Agricultural Biomass Generation and Utilization: Progress, Challenges and Prospects
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 March 2025 | Viewed by 978
Special Issue Editors
2. College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: assessment of agricultural biowaste generation, valorization, and treatment; bioenergy; pellet and briquette; combustion; clean heating; hydro-thermal conversion; biochar; biogas; biogas digestates; slurry; acidification; field application; insect protein; greenhouse gas; climate change; green development; sustainability
Interests: agricultural residues utilization; bioeconomy in multifunctional agricultural systems; emission (esp. GHG) reduction management (agriculture, manure, digestate and compost chains, energy system); waste 2 energy+fertilizer; marginal land plants; treatment; valorization; bioenergy; biogas; biogas digestates and plant nutrition; climate change; green development; sustainability; process chains from cradle to resource; business and management options; improved renewable energy systems
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Dear Colleagues,
Agricultural biomass is here thought to be the non-edible biological substances that are generated during agricultural production and produced on marginal land, including but not limited to crop residues, pruning waste, fruit and vegetable lefts, dead livestock and poultry and manure, and marginal land plants.
Agricultural biomass used to be fundamental resources for energy, feed, and fertilizer for thousands of years around the world. Currently, agricultural biomass is recognized to be a critical source of methane emission, which on the other hand could be collected in the form of advanced renewable energy to support the phasing out of fossil fuels. Further, agricultural biomass is a green source of feed, fiber, fertilizer, and soil organic matter.
This Special Issue aims to collect the most recent studies, including original research, opinions, and reviews, on the technical solutions and methods adopted for the assessment, treatment, valorization of agricultural biomass generation, in addition to technical–social–economic analyses.
The Special Issue invites submissions of papers covering a broad range of topics, including but not limited to the following:
- Agricultural biomass generation assessment;
- Agricultural biomass properties and characteristics;
- Solid biofuels and utilization (pelletizing, gasification, pyrolysis, household stoves, power generation, etc.);
- Biochar (production, field application, etc.);
- Composting;
- Anaerobic digestion and digestates valorization;
- Manure acidification;
- Field application of manure, compost, and biogas digestates;
- Hydrothermal carbonization;
- GHG emissions accounting and reduction;
- Value-added utilization of agricultural biomass (feed, insect protein, single-cell protein, etc.);
- Technical–social–economic analyses.
Prof. Dr. Renjie Dong
Prof. Dr. Walter Stinner
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agricultural biowastes
- marginal land plants
- assessment, treatment, and valorization
- bioenergy, pellet, and briquette
- biogas
- gasification
- pyrolysis
- combustion
- biochar
- hydro-thermal conversion
- power generation
- compost
- biogas digestates
- acidification
- biofertilizer
- soil conditioner
- value-added valorization
- feed
- insect protein
- single-cell protein
- soil quality
- greenhouse gas
- climate change
- green development
- sustainability
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