Renewable biomass utilization: A way forward to establish sustainable chemical and processing industries

YN Guragain, PV Vadlani - Clean Technologies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks are promising alternatives to fossil fuels for meeting raw
material needs of processing industries and helping transit from a linear to a circular …

Water for energy: Characterizing co‐evolving energy and water systems under twin climate and energy system nonstationarities

E Grubert, A Marshall - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The energy system is a major water user, but understanding how much water is consumed
and withdrawn for energy is a challenging empirical task: nonevaporative volumetric water …

Targeted subfield switchgrass integration could improve the farm economy, water quality, and bioenergy feedstock production

E Brandes, GS McNunn, LA Schulte, DJ Muth… - GCB …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Progress on reducing nutrient loss from annual croplands has been hampered by perceived
conflicts between short‐term profitability and long‐term stewardship, but these may be …

A life cycle analysis (LCA) primer for the agricultural community

H Sieverding, E Kebreab, JMF Johnson, H Xu… - Agronomy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Consumer demand for sustainably produced agricultural products is increasing. One
approach that can be used to evaluate and compare product sustainability is to conduct a …

Land management change greatly impacts biofuels' greenhouse gas emissions

Z Qin, CE Canter, JB Dunn, S Mueller, H Kwon… - GCB …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Harvesting corn stover for biofuel production may decrease soil organic carbon (SOC) and
increase greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Adding additional organic matter into soil or …

Near-Critical CO2-Assisted Liquefaction-Extraction of Biomass and Wastes to Fuels and Value-Added Products

KRG Burra, M Sahin, Y Zheng… - Journal of Energy …, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
With the growing need for sustainable carbon-neutral liquid fuels, low-grade feedstocks,
such as lignocellulosic biomass, and municipal solid wastes offer sufficient potential via …

The Economic Accessibility of CO2 Sequestration through Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) in the US

M Langholtz, I Busch, A Kasturi, MR Hilliard… - Land, 2020 - mdpi.com
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is one strategy to remove CO2 from
the atmosphere. To assess the potential scale and cost of CO2 sequestration from BECCS in …

Land management and climate change determine second‐generation bioenergy potential of the US Northern Great Plains

KA Dolan, PC Stoy, B Poulter - GCB Bioenergy, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) has been proposed as a potential
climate mitigation strategy raising concerns over trade‐offs with existing ecosystem services …

Potential socioeconomic and environmental effects of an expanding US bioeconomy: an assessment of near-commercial cellulosic biofuel pathways

P Lamers, AF T. Avelino, Y Zhang… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This paper showcases the suitability of an environmentally extended input–output
framework to provide macroeconomic analyses of an expanding bioeconomy to allow for …

Deacetylation and mechanical refining (DMR) and deacetylation and dilute acid (DDA) pretreatment of corn stover, switchgrass, and a 50: 50 corn stover/switchgrass …

EM Kuhn, X Chen, MP Tucker - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The most economical feedstock available to future lignocellulosic biorefineries may be a
feedstock blend. Corn stover, switchgrass, and a 50: 50 blend of corn stover and switchgrass …