**Preface to "Biomass for Energy Application"**

Considering new worldwide regulations related to the minimization of fossil fuel utilization to eliminate the negative impacts of global warming and prevent the exhaustion of resources, the utilization of biomass for energy applications has become one of the most common forms of renewable energy. The development of the utilization of renewable resources has highlighted a number of other tasks and constraints linked to the nature of renewable resources, including treatment, processing, conversion, and applied technologies, and thus, there is large number of critical views on this issue. Thus, this book, compiled from the new rigorously peer-reviewed research studies, tries to help the reader look at the utilization of biomass for energy applications from a different perspective. I hope that the research results published in this book will help us at least a little to keep the Earth in a sustainable form forever.

> **David Herak** *Editor*
