Evaluation of the methane potential of different agricultural and food processing substrates for improved biogas production in rural areas

NH Garcia, A Mattioli, A Gil, N Frison, F Battista… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Anaerobic Digestion is largely applied in the rural context because of its capability of
stabilizing the organic matter while recovering biogas, thus renewable energy, and a …

Investigating energy and environmental issues of agro-biogas derived energy systems: A comprehensive review of Life Cycle Assessments

C Ingrao, J Bacenetti, J Adamczyk, V Ferrante… - Renewable Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
This literature review was built upon recently published articles on Life Cycle Assessments
(LCAs) of agricultural biogas plants, to: enhance understanding of the relevant literature in …

[HTML][HTML] Bioeconomy for sustainable development of biomethane sector: Potential and challenges for agro-industrial by-products

F Valenti, R Selvaggi, B Pecorino, SMC Porto - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Agro-industrial transformation chains generate huge amounts of by-products which can be
used as biomass for anaerobic digestion (AD) process, by avoiding their disposal in landfill …

A Geographical Information System (GIS) based approach for assessing the spatial distribution and seasonal variation of biogas production potential from agricultural …

A Lovrak, T Pukšec, N Duić - Applied energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Bioenergy can be produced from a wide range of feedstocks and can be utilised for
production of renewable electricity, thermal energy, chemicals or transportation fuels …

Life cycle assessment of agro-industrial by-product reuse: a comparison between anaerobic digestion and conventional disposal treatments

F Valenti, W Liao, SMC Porto - Green Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Different treatments of six selected Mediterranean agro-industrial by-products, ie, citrus pulp,
olive pomace cattle and poultry manure, whey and silage, were investigated through LCA …

Spatial analysis of feedstock supply and logistics to establish regional biogas power generation: A case study in the region of Sicily

F Valenti, SMC Porto, BE Dale, W Liao - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2018 - Elsevier
A hypothetical regional biogas power generation system based on multiple biomass
feedstocks for the Catania province in Sicily was developed. A three-step approach of data …

Bioenergy from anaerobic digestion plants: Energy and environmental assessment of a wide sample of Italian plants

M Mistretta, TM Gulotta, P Caputo, M Cellura - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study assesses the energy and environmental performances of electricity produced
from Italian anaerobic digestion coupled with combined heat and power plants. The Life …

Co-digestion of by-products and agricultural residues: A bioeconomy perspective for a Mediterranean feedstock mixture

F Valenti, SMC Porto, R Selvaggi, B Pecorino - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study focused on applying batch and continuous co-digestion approaches to
investigate the effects of a feedstock mixture (FM) constituted by ten Mediterranean …

Biomethane production potential in Southern Italy: An empirical approach

G Pappalardo, R Selvaggi, B Pecorino - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2022 - Elsevier
The European energy policy promotes the production of biomethane from biogas, and so
many plants are reconverting from electricity to biomethane. This study has estimated the …

Evaluation of biomethane potential from by-products and agricultural residues co-digestion in southern Italy

F Valenti, SMC Porto, R Selvaggi, B Pecorino - Journal of environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
The suitability of the co-digestion of feedstock-mixtures (by-products and agricultural
residues) depends on their ability to produce biogas. In this study, the effects of mixing five …