Biomass supply chain design and analysis: Basis, overview, modeling, challenges, and future

B Sharma, RG Ingalls, CL Jones, A Khanchi - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2013 - Elsevier
Biofuels are identified as the potential solution for depleting fossil fuel reserves, increasing
oil prices, and providing a clean, renewable energy source. The major barrier preventing the …

Importance of volatile–char interactions during the pyrolysis and gasification of low-rank fuels–a review

CZ Li - Fuel, 2013 - Elsevier
Volatile–char interactions are an important phenomenon in almost all existing gasification
processes. The volatile–char interactions can very significantly affect almost every aspect of …

Biochar as a fuel: 1. Properties and grindability of biochars produced from the pyrolysis of mallee wood under slow-heating conditions

H Abdullah, H Wu - Energy & fuels, 2009 - ACS Publications
Biomass as a fuel suffers from its bulky, fibrous, high moisture content and low-energy-
density nature, leading to key issues including high transport cost and poor biomass …

[HTML][HTML] Development of nickel based cermet anode materials in solid oxide fuel cells–Now and future

Y Liu, Z Shao, T Mori - Materials Reports: Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
High temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is the most efficient and clean energy
conversion technology to electrochemically convert the chemical energy of fuels such as …

Effect of alkali and alkaline earth metallic species on biochar reactivity and syngas compositions during steam gasification

K Yip, F Tian, J Hayashi, H Wu - Energy & Fuels, 2010 - ACS Publications
Biochars were prepared from the pyrolysis of the wood, leaf, and bark components of mallee
biomass in a fixed-bed reactor at 750° C. The results show that the volatilization of inherent …

Strategic design and investment capacity planning of the ethanol supply chain under price uncertainty

M Dal-Mas, S Giarola, A Zamboni, F Bezzo - Biomass and bioenergy, 2011 - Elsevier
Fossil fuel depletion and the increase of greenhouse gases emissions has been pushing the
search for alternative fuels for automotive transport. The European Union has identified …

A GIS-based method for identifying the optimal location for a facility to convert forest biomass to biofuel

F Zhang, DM Johnson, JW Sutherland - biomass and bioenergy, 2011 - Elsevier
There is growing interest in the production of biofuels from woody biomass. Critical to the
financial success of producing biofuel is identifying the optimal location for the facility. The …

Spatially explicit multi-objective optimisation for design and planning of hybrid first and second generation biorefineries

S Giarola, A Zamboni, F Bezzo - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2011 - Elsevier
Climate change mitigation has become a binding driver in biofuels production. First
generation bioethanol, initially indicated as the most competitive option, is now incurring in …

Catalytic reforming of tar during gasification. Part I. Steam reforming of biomass tar using ilmenite as a catalyst

Z Min, M Asadullah, P Yimsiri, S Zhang, H Wu, CZ Li - Fuel, 2011 - Elsevier
Ilmenite, a natural iron-containing mineral, has been investigated as an inexpensive catalyst
for the steam reforming of volatiles (tar) from the pyrolysis of mallee woody biomass. The …

Multi-period synthesis of optimally integrated biomass and bioenergy supply network

L Čuček, M Martín, IE Grossmann, Z Kravanja - Computers & Chemical …, 2014 - Elsevier
This contribution addresses the multi-period synthesis of an optimally integrated regional
biomass and bioenergy supply network through a mixed-integer linear programing (MILP) …