Combined Energetic and Material Utilization of Agriculture Residues
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2021) | Viewed by 6844
Special Issue Editors
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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Interests: biogas; anaerobic digestion; waste treatment; solid waste management
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Dear Colleagues,
There is an urgent need of change to a carbon-neutral global economy. Biomass is the hidden champion for this, being the renewable source in the energy sector which fits in all subsectors, such as electricity, heat, vehicle/traffic fuel, industry fuel, and household energy. Furthermore, for all these subsectors, there is state-of-the-art technology available for an urgent transition as well as ongoing research which allows an enhancement of efficiency, sustainability, resilience, comfort, and win-win situations for other sustainable development goals. An important aspect in the range of renewables is the storability and flexible cross-sectoral use of biomass, which allows its use as “smart bioenergy” in applications with difficulties for other renewables.
The use of agricultural residues does not affect the often-critical discussed complex areas of fuel–feed–fiber–food competition, of land use change (LUC) or indirect land use change (ILUC), which means the clearing of forest or plowing of grasslands to generate cropland, unsustainable intensification of pesticides, enhanced fertilizer application, etc.
This way, the use of agricultural residues can overcome concerns regarding bioenergy and bioeconomy. Agricultural residues belong to the most underused mass flows with the highest potential for future development, especially, when taking into account sustainability issues. However, even residual biomass resources are limited, and agricultural residues play an important role in maintaining soil fertility. With respect to this, circular strategies with optimal material and energetic use of biomass, with recirculation of nutrients and carbon sources for humus reproduction (e.g., digestate), as well as combined strategies, are part of future solutions.
In the subchapters “Potentials and Utilization Options of Agricultural Residues”, “Pretreatment of Agricultural Residue Utilization for Anaerobic Digestion”, “Generation of Energy, Fertilizer, and Industrial Raw Materials from Agricultural Residues”, “Processing of Agricultural Residues for Energy and Mineral Raw Materials”, “Using Agricultural Residues for Energy Generation and Carbon Sequestration”, “2nd Generation of Biofuels from Agricultural Residues”, and “Other Uses of Agricultural Residues”, the multiple options of using agricultural residues in accordance with sustainable development goals will be shown.
Prof. Dr. Walter Stinner
Dr. Jianbin Guo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioenergy
- 2nd-generation biofuels
- biogas
- biomethane
- 0 ILUC
- biochemical conversion
- thermochemical conversion
- circular economy
- smart bioenergy
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