Utilization of Biomass Energy in Agriculture: Technology, Challenges and Opportunities
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 15137
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biomass energy is a renewable, energy-efficient and environment-friendly energy that could play an important role in the optimization of the energy consumption structure, the increase of agricultural productivity and the improvement of environmental condition. Agricultural wastes such as lignocellulosic wastes (straw and garden waste) and livestock manure are regarded as the most important raw materials for biomass energy production, and can be converted into solid, liquid and gaseous fuels or other energy products through direct combustion (e.g., solid briquette fuel or biomass power generation), chemical methods (e.g., esterification), thermochemical conversion (e.g., gasification or pyrolysis), and biological conversion (e.g., ethanol fermentation and biogas production). From this aspect, the utilization of biomass energy mostly refers to the treatment and use of agricultural waste by those bioenergy conversion technologies, while the byproducts from bioenergy generation can be also applied in the agriculture.
This Special Issue focuses on utilization of biomass energy in agricultural wastes conversion processes, the valorization of the byproducts, the conversion technology and equipment, and its commercial mode. Industrial policy, economic analysis, and environmental impact assessment of biomass energy can be also included in this Issue. Original research articles and reviews are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Wenguo Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biomass energy
- biogas
- bioethanol
- biodiesel
- biomass power generation
- biomass gasification
- by-product
- energy policy
- environment impact