Technologies for Converting Biomass to Useful Energy

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Technologies for Converting Biomass to Useful Energy

Combustion, Gasification, Pyrolysis, Torrefaction and Fermentation

Biotechnology Process engineering technology and techniques Biofuels

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Collection: Sustainable Energy Developments

Language: English

Published by: CRC Press

Published on: 16th April 2013

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9781136320101


Biomass Energy Usage

Officially, the use of biomass for energy meets only 10-13% of the total global energy demand of 140,000 TWh per year. Still, thirty years ago the official figure was zero, as only traded biomass was included.

While the actual production of biomass is in the range of 270,000 TWh per year, most of this is not used for energy purposes, and mostly it

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