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Biomass Energy – Technology, Use in Production Processes, Economic and Environmental Benefits
Various authors, scientific coordination team: Roberto Jodice and Elisa Tomasinsig
Biomass is the most sophisticated form of accumulating solar energy. In fact, thanks to photosynthesis, plants are able to convert radiation energy into chemical energy and store it inside molecules with a high energy content.
This renewable and infinite resource does not just comprise materials of plant origin, but also of animal origin, from forestry, agricultural, zootechnical and industrial divisions, including the biodegradable part of wastes. Different biomasses have very different chemical and physical properties and can be used in a number of different ways for energy purposes.
The technological innovations of recent decades have focused attention on the huge potential offered not just in the heating sector, but also in the electrical and thermal energy cogeneration production sector, the biogas sector and, above all, the biofuels sector.
Written in manual form, this volume provides a broad picture of the nature and properties of biomass and its derivative fuels, as well as the potential offered by the various energy exploitation technologies (yield, potential for use, critical factors) and the profitability of investments. The reader is able to judge the feasibility of various implementation hypotheses himself / herself, thanks to the presentation of examples of applications of the technology in question, on the basis of experience gained in Friuli-Venezia Giulia and other regions of Italy.
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