Energy crops
Technology and economy of energy crops
... selected energy crops and further costs for recommended forms of energy crops processing to biofuels was ...per energy unit in biofuel have ranged from 59 to 121 ...The energy ...
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Forecasting Profits and Production Feasibility of Emerging North Carolina Energy Crops
... on-farm energy demand, has generated significant interest in energy crops from crop producers that believe renewable energy represents greater opportunities for agricultural ...producing ...
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A Multi-Criteria Assessment of Energy Crops for Biogas Production
... (energy crops, biomass) in the biogas plant, economic information is required besides technological ...of energy crops production costs represent a sufficient high-quality information support ...
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GREEN HARVESTS OF THREE PERENNIAL ENERGY CROPS AND THEIR CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
... the energy crops showed slight decrease of carbon on contrary to nitrogen, sulfur and oxygen that increased with time of green harvest – see Tables 2 - ...
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Carbon sequestration by perennial energy crops: is the jury still out?
... to energy crops are central to the debate on bioenergy and their potential carbon ...perennial energy crops (PECs) is synthesised to parameterise a whole systems model and to identify ...
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Thermophysical and chemical properties of perennial energy crops depending on harvest period
... on energy crops yielding semi-wood or straw biomass began in ...straw crops, Miscanthus x giganteus seems to be most resistant to ...perennial crops for solid fuel, under the conditions ...
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Glucanocellulosic ethanol: The undiscovered biofuel potential in energy crops and marine biomass
... the energy crops maize and Miscanthus where the typical polymer cellulose forms an unconventional layered architecture with the atypical (1, 3)-β-glucan polymer ...in energy crop ...
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Assessing the Availability of Land and Water Resources for Production of Energy Crops in Southern Africa
... two crops but are particularly good for production of ...of crops over the growing season and ulti- mately the potential ...of crops in the beginning of the growing season 100% of the time and more ...
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Energy crops in Ireland: An economic comparison of willow and Miscanthus production with conventional farming systems
... from energy crops were based on mid-yield and mid-cost estimates, and a discount rate of ...to energy crop gross margins is variation in cultivation ...some energy crop harvest and supply ...
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Limited adoption of biomass energy crops : the role of farmers' socio cultural identity in influencing practice
... primary energy demand by 2020, with energy crops and agricultural residues expected to expand fastest (DfT/DECC/DEFRA, ...of energy crops (Howard et ...to energy crops ...
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Trace element delivery for biogas production enhanced by alternative energy crops: results from two-year field trials
... 40% maize and 60% faba bean (mix 3) resulted in 0.032 mg kg − 1 FM giving the greatest Co content in plant based mixtures. This was almost half the threshold of 0.07 mg kg −1 FM (Table 5, mix 1–3). With a small in- put ...
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Entropy of energy crops and GHG mitigation
... Energy crops are still considered as an important renewable energy source even though there are many doubts whether they may replace fossil fuels ...of energy crop production especially in the ...
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Sustainability, overall and process efficiency of energy crops
... of energy crop production including sun energy, direct and indirect energy for cultivation, processing, and conversion into fuel is demonstrated using rape and derived fuels as an ...includes ...
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An Integrated Assessment of Energy Crops Production in Taiwan
... total energy crop output in Tainan ...total energy crop output comes from Grade II soil, which is mostly located in the West Tainan ...that energy crop mills and refining plants should be located in ...
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Understanding the expansion of energy crops beyond the global biofuel boom: evidence from oil palm expansion in Colombia
... fuel crops in the Global South and policy-driven biofuel demand in the Global ...biofuel crops requires re- search at the country/local levels as well as comparative analysis across countries and ...
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High-resolution spatial modelling of greenhouse gas emissions from land-use change to energy crops in the United Kingdom
... renewable energy deployment and expanding the current protected area network represent key solu- tions to these challenges, but conflicts may arise over the use of limited land for energy production as ...
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Where did the marginal land go?: farmers perspectives on marginal land and its implications for adoption of dedicated energy crops
... marginal land for growing perennial crops utilised in energy systems is not a particularly novel one... In the 1980s, McElroy and Dawson 1986 discussed the potential to use marginal land[r] ...
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Energy Crops, Forestry and Regional Development in Ireland
... 4 Evaluation of Land Suitability for Energy Crop Production 5 Unit Cost Estimates, Conventional Forestry 6A Present Net Worth and Annual Equivalents per Hectare and per Acre, Conventiona[r] ...
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Glucanocellulosic ethanol: The undiscovered biofuel potential in energy crops and marine biomass
... 3D Super-resolution imaging of Miscanthus epidermal leaf cell walls co-stained with aniline blue fluorochrome for specific 1,3-β-glucan detection blue channel and pontamine fast scarlet [r] ...
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From crops to products for crops: preserving the ecosystem through the use of bio-based molecules
... co-oxidant. This PTC efficiently transferred oxygen to the substrate in the lipophilic phase. A mono-acid (pelargonic acid) and a di-acid (azelaic acid), with shorter, unusual hydrocarbon chains not present in the natural ...
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