Review
Energy & Fuels
Jakub Frankowski, Wojciech Czekala
Summary: Plant biomass has great potential as a feedstock for bioenergy production, particularly in the form of biogas. The choice of substrates and technologies is crucial to achieve the desired results, with waste and residues being increasingly utilized due to their availability and cost-effectiveness. This review analyzes the potential of using agricultural plant residues as co-substrates for biogas production, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages. The study emphasizes the importance of determining the biogas and methane efficiency of the substrates, which can serve as potential raw materials for gaseous biofuel production. The use of artificial neural networks for predicting biogas emissions is also discussed as a future-proof approach.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Saowanee Wijitkosum
Summary: This study analyzed five different types of biochar produced from agricultural wastes and wood residues, finding that they possess suitable properties for soil amendment and carbon sequestration, but significant differences exist in specific surface area, average pore diameter, pH, etc.
INTERNATIONAL SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hugo Guzman-Bello, Iosvani Lopez-Diaz, Miguel Aybar-Mejia, Maximo Dominguez-Garabitos, Jose Atilio de Frias
Summary: The Dominican Republic has significant potential for energy generation from residual biomass, particularly from sugarcane, rice, and coconut waste. The Eastern, Northeastern, and Southern regions have the highest potential, which can be combined with other sources to provide a more stable and reliable electricity supply.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Prakhar Talwar, Apoorva Upadhyay, Nikita Verma, Rickwinder Singh, Christoph Lindenberger, Nidhi Pareek, Andrey A. Kovalev, Elena A. Zhuravleva, Yuriy V. Litti, Shyam Kumar Masakapalli, Vivekanand Vivekanand
Summary: Fungal pre-treatment using Pleurotus ostreatus and the addition of biochar were carried out to reduce the pre-treatment duration of agro-waste substrates. The study showed that adding biochar not only enhanced lignin removal and biomethane yield, but also reduced the biological pre-treatment duration, making it less dependent on a single lignocellulosic biomass for energy and food production.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sasiwimol Khawkomol, Rattikan Neamchan, Thunchanok Thongsamer, Soydoa Vinitnantharat, Boonma Panpradit, Prapa Sohsalam, David Werner, Wojciech Mrozik
Summary: This study produced biochar from agricultural residues (such as corncob, coconut husk, coconut shell, and rice straw) using a horizontal drum kiln. The biochars had low O/C and H/C ratios, negative charge from functional groups, and desirable properties such as high heating value and surface functional groups suitable for various applications including biofuels, adsorbents, and soil amendments. Coconut husk and shell biochars, in particular, were identified as having ideal properties for these purposes.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Anurag Chauhan, Subho Upadhyay, Gaurav Saini, N. Senthilkumar
Summary: Concerns about climate change, depletion of fossil fuels, and energy crisis have led the world to explore alternative energy sources. This paper estimates the bioenergy potential of 12 agricultural crops cultivated in India and suggests that renewable sources such as biomass, solar, wind, and small hydro are the best alternatives to meet the increasing energy demand.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENTS
(2022)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Aisha Abdullah, Ashfaq Ahmed, Parveen Akhter, Abdul Razzaq, Murid Hussain, Nazia Hossain, Muhammad Saifullah Abu Bakar, Shahzad Khurram, Khaliq Majeed, Young-Kwon Park
Summary: Pakistan's current energy portfolio faces challenges due to poor management and lack of proper policies. The study suggests utilizing agricultural residues as renewable energy sources to address the increasing energy demand while mitigating environmental concerns. Proper management of these biomass feedstocks could potentially meet a significant portion of Pakistan's energy demand.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Bill Vaneck Bot, Jean Gaston Tamba, Olivier Thierry Sosso
Summary: Biomass briquettes made from agricultural residues should be recommended for household cooking in countries with high agricultural potential. This paper evaluates the energy recoverable from crop residues by briquette manufacturing and analyzes the benefits and barriers of briquetting conversion in Cameroon. The results show that the availability of agricultural residues in the country provides an important potential for briquette production, with an annual energy potential of around 106 PJ.
BIOMASS CONVERSION AND BIOREFINERY
(2022)
Article
Agronomy
Hidayatul Fitri, Gurkan A. K. Gurdil, Bahadir Demirel, Elcin Yesiloglu Cevher, Hynek Roubik
Summary: The West Nusa Tenggara province in Indonesia is a major producer of rice, corn, and cacao, resulting in an increase in agricultural residues. The study calculated the potential availability of these residues based on the amount of agricultural products and unused residues. It found that paddy straw, corn straw, and corn cobs had the highest percentage of residue availabilities. The province also has a rich diversity of agricultural residues from various crops. The study highlights the potential for bioenergy generation and biomass utilization in promoting sustainable agriculture and energy management.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY BIOENERGY
(2023)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Hary Demey, Elvira Rodriguez-Alonso, Elie Lacombe, Maguelone Grateau, Nicolas Jaricot, Andre Chatroux, Sebastien Thiery, Muriel Marchand, Thierry Melkior
Summary: The torrefaction of almond shells and olive stones showed that treatment time should not exceed 45 minutes, with the highest temperature leading to increased heating values and fixed carbon values, as well as maximum mass loss. Large-scale torrefaction produced biochars with properties similar to those obtained in the laboratory-scale batch reactor, suitable for use as reducing materials in metallurgy.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ufuk Turker, Dilara Gerdan, M. Ali Dayioglu, Ayten O. Avcioglu
Summary: This study calculated the amount of biomass residues from arable field crops and horticultural fruit production in Turkey, developed a spatial distribution map, and calculated the potential energy values of these residues. Potential provinces for biomass energy plant establishment were identified based on the findings.
FRESENIUS ENVIRONMENTAL BULLETIN
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ayat Khalid Salem, Asia Fadhile Almansoory, Israa Abdulwahab Al-Baldawi
Summary: Chemical coagulation-flocculation has been widely used in water and wastewater treatment. This study investigated the use of green coagulant, specifically Iraqi plants, for removing turbidity from kaolin synthetic water. Thirteen selected powdered coagulants were tested at varying concentrations, and the seven best green coagulants were identified based on their turbidity removal efficiency.
Article
Energy & Fuels
Bill Vaneck Bot, Petros J. Axaopoulos, Evangelos Sakellariou, Olivier Thierry Sosso, Jean Gaston Tamba
Summary: This study analyzes the energy consumption and economic viability of biomass briquettes production from agricultural residues. The research focuses on the briquetting conversion process and finds different energy consumption levels for rattan waste, coconut shells, sugarcane bagasse, and banana peels briquettes. The economic analysis results show that the viability of briquette production is highly sensitive to briquette market price, discount rate, and capital cost.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Abu Naser Md Ahsanul Haque, Nigar Sultana, Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem, Shamima Akter Smriti
Summary: The extensive use of dyes leads to massive dye discharge in wastewater, causing water pollution. Plant-derived wastes are proposed as sustainable adsorbents for dye separation, but they are less effective for anionic dyes. The modification of these wastes to suit anionic dye removal has gained attention in recent years.
Article
Energy & Fuels
Bill Vaneck Bot, Petros J. Axaopoulos, Evangelos I. Sakellariou, Olivier Thierry Sosso, Jean Gaston Tamba
Summary: This study conducted an economic analysis of a small-scale biomass briquette production plant in Cameroon, including production costs, energy consumption, and economic viability of various agricultural residues. The results suggest that suitable strategies can make biomass briquette production from crop residues economically beneficial.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
M. Genovese, F. Piraino, P. Fragiacomo
Summary: This research proposes the concept of a hydrogen valley in southern Italy, where hydrogen is produced centrally and delivered via fuel cell hybrid trains to refueling stations, providing transportation services. The analysis from both technical and economic perspectives shows that the cost of hydrogen and energy efficiency reached competitive levels, and hydrogen rail transport offers significant benefits in terms of emissions reduction and economic gains compared to conventional diesel trains and fully electric trains.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Miaomiao Liu, Payam Nejat, Pinlu Cao, Carlos Jimenez-Bescos, John Kaiser Calautit
Summary: This article provides a critical review of the performance of windcatchers, pointing out the current research gaps and issues, and proposing directions for further investigation and market prospects.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Solomon Boadu, Ebenezer Otoo
Summary: Despite Africa's vast energy resources, including wind energy, the continent faces challenges in developing its wind energy industry. Northern African countries and South Africa currently dominate the wind energy sector in Africa. To uplift Africa's socio-economic status, strong political will, supportive policies, and institutional frameworks are needed to drive the development of wind energy and overcome existing challenges.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
E. K. Grubbs, S. M. Gruss, V. Z. Schull, M. J. Gosney, M. V. Mickelbart, S. Brouder, M. W. Gitau, P. Bermel, M. R. Tuinstra, R. Agrawal
Summary: As the global population grows, the demand for food, energy, and water will increase significantly. However, limited land availability and competition for solar resources pose challenges to resource generation technologies. In the United States, both agriculture and solar energy production have adopted densification schemes to improve yields and energy output per unit of land. This research proposes an Agrivoltaic food and energy coproduction architecture that optimizes power generation while maintaining crop productivity by implementing ideal anti-tracking during critical growth periods. This technology offers a viable pathway for widespread solar implementation throughout the contiguous United States.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Han Shao, Rui Henriques, Hugo Morais, Elisabetta Tedeschi
Summary: The integration of offshore wind energy into the electric grid provides opportunities in terms of environmental sustainability and cost efficiency, but poses challenges to power quality. This survey offers a deeper understanding of disturbance detection and classification tools, exploring root causes, disturbance locations, and algorithmic solutions. It highlights synchronized waveform measurement and discusses evaluation metrics for detection and classification algorithms. Additionally, a novel system-wide monitoring framework is proposed.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Eleni Davidson, Yair Schwartz, Joe Williams, Dejan Mumovic
Summary: A continued upward trend in global greenhouse gas emissions poses risks to global infrastructure and built assets. Maintaining high indoor environmental quality standards is a challenge for higher education institutions under future climates. Passive cooling mechanisms may be insufficient to tolerate predicted temperature increases. Different building typologies have varying energy demand projections.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Kexin Pang, Jian Zhou, Stamatis Tsianikas, David W. Coit, Yizhong Ma
Summary: This study proposes a new framework for long-term microgrid expansion planning, using deep reinforcement learning method to consider various uncertainties and constraints. The framework aims to enhance the effectiveness of microgrid expansion planning from the perspectives of economy, resilience, and greenhouse gas emission reduction.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jun Zhao, Kangyin Dong, Xiucheng Dong
Summary: The continuous growth of global electricity penetration has provided modern energy for alleviating energy poverty, but its impact on carbon neutrality has been overlooked. The research reveals that clean electricity from traditional fossil energy and renewable energy has a positive influence on the greenhouse effect. Eradicating energy poverty can effectively alleviate the greenhouse effect, especially in non-Belt and Road Initiative (B&RI) nations.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hossein Shahbeik, Hamed Kazemi Shariat Panahi, Mona Dehhaghi, Gilles J. Guillemin, Alireza Fallahi, Homa Hosseinzadeh-Bandbafha, Hamid Amiri, Mohammad Rehan, Deepak Raikwar, Hannes Latine, Bruno Pandalone, Benyamin Khoshnevisan, Christian Sonne, Luigi Vaccaro, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Vijai Kumar Gupta, Su Shiung Lam, Junting Pan, Rafael Luque, Bert Sels, Wanxi Peng, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mortaza Aghbashlo
Summary: This review explores the production of biocrude oil from biomass feedstocks through the process of hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). It discusses the impact of process parameters on the quality, quantity, cost, and environmental impacts of biofuels. The review also highlights the challenges and prospects for the future development of biocrude oil.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Meysam Majidi Nezhad, Mehdi Neshat, Georgios Sylaios, Davide Astiaso Garcia
Summary: Digital twins promise innovation for the marine renewable energy sector by using modern technological advances and the existing maritime knowledge frameworks. This research presents critical aspects of digital twin implementation challenges in marine energy digitalization approaches that use and combine data systems.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yeganeh Sharifian, Hamdi Abdi
Summary: This paper discusses the background and objectives of the multi-area economic dispatch problem, as well as various techniques and methods applied in this field. It also covers comprehensive formulations of the problem and important issues in the field of probabilistic MAED, along with some related concepts and suggestions.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
J. G. B. Churchill, V. B. Borugadda, A. K. Dalai
Summary: The increasing global energy demand and the need to reduce fossil fuel reliance have created a demand for renewable and sustainable fuel sources. This review explores the potential of tall oil, a by-product of the pulping industry, as a feedstock for biofuels. The review provides an overview of tall oil production, purification, and treatment, and investigates recent trends and barriers towards tall oil-derived biofuels.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
David C. Broadstock, Xiangnan Wang
Summary: This study provides a general review of research on district cooling, identifying key topics and themes and highlighting potential research priorities for future studies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
L. Scharnhorst, D. Sloot, N. Lehmann, A. Ardone, W. Fichtner
Summary: This study investigates and analyzes the barriers to demand response in industrial and commercial sectors, highlighting their significance. Concerns about diminished product quality, disruptions to production processes, human resource management, and revenue uncertainty are identified as the most frequently cited barriers. Overcoming these barriers requires bridging knowledge gaps, allocating sufficient resources, and adapting external incentives and policies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Tong Feng, Yuechi Sun, Yating Shi, Jie Ma, Chunmei Feng, Zhenni Chen
Summary: Air pollution is a significant global challenge, and policymakers have implemented policies to reduce it. Evaluating the effectiveness of these policies is critical, and our study reveals trends and gaps in air pollution policy research. We found that research has shifted from focusing solely on air pollutants to including methodologies, policies, and health implications. China has emerged as a major contributor in this field of research.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)