Efficiency of Biomass Energy – An Exergy Approach to Biofuels, Power, and Biorefineries by Ptasinski, K;

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Covering energy and exergy efficiencies of all main aspects of biomass energy

It is widely acknowledged that the existing fossil fuels should be replaced in future by renewable energy such as biomass, solar, wind, and geothermal. At present biomass is the fourth largest energy resource in the world, after oil, gas and coal. Biomass can be converted into all major energy carriers like electricity, heat, transport fuels as well as a wide diversity of chemicals and materials which are presently produced from fossil fuels.

Efficiency of Biomass Energy provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of energy and exergy efficiencies together with environmental and economic aspects of biomass energy systems. The book emphasizes the modern exergy (energy quality) approach applied to design and improve bioenergy systems.

This text is the first to discuss the efficiency of all main steps involved in biomass production and conversion. The major features of Efficiency of Biomass Energy are:

• Bioenergy processes covered in separate chapters which are organized in a logical order starting from photosynthesis and cultivation of biomass feedstocks and ending with final products, like power, biofuels, and chemicals


• Each chapter includes historical developments, chemistry, major technologies, applications as well as energy, environmental and economic aspects, also serving as an introduction to bioenergy for students and professionals


• A separate chapter introduces a beginner in easy accessible way to exergy analysis and the similarities and differences between energy and exergy efficiencies are underlined


• Includes case studies and illustrative examples of 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd generation biofuels production, power and heat generation (thermal plants, fuel cells, boilers), and biorefineries


• Traditional fossil fuels–based technologies are also described to compare with the corresponding bioenergy systems.

Split into four parts the book details the energy and exergy efficiencies of biomass energy. The first part, Background and Outline, introduces a beginner to biomass energy and exergy analysis; the second part, Biomass Production and Conversion covers energy and exergy analyses of the initial steps of bioenergy chains like photosynthesis, biomass cultivation, and gasification; Biofuels, the third part, details energy and exergy analyses of biofuels production; finally Bioenergy Systems presents analyses of integrated biomass energy systems, like power plants, fuels, and biorefineries.

The book is intended for a wide audience in the field of energy, particularly renewable energy, biomass and bioenergy, including industrial people (energy and chemical professionals, R&D, practicing engineers and technical managers); fuel and automobile engineers; agricultural professionals. The content of this book is multidisciplinary and it can be useful for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers in Energy, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Agricultural Engineering. The book is also addressed to government employees: energetic, environmental, agricultural, and economic policy makers.

Hosszú leírás:

Details energy and exergy efficiencies of all major aspects of bioenergy systems
* Covers all major bioenergy processes starting from photosynthesis and cultivation of biomass feedstocks and ending with final bioenergy products, like power, biofuels, and chemicals
* Each chapter includes historical developments, chemistry, major technologies, applications as well as energy, environmental and economic aspects in order to serve as an introduction to biomass and bioenergy
* A separate chapter introduces a beginner in easy accessible way to exergy analysis and the similarities and differences between energy and exergy efficiencies are underlined
* Includes case studies and illustrative examples of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation biofuels production, power and heat generation (thermal plants, fuel cells, boilers), and biorefineries
* Traditional fossil fuels-based technologies are also described in order to compare with the corresponding bioenergy systems