Attempt on improving property of highly-densified biomass resources for renewable energy

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Norio Matsuura ◽  
Masashi Narita ◽  
Tsunehisa Miki ◽  
Kozo Kanayama ◽  
Norio Takakura
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Biomass Resources ◽  
Densified Biomass

scholarly journals Biomass Sources and Energy Potential for Energy Sector in Myanmar: An Outlook

Resources ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maw Maw Tun ◽  
Dagmar Juchelková
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Total Energy ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Energy Potential ◽  
Total Energy Consumption ◽  
Biomass Resources

Nowadays, renewable energy utilization plays a key role in developing countries to fulfill the additional energy requirements of a country and reduce dependency on fossil fuels and traditional biomass consumption. As Myanmar has an agriculture-based economy and 48% of forest-cover (32.2 million hectares); biomass is one of the major renewable energy sources, contributing around 50% of total energy consumption. Therefore, the study aimed to highlight the available biomass sources and energy potential for the energy sector in Myanmar. In order to achieve the aim, the study collated the types, quantity and qualities of biomass resources, and energy utilization around Myanmar. Besides, the study synthesized and evaluated the energy potential of the major biomass resources coming from the agriculture sector, forest sector, livestock and poultry sector, and municipal sector. It was estimated that the total energy potential of the major biomass sources amounted to approximately 15.19 million tons of oil equivalent (Mtoe) in 2005 and 17.29 Mtoe in 2017, respectively. The unexploited biomass energy potential around the country was estimated to be nearly 50% higher than that of the projected biomass energy utilization during 2015–2019. Finally, the study concluded with recommendations to provide the future sustainable development of biomass energy in Myanmar.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study on Energy Derived from Biomass

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
A.M. Algarny ◽  
I.M. Al-Naimi ◽  
M.A.M Alhefnawy
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
County Council ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Eastern Province ◽  
Renewable Source ◽  
Biomass Resources

The paper promotes sustainable community through empowering the production and utilization of biomass renewable energy. The aim of this paper is to urge societies to adopt sustainable energy practices and resources; the objective is to appraise the possibilities of biomass energy produced through a neighborhood in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. The system incorporates an evaluation of the measure of biomass created, then utilizes two ascertaining techniques to gauge whether the measure of energy can be delivered. The computation strategies are hypothetical, with one drawn from past works and the other from a Biomass Calculation Template performed as part of the Evaluation of Biomass Resources for Municipalities study (EBIMUN) by the Waterford County Council. The outcomes demonstrate that the aggregate potential biogas generation of the study area is around 43,200 m3 /year, the methane mass is around 18,000 m3 /year, and the energy production amount is around 250 MWh/year. Contrasting the capability of biogas creation from both techniques, the figure assessed by EBIMUN is around 7,000 m3 /year less than the hypothetically computed amount. The figures suggest that biogas is worthy of consideration as a renewable source of energy. 

Malaysian Biomass Resources: Green Renewable Contribution in the National Energy Mix

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abd Halim Shamsuddin
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Palm Kernel ◽  
Green Energy ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Energy Mix ◽  
Environmental Objectives ◽  
Biomass Resources

Being a major agricultural commodity producer in the region Malaysia is well positioned amongst the ASEAN countries to promote the use of biomass as a renewable energy source in the national energy mix. The palm oil industry, the second largest in the world, has over 4 million hectares of plantation. The palm oil milling industry produces large amount of solid residues, the volumes of which for the year 2007 are: empty fruit bunches EFB (16.7 million tonnes), fruit fibres (12.2.million tonnes), and palm kernel shell (4.9 million tonnes). Besides the oil palm milling industry residues, other biomass contributors includes, the timber industry, rice industry and bagasse. These biomass residues, if fully utilized as fuel for power generation, would have the potential of annual generation of 31,900 GWh, with maximum generating capacity of 3,600 MW. Under the National Energy Policy set in 1979, three principal energy objectives, which are instrumental in guiding the future energy sector development, were established. These are Supply, Utilization and Environmental Objectives. In 2001, the beginning of the Eighth Malaysian Plan, Renewable Energy (RE) was regarded as the fifth fuel in the new Five Fuel Strategy in the energy supply mix. The target is that RE contributes 5% of the country’s electricity demand by the year 2005. Malaysia’s Five Fuel Diversification Policy provides the renewable energy policy guidance while the current grid-based small renewable energy programmes (SREP) and the renewable energy power purchase agreement (REPPA), embodies the national renewable energy strategy. To reinforce these policy instruments, the Malaysian Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water launched the National Green Technology Policy in the middle of 2009 that include Green Energy Technology. This paper presents the overall scenario of the Malaysia’s biomass resources, the status of biomass contribution to the nation’s energy mix, the challenges faced by the biomass promoters, and future research and development activities in developing optimized and efficient technologies at the Centre for Renewable Energy, Universiti Tenaga Nasional.

Anaerobic Digestion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Joseph Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Plant Design ◽  
Process Optimisation ◽  
Engineering Process ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Efficient Energy ◽  
Biomass Resources

With the growing demand for renewable, sustainable and efficient energy, biogas is one of the most promising methods to meet global renewable energy goals. Anaerobic Digestion: From Biomass to Biogas provides a comprehensive and systematic guide to developing and implement technology for biogas. This book gives a brief overview of biogas as an energy alternative, discusses biomass resources, basic biogas science and engineering, feedstock characterisation, storage, pretreatment and yield optimisation. Plant design, development and process control, emissions, digestate quality, engineering, process optimisation, land use and fertilisation are also included. Biogas generation, cleaning, upgrading and use as a transport fuel are also discussed. Anaerobic Digestion: From Biomass to Biogas is a practical guide to biogas technologies for process developers, producers, industrial chemists and biochemists, biologists, researchers and academics in this area.

scholarly journals Effects of Incentives for Renewable Energy in Colombia

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesus Maria Lopez Lezama ◽  
Fernando Villada ◽  
Nicolas Muñoz Galeano
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Forest Biomass ◽  
Levelized Cost Of Electricity ◽  
Loan Repayment ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
New Business ◽  
Accelerated Depreciation ◽  
Biomass Resources ◽  
The Government

<p>Renewable energy is becoming very important as a way to mitigate climate change and promote job creation. Colombia is not excluded from this reality, being a country with huge renewable resources and the challenge to give employment to thousands or rebels, signing the peace process. This paper studies the potential effects of the new regulation to promote the development of renewable energy technologies in Colombia. Two incentives are analyzed: tax deductions on the investment and accelerated depreciation on assets. The work also establishes a methodology to include the effects of tax incentives in the calculation of the Levelized Cost Of Electricity (LCOE). The results show up to 20% reduction in the LCOE; unfortunately, the regulation restricts small or new business to apply for all incentives. For this reason, two complementary mechanisms (granting five years as grace period for loan repayment and lower discount rate as subsidy from the government) are proposed in order to allow small business ventures such as forest biomass projects apply to incentives. As a result, 30% reduction in the LCOE is obtained for photovoltaics (PV) and 15% for forest biomass; being the last one a great opportunity in Colombia because of the huge amount of biomass resources and its potential to create new job opportunities.</p><p> </p>

scholarly journals Discussion on regional revitalization using woody biomass resources as renewable energy

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuka Nakahara ◽  
Tomohiro Tabata ◽  
Tomoko Ohno ◽  
Fumiko Furukawa ◽  
Katsuro Inokuchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Woody Biomass ◽  
Biomass Resources

Review of Renewable Energy in Iran

2012 ◽  
Vol 463-464 ◽  
pp. 980-984
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Asadi ◽  
Mahmoud Baghban Torgadri ◽  
Mahdi Moharrampour
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Crude Oil ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Nw Iran ◽  
Wind Power Plants ◽  
Geothermal Potential ◽  
Biomass Resources ◽  
The Moment

Increasing in consumption of petroleum, population, environmental problems, diminishingly fossil sources and world trend to energy technology respect to environmental safety and renewable energy are some reasons for most countries to use and investigate on renewable energy. In this regard this paper presents the state of geothermal, wind and biomass energy in Iran. Results indicate that Iran has substantial geothermal potential, specifically in the Sabalan (NW-Iran) and Damavand (N-Iran) regions that are considerate prospects for electric power generation and direct uses. Due to recent advancements in wind energy, many inventors in the country have become interested in investing in this type of energy. At the moment, projects assuming 130 MW of wind power plants are underway. Of which, 25 MW is operational. Results of this study shows that the major biomass resources in Iran are agricultural solid wastes (%59), animal wastes (%28), corrupting waste materials (%11), and industrial waste waters (%2). According to statistical data, the potential biomass energy in Iran is equal to 15 million ton of crude oil which will be estimated about %13 of annual Iranian crude oil sale.

scholarly journals Lithuanian forest biomass resources: legal, economic and ecological aspects of their use and potential

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iveta Varnagirytė-Kabašinskienė ◽  
Diana Lukminė ◽  
Stasys Mizaras ◽  
Lina Beniušienė ◽  
Kęstutis Armolaitis
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Forest Biomass ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Wood Ash ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Ground Vegetation ◽  
Ecological Aspects ◽  
Biomass Resources

AbstractThe development of bioenergy markets is beneficial from a climate perspective and helps ensure sustainable forest management both locally and globally. This study aimed to provide an overview of the current state of Lithuanian forest biomass resources with a particular focus on the legal, economic and ecological aspects of forest biomass use for energy and to identify the lessons that should be learned from the history of biomass introduction in the country’s energy sector. These experiences and lessons are valuable both nationally and internationally, where good practices and challenges for the introduction and development of forest biomass for energy production are revealed. We examined the question of whether regulatory drivers in the energy sector can increase forest biomass use for energy production and contribute to sustainable development of Lithuania. To answer this question, we described the legal and market instruments regulating forest biomass use for energy production, the forestry sector and renewable energy policy in Lithuania, the current and potential amount of forest biomass available for energy production and ecological considerations relating to forest biomass use for energy. In Lithuania, forest biomass resources are strategically important for the renewable energy sector. The National Energy Strategy of Lithuania aims to increase the share of renewable energy sources, including forest biomass, within the total energy consumption, with targets of 30% in 2020, 45% in 2030 and 80% in 2050. Lithuania successfully achieved the target of EU legislation on renewables in 2015 ahead of the obligation to achieve it in 2020. Renewable energy is mainly used in heating, as well as in the electricity and transport sectors. This has resulted in a significant price reduction for end users due to the increased use of biomass, mainly local forest biomass, for heat energy production and in the emergence of a biofuel exchange, which acts as a system of biomass auctions that to some extent prevent unjustified price increases. Legislation developed for the energy biomass market in Lithuania allows efficient restructuring of the energy sector, especially for heat production. The Lithuanian energy sector has already successfully replaced imported and relatively expensive natural gas with locally available cheaper renewable energy sources (RES). Compliance with formal environmental regulations is required to protect the soil, ground vegetation, understory and biodiversity during commercial tree harvesting. Lithuania has basic guidelines for the use of wood ash as a compensatory fertiliser, with strict requirements for the chemical quality of wood ash.

scholarly journals The Prospective Non-Conventional Alternate and Renewable Energy Sources in Pakistan—A Focus on Biomass Energy for Power Generation, Transportation, and Industrial Fuel

Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wajahat Ullah Khan Tareen ◽  
Zuha Anjum ◽  
Nabila Yasin ◽  
Leenah Siddiqui ◽  
Ifzana Farhat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
Biomass Resources

Pakistan is experiencing an undersupply of electricity, causing load shedding several hours per day due to the adherence to conventional energy resources having quantitative and environmental limitations. Fossil fuels generate more than half of the country’s total electricity, but they will ultimately run out due to their limited supply. Their combustion emits greenhouse gases, posing environmental threats. Since the world is tending toward efficient and sustainable alternative methods for harvesting energy from nature, Pakistan has also been investigating an elevated deployment of renewable energy projects. This paper presents a critical analysis of the present energy sector of Pakistan along with global scenarios. Pakistan relies on mainly thermal, hydro, and nuclear energy for power generation. National solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass resources have not been extensively explored and implemented. This paper provides an insight into the potential of these resources in Pakistan to generate electricity for the national grid on a large scale. It focuses on biomass energy, which can be harnessed from bagasse, poultry waste, and municipal waste for power production, and biomass-based fuel for industries and transportation. It concludes that biomass is the most sustainable, available, implementable, and environment-friendly resource that can be utilized to lessen the energy demand and supply gap in Pakistan.

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