Biomass Based Renewable Energy Systems
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A4: Bio-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 October 2021) | Viewed by 4423
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Striving for a minimization of non-renewable energy resources consumption and greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions is crucial from the point of view of sustainable mankind development.Reduction of fossil fuels consumption and consequent GHG emission in energy supply sector is increasingly a more and more important issue. One of the approaches aiming at this is substitution of fossil fuels with solid biomass, commonly regarded as CO2-neutral fuel. Combustion of biomass and co-firing it with fossil fuels is a popular technology across Europe and USA. It can be done in many technological configurations, where grate technology combustion, pulverised fuel combustion (PF) and fluidised bed combustion (CFB – circulating fluidised bed and BFB – bubbling fluidised bed) should be named as the most popular. Although all the listed technologies are already mature and through the very broad and detailed experience of combustion and co-firing installations, biomass co-firing ratio (determined at most by biomass share on mass or energy basis) is not unlimited for existing plants, designed primarily for coal. The potential replacement depends on technical limitations as well as limitations imposed by the authorities and financial and legal provisions. On the other hand, considering the real “carbon-neutrality” of biomass combustion, we should focus on maximisation of use of non-woody biomass, like agro-origin biomass (including straw and other residues) or energy crops.
In the planned Special Issue, we intend to focus (but not exclusively) on:
- state-of-the-art large scale applications of biomass combustion and co-firing,
- life cycle assesment of biomass combustion systems,
- technological and operationsl bottlenecks of biomass combustion,
- biomass processing and upgrading,
- energy and ecological effects of biomass combustion,
- biomass torrefaction for high-share co-firing ratios,
- optimization of non-woody (agro) biomass combustion by additives.
Prof. Jaroslaw Zuwala
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biomass combustion
- co-firing
- technical bottlenecks
- slagging
- fouling
- bed agglomeration
- defluidization
- ash disposal
- combustion emissions
- life cycle assessment
