Biomass Supply Chains for Bioenergy and Biorefining

Biomass Supply Chains for Bioenergy and Biorefining highlights the emergence of energy generation through the use of biomass and the ways it is becoming more widely used. The supply chains that produce the feedstocks, harvest, transport, store, and prepare them for combustion or refinement into other forms of fuel are long and complex, often differing from feedstock to feedstock. Biomass Supply Chains for Bioenergy and Biorefining considers every aspect of these supply chains, including their design, management, socioeconomic, and environmental impacts. The first part of the book introduces supply chains, biomass feedstocks, and their analysis, while the second part looks at the harvesting, handling, storage, and transportation of biomass. The third part studies the modeling of supply chains and their management, with the final section discussing, in minute detail, the supply chains involved in the production and usage of individual feedstocks, such as wood and sugar starches, oil crops, industrial biomass wastes, and municipal sewage stocks. Focuses on the complex supply chains of the various potential feedstocks for biomass energy generationStudies a wide range of biomass feedstocks, including woody energy crops, sugar and starch crops, lignocellulosic crops, oil crops, grass crops, algae, and biomass wasteReviews the modeling and optimization, standards, quality control and traceability, socioeconomic, and environmental impacts of supply chains INDICE: Part 1: Biomass resources, supply chains and markets 1. Introduction to biomass supply chains 2. Biomass feedstocks 3. Biomass resource assessment 4. Biomass supply, demand and markets Part 2: Biomass harvesting, handling, storage and transportation 5. Biomass harvesting and collection 6. Biomass Storage Part 3: Biomass and biofuel supply chain design and management 7. Biomass and biofuel supply chain modelling and optimization 8. Biomass and biofuel supply chain design and management 9. Socio-economic and environmental impacts of biomass and biofuel supply chains Part 4: Particular biomass supply chains 10. Wood and short rotation woody energy crop supply chains (e.g. hybrid poplars, shrub willows)  11. Sugar and starch crop supply chains (e.g. sugar beet and wheat) 12. Lignocellulosic crop supply chains (e.g. miscanthus, switchgrass, reed canary grass, rye, giant reed etc) 13. Grass crop supply chains (permanent grassland and rotational grassland) 14. Algae supply chains 15. Forestry and agricultural residues supply chains 16. Manure and municipal sewage biomass supply chains

• ISBN: 978-1-78242-366-9
• Editorial: Woodhead Publishing
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 466
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés