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Gulab Singh, Tong Deng, Michael S. A. Bradley and Richard Ellis
Particle degradation of biomass materials can be a severe issue in transportation and material handling because of dust generated. Especially for pneumatic conveying systems, assessment of material degradation in such a large process can be challenging.
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Rafael Font, Estefanía Villar, María Angeles Garrido, Ana Isabel Moreno, María Francisca Gómez-Rico and Nuria Ortuño
Walnut shells can be used as fuels in power plants directly or as biochars obtained by pyrolysis or torrefaction. They are an example of clean waste biomass which shows a low ash content and a high Net Calorific Value, making them excellent for energy re...
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Yuliya Koudryashova, Tatiana Chizhova, Pavel Zadorozhny, Anna Ponomareva and Alena Eskova
The concentrations of 14 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the sediment of the Tatar Trough were studied. Despite the increase in PAH concentrations over recent decades, which is likely the result of the handling and transportation of fossil fue...
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Peyman Alizadeh, Tim Dumonceaux, Lope G. Tabil, Edmund Mupondwa, Majid Soleimani and Duncan Cree
The current study explores steam explosion pre-treatment of wood sawdust to develop high-quality biofuel pellets. In order to determine optimized conditions (temperature and residence time) for steam-treated biomass, seven test responses were chosen, inc...
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Vilma Naujokiene, Rolandas Bleizgys, Kestutis Venslauskas and Simona Paulikiene
One of the problematic sectors according to GHG (greenhouse gas) and ammonia (NH3) emission quantities is agriculture. Without endangering food production (and intensifying), GHG emissions come from all sources in animal husbandry. The aim of this study ...
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Maha Shehadeh, Emily Kwok, Jason Owen and Majid Bahrami
The City of Surrey in British Columbia, Canada has recently launched a district energy network (DEN) to supply residential and commercial buildings in the Surrey Centre area with hot water for space and domestic hot water heating. The network runs on nat...
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Leonel J. R. Nunes, Liliana M. E. F. Loureiro, Letícia C. R. Sá and Hugo F. C. Silva
The sugarcane industry has assumed an increasingly important role at a global level, with countries such as Brazil and India dominating the field. However, this causes environmental problems, since the industry produces large amounts of waste, such as su...
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Sangpil Ko and Pasi Lautala
Co-firing from woody biomass feedstock is one of the alternatives toward increased use of renewable feedstock in existing coal power plants. However, the economic level of co-firing at a particular power plant depends on several site-specific factors. To...
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Pedro Henrique Presumido, Fernando Sousa, Artur Gonçalves, Tatiane Cristina Dal Bosco and Manuel Feliciano
The beef supply chain has multiple negative impacts on the environment. A method widely used to measure impacts from both the use of resources and the emissions generated by this sector is the life cycle assessment (LCA) (ISO 14040). This study aimed to ...
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Denys Yemshanov, Daniel W. McKenney, Emily Hope and Tony Lempriere
Burning forest biomass from renewable sources has been suggested as a viable strategy to help offset greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the energy generation sector. Energy facilities can, in principle, be retrofitted to produce a portion of their energy ...
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