Impact of Political Economy and Logistical Constraints on Assessments of Biomass Energy Potential: New Jersey as a Case Study

2014 ◽  
pp. 111-124
Author(s):  
Margaret Brennan-Tonetta ◽  
Gal Hochman ◽  
Brian Schilling
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Energy Potential

scholarly journals Biomass Potential from Agricultural Waste for Energetic Utilization in Greece

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1095 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spyridon Alatzas ◽  
Konstantinos Moustakas ◽  
Dimitrios Malamis ◽  
Stergios Vakalis
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Waste ◽  
Combined Heat And Power ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Energy Potential ◽  
Annual Basis ◽  
Mediterranean Countries ◽  
Biomass Resources ◽  
Gasification Technology

The alignment of the Greek national legislation with the corresponding EU legislation has enhanced the national efforts to pursue renewable Combined Heat and Power (CHP) projects. The scope of the present study has been the identification of the available biomass resources and the assessment of their potential. In this paper, we present the results from the administrative regions of Crete, Thessaly, and Peloponnese. The levels of lignocellulosic biomass in Greece are estimated to be 2,132,286 tonnes on an annual basis, values that are very close to the cases of other Mediterranean countries like Italy and Portugal. In respect to the total agricultural residues, Crete produces 1,959,124 tonnes/year and Thessaly produces 1,759,457 tonnes/year. The most significant streams are identified to be olive pits, olive pruning, and cotton ginning remnants, with more than 100,000 tonnes/year each. In the latter part of this manuscript, a case study is presented for the development of a CHP gasification facility in Messenia. The biomass energy potential of the area is very promising, with about 3,800,000 GJ/year. The proposed small-scale gasification technology is expected to utilize 7956 tonnes of biomass per year and to produce 6630 MWh of electricity and 8580 MWh of thermal energy.

Feedstock Opportunities for Bioenergy Production: Assessment of Biomass Energy Potential in New Jersey

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 404-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Brennan-Tonetta ◽  
Serpil Guran ◽  
David Specca ◽  
Brett Cowan ◽  
Chris Sipos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Energy Potential ◽  
Bioenergy Production

Chemical Equilibrium Model for Fixed-Bed Gasification to Assess Biomass Energy Content

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnaldo Verdeza ◽  
Luz Ahumada ◽  
Antonio Bula
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Equilibrium ◽  
Equilibrium Model ◽  
Elaeis Guineensis ◽  
Energy Content ◽  
Fixed Bed ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Process Efficiency ◽  
Energy Potential ◽  
Chemical Equilibrium Model

A chemical equilibrium model for fixed-bed gasification is developed, which allows the prediction of the syngas composition, the amount of residual coal or ash, as well as the amount of tars as a function of the gasification temperature and the elemental composition of the biomass and the tars. Moreover, the combustion heat of the gas fuel is calculated, as well as the conversion and process efficiency, in order to perform further analyses which allow the determination of energy potential for different types of biomass under several conditions of moisture and equivalence ratio of gasifying agent. Performance of the proposed model is compared to prediction of some models which were found to be relevant in the literature review. An assessment to the model is also carried out. For this purpose, a case-study is performed for African palm (Elaeis guineensis) shells using a commercial gasifier. Experimental data obtained from the biomass used in the case-study are used to feed the model and perform the assessment. Actual results and model predictions (results) are compared varying the equivalent relation between 0.05 and 0.65, and the moisture content form biomass between 0 and 20%. This case is proposed as a benchmark case for further applications.

Ballistics, Bertillonage, and Ballyhoo

2021 ◽  
pp. 195-222
Author(s):  
Noah Tsika
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Public Service ◽  
General Electric ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
New Jersey State Police ◽  
State Police ◽  
Private Profit

This chapter considers some key intersections between cinema and criminal science, centering on a little-known case study: so-called suspect films—observational shorts produced initially by the New Jersey State Police and an assortment of municipal counterparts and later by private companies like RCA, Universal, and General Electric. As this case study reveals, cinema’s utility as a tool of policing was far from simple or self-evident. It had to be carefully constructed, aggressively promoted, and rendered profitable in a political economy in which the line between public service and private profit was rarely very distinct.

Lord Dacre and the Politics of the Scottish Enlightenment

2005 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
North East ◽  
The Social ◽  
Romantic Movement ◽  
Scottish History

Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre) made several iconoclastic interventions in the field of Scottish history. These earned him a notoriety in Scottish circles which, while not undeserved, has led to the reductive dismissal of Trevor-Roper's ideas, particularly his controversial interpretation of the Scottish Enlightenment, as the product of Scotophobia. In their indignation Scottish historians have missed the wider issues which prompted Trevor-Roper's investigation of the Scottish Enlightenment as a fascinating case study in European cultural history. Notably, Trevor-Roper used the example of Scotland to challenge Weberian-inspired notions of Puritan progressivism, arguing instead that the Arminian culture of north-east Scotland had played a disproportionate role in the rise of the Scottish Enlightenment. Indeed, working on the assumption that the essence of Enlightenment was its assault on clerical bigotry, Trevor-Roper sought the roots of the Scottish Enlightenment in Jacobitism, the counter-cultural alternative to post-1690 Scotland's Calvinist Kirk establishment. Though easily misconstrued as a dogmatic conservative, Trevor-Roper flirted with Marxisant sociology, not least in his account of the social underpinnings of the Scottish Enlightenment. Trevor-Roper argued that it was the rapidity of eighteenth-century Scotland's social and economic transformation which had produced in one generation a remarkable body of political economy conceptualising social change, and in the next a romantic movement whose powers of nostalgic enchantment were felt across the breadth of Europe.

Context Mediated

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-63
Author(s):  
Benjamin Pickford
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Ralph Waldo Emerson ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Economic Relation ◽  
Economic Agency

Benjamin Pickford, “Context Mediated: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Political Economy of Plagiarism” (pp. 35–63) Context has long been a critical determiner of methodologies for literary studies, granting scholars the tools to make objective claims about a text’s political or economic relation to the situation of its genesis. This essay argues that Ralph Waldo Emerson anticipatively criticizes our commitment to such practices through his use of plagiarism—a literary mode that exemplifies the denial of the sovereignty of context. I focus on two core principles that underlie Emerson’s conception of literature’s civic role in Essays: Second Series (1844): first, that literature is driven by an impulse to decontextualize; second, that this means that it has a deep affinity with the deterritorializing logic of capital. Provocatively proposing Emerson as a theorist of the relation between literature and economics, I argue that Essays: Second Series shows how the literary text can negotiate its ineluctable culpability with capitalism, but this does not mean that it can presume to possess a privileged point of vantage that might deny such culpability. Given that this is precisely what much historicizing or contextualizing scholarship implies, I contend that Emerson gives us a case study in the limits of literature and criticism’s economic agency.

The political economy of and practical policies for inclusive growth—a case study of Scotland

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Houston ◽  
Georgiana Varna ◽  
Iain Docherty
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Regional Governance ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Inclusive Governance ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Civic Institutions

Abstract The concept of ‘inclusive growth’ (IG) is discussed in a political economy framework. The article reports comparative analysis of economic and planning policy documents from Scotland, England and the UK and findings from expert workshops held in Scotland, which identify four key policy areas for ‘inclusive growth’: skills, transport and housing for young people; city-regional governance; childcare; and place-making. These policies share with the ‘Foundational Economy’ an emphasis on everyday infrastructure and services, but add an emphasis on inter-generational justice and stress the importance of community empowerment as much as re-municipalisation. Factors enabling IG policy development include: the necessary political powers; a unifying political discourse and civic institutions; and inclusive governance and participatory democracy.

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