europe is going to be an evolutionary program. Expected to develop so-called value chains, the implementation of which will ultimately lead to the creation of so-called biorefinery that a comprehensive and zero-waste will be recycled biomass. The most important technological challenges, political and market, therefore will be prior to commercialization of innovative solutions to full scale. These challenges cannot be overcome by an individual company or dispersed industry, so it is necessary to approach the whole system of management system biomass [4]. This is important because of the need to reverse the current trend of significant bioeconomic investments in non-European regions, where conditions seem to be more attractive. The longterm research and innovation jointly financed by public and private entities can help solve this problem. This process will be implemented through the creation and implementation of appropriate and developed value chains, which will lead to reducing the risk of investment in demonstration projects on the implementation of innovative processes.As part of the preparatory work for the start-up of the scope of the European bio-economy, there was a plan developed for Strategic Innovation and Research Agenda (SIRA). This document proposes a coherent set of actions that should be implemented through established "Biobased Industry Consortium" (BIC), namely:• Implementation of projects aimed toward the integration and implementation of technology and scientific results and the introduction of technology on a commercial scale by implementing demonstration and flagship projects• Implementation of development projects aimed at filling the gaps in research and technological innovation • Supporting projects taking challenges cross-sectors [5]Schematically, the areas covered by value chains are shown in Fig.1.As it can be seen from the schematic products, semi-finished and all residues of the process as a result of the implementation of the objectives set in the value chains should be directed to biorefinery systems, in order to complete the transformation into energy carriers and biochemicals for various purposes.

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Biorefinery Systems as an Element of Sustainable Development

Biernat¹,

Grzelak²

2015

Biofuels - Status and Perspective

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“…Solar energy, accumulated under earth in the form of fossil fuels since the inception of life, accounts for more than 97% of the world consumption of energy of which the share of oil is about 39%. The biomass accounts for 43% of the total energy supply in the developing countries as compared to only 1% in the development countries (Hall, 1982). With the present rate of consumption of 65 million barrels of crude oil per day and projected estimates, the present crude reserves may be badly depleted within the next 40 years.…”

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“…12 J the total annual energy use, however, is of the order of 3 × 10 20 J (Hall, 1982). One of the natural assets of our country is the abundant sunshine.…”

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Some potential biofuel plants for production of biodiesel in semi-arid and arid conditions: A review

Garg¹,

Kumar²

2013

Afr. J. Plant Sci.

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In India the demand of petroleum products has significantly increased during the last two decades due to rapid expansion in transport, industrial and agricultural sector. Plants provide source of renewable energy. A number of plants belonging to families Euphorbiaceae, Asclepiadaceae, Apocynaceae, Convolvulaceae etc. posses hydrocarbons. These triterpenoids are hexane extractable and can be converted into biofuel using hydro in their saps and latex. They contain hydrocarbons, which have over 30% of tri-terpenoids cracking. Screening of various biofuel plants was carried out.

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Biomass for Fuel and Food

Hall¹,

Groot²

1986

Advances in Solar Energy

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Biomass: fuel versus food, a world problem?

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

Biorefinery Systems as an Element of Sustainable Development

Biorefinery Systems as an Element of Sustainable Development

Some potential biofuel plants for production of biodiesel in semi-arid and arid conditions: A review

Biomass for Fuel and Food

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