Extending switchgrass harvest over many months would require a smaller investment in harvest machines, but would result … land for growing switchgrass. A model was constructed and solved to determine the optimal strategy. …

cellulosic biomass under different contractual arrangements. This paper focuses on the switchgrass stated choice experiment from …Farmers’ Willingness to Grow Switchgrass as a Cellulosic Bioenergy Crop: A Stated Choice Approach Agriculture’s role as … a source of feedstocks in a potential lignocellulosic-based biofuel industry is a critical economic issue. Several …

the United States and biomass as a feedstock source relative to fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum. An estimate of … the biomass resource base is provided. Estimated changes in the agricultural sector over time resulting from the … development of a large-scale biobased industry are reported, and a study on the potential to produce electricity from biomass …

Analysis of the potential to supply 25% of projected 2025 U.S. transportation fuels indicates sufficient biomass … continue to be important feedstocks for ethanol and biodiesel production, but cellulose feedstocks (agricultural crop residues …, energy crops such as switchgrass, and forestry residues) will play a major role. Farm income increases, mostly because of …

Pyrolysis is one of the potential routes to harness energy and useful chemicals from biomass. The major objective of … biomass pyrolysis is to produce liquid fuel, which is easier to transport, store and can be an alternative to energy source …. The yield and composition of pyrolysis oil depend upon biomass feedstock and operating parameters. It is often necessary …

mainly two processes involved in the conversion of biomass to bio-oil: flash pyrolysis and hydrothermal liquefaction. The …Biomass can be utilized to produce bio-oil, a promising alternative energy source for the limited crude oil. There are … cost of bio-oil production from biomass is relatively high based on current technologies, and the main challenges are the …

Pyrolysis is a promising bioconversion technique for energy recovery, waste management, and converting biomass into … background of pyrolysis are presented. Additionally, biomass resources which can be the raw material for pyrolysis process have …-oil, and syngas are the three main products of the pyrolysis process. The pyrolysis technique is one of the major barriers for …

heat via fast pyrolysis of biomass. The energy and material flows for the fuel synthesis are calculated by process … raw biomass and 1.39MW electricity respectively (HHV basis). The results indicate an overall efficiency of 84% including … high-temperature heat and the biomass to bio-methane yield amounts to 83% after allocation of the biomass input to the …

Pyrolysis experiments have been conducted on a sample of rapeseed to determine particularly the effects of pyrolysis … temperature, heating rate, particle size and sweep gas flow rate on the pyrolysis product yields and their chemical compositions …. The maximum oil yield of 73% was obtained at the final pyrolysis temperature of 550–600 °C, particle size range of +0 …

Fixed-bed pyrolysis experiments have been conducted on a sample of cottonseed cake to determine the possibility of … Heinze retort. Pyrolysis atmosphere and pyrolysis temperature effects on the pyrolysis product yields and chemical … composition have been investigated. The maximumm oil yield of 29.68% was obtained in N2 atmosphere at a pyrolysis temperature of …