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Wu, F. (author), Muller, Adrian (author), Pfenninger, Stefan (author)Biomass is a growing renewable energy source in Europe and is envisioned to play a role for realising carbon neutrality, predominantly using dedicated energy crops. However, dedicated biomass is controversial for reasons including its competition with food production or its land-use and emissions impacts. Here we examine the potential role of a...journal article 2023
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Blok, K. (author), Ramirez, Andrea (author), Tanzer, S.E. (author)Negative emission technologies such as biomass with carbon capture and storage (bioCCS) may become an important instrument to limit global warming. Currently, estimates of CO2 avoidance cost for bioCCS vary widely. Using a case study of a cement plant, this paper illustrates how this variance is partially attributable to the system boundary...journal article 2023
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Wu, F. (author), Pfenninger, Stefan (author)Bioenergy is currently a major renewable energy source in Europe but faces an unclear future because of conflicting modelling results and the lack of long-term policy. This paper identifies three challenges and potential opportunities by analysing bioenergy's historical national deployment, current policy support, and possible future roles in...review 2023
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Vijay, V. (author), Kapoor, Rimika (author), Priyanka Singh, P. (author), Hiloidhari, Moonmoon (author), Ghosh, Pooja (author)Clean energy transition via utilizing biomass resources has been projected as an important climate change mitigation strategy. A vital characteristic of biomass is its localized nature; therefore, bioenergy utilization should follow decentralized planning. Agrarian countries like India can take benefit of its large agricultural biomass waste...journal article 2022
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Aravind, P.V. (author), Champatan, Vipin (author), Gopi, Girigan (author), Vijay, V. (author), Pande, S. (author), van den Broeke, L.J.P. (author), Shreedhar, S. (author), Nandakishor, T. M. (author), Lindeboom, R.E.F. (author), Posada Duque, J.A. (author)In the face of the rapidly dwindling carbon budgets, negative emission technologies are widely suggested as required to stabilize the Earth’s climate. However, finding cost-effective, socially acceptable, and politically achievable means to enable such technologies remains a challenge. We propose solutions based on negative emission technologies...journal article 2022
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Wilbrink, Jolien (author)Rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the air increase the global temperature since the industrial revolution. Today, there exists a great need to limit global warming, and an energy transition is vital to do so. With the upcoming changes in our energy system, bioenergy is widely discussed, resulting in a heated debate on including or...master thesis 2021
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Al-samet, Mohamed Abdulrahman (author), Goto, Masafumi (author), Mubarak, Nabisab Mujawar (author), Al-Muraisy, S.A.A. (author)The ever-increasing organic waste generation in Malaysia is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, organic wastes can be utilized to produce biogas by anaerobic digestion, which is a promising option for both energy and material recovery from organic wastes with high moisture content. Therefore, this study was...journal article 2021
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García-Depraect, Octavio (author), Muñoz, Raúl (author), van Lier, J.B. (author), Rene, Eldon R. (author), Diaz-Cruces, Víctor F. (author), León-Becerril, Elizabeth (author)This study evaluated a novel three-stage process devoted to the cascade production of lactate, biohydrogen and methane from tequila vinasse (TV), with emphasis on attaining a high and stable biohydrogen production rate (HPR) by utilizing lactate as biohydrogen precursor. In the first stage, tailored operating conditions applied to a sequencing...journal article 2020
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Tanzer, S.E. (author), Blok, K. (author), Ramirez, Andrea (author)This paper explores the potential of achieving negative emissions in steelmaking by introducing bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in multiple steelmaking routes, including blast furnace and HIsarna smelt reduction, and Midrex and ULCORED direct reduction. Process modelling and life cycle assessment were used to estimate CO<sub...journal article 2020
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Echaroj, Snunkhaem (author), Ong, Hwai Chyuan (author), Chen, X. (author)Bioethanol synthesis techniques have been studied intensively due to the energy crisis and various environmental concerns. A two-step bioethanol production process was carried out multiple times in an unbaffled agitator tank. The parameters varied, including the fermentation temperature, the pH level, the amount of yeast, and the impeller type....journal article 2020
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Pabon-Pereira, Claudia (author), Slingerland, Maja (author), Hogervorst, Sanna (author), van Lier, J.B. (author), Rabbinge, Rudy (author)This paper shows how system design determines sustainability outcomes of cassava bioethanol production in Colombia. The recovery of the energy contained in by-products is recommended as compared to single product production. In particular, this study assesses the energy, greenhouse gases, water, and land use performance of alternative cassava...journal article 2019
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van Tol, Maurits (author)Biofuels are inextricably bound up with policy. Various drivers can be identified for the production and consumption of biofuels, such as environmental considerations, energy security and economic development. Therefore, biofuels may be an appealing option to policy makers. Biofuels are in general more expensive to produce than their fossil...master thesis 2017
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Souza, Glaucia Mendes (author), Ballester, Maria Victoria R. (author), de Brito Cruz, Carlos Henrique (author), Chum, Helena (author), Dale, Bruce (author), Dale, Virginia H. (author), Fernandes, Erick C.M. (author), Foust, Tom (author), Karp, Angela (author), Lynd, Lee (author), Osseweijer, P. (author), van der Wielen, L.A.M. (author)Bioenergy has been under intense scrutiny over the last ten years with significant research efforts in many countries taking place to define and measure sustainable practices. We describe here the main challenges and policy issues and provide policy recommendations for scaling up sustainable bioenergy approaches globally. The 2016 Intended...journal article 2017
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Kline, Keith L. (author), Msangi, Siwa (author), Dale, Virginia H. (author), Woods, Jeremy (author), Souza, Glaucia m. (author), Osseweijer, P. (author), Clancy, Joy S. (author), Hilbert, Jorge A. (author), Johnson, Francis X. (author), Mcdonnell, Patrick C. (author), Mugera, Harriet K. (author)Understanding the complex interactions among food security, bioenergy sustainability, and resource management requires a focus on specific contextual problems and opportunities. The United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals place a high priority on food and energy security; bioenergy plays an important role in achieving both goals....journal article 2017
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Di Matteo, Umberto (author), Nastasi, B. (author), Albo, Angelo (author), Astiaso Garcia, Davide (author)Urban waste management is one of the most challenging issues in energy planning of medium and large cities. In addition to the traditional landfill method, many studies are investigating energy harvesting from waste, not as a panacea but as a foreseeable solution. Thermo-chemical conversion to biogas, or even bio-methane under certain...journal article 2017
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Dafnomilis, I. (author), Hoefnagels, Ric (author), Pratama, Yudistira W. (author), Schott, D.L. (author), Lodewijks, G. (author), Junginger, Martin (author)Biomass is the largest source of renewable energy carrier in the European Union (EU) contributing to over 60% of renewable energy, with the majority of supply coming from domestic sources. However, an increasing significant amount of feedstock is imported, either due to domestic undersupply or higher production costs within the country. This...journal article 2017
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Vita, P. (author)Investigation of the factors and uncertainties affecting the European biodiesel market performed through Exploratory Modelling and Analysis. This includes the employment of the EMA Workbench software in order to run numerous computational experiments with a bespoke system dynamics model.master thesis 2015
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Ganzevles, J. (author), Asveld, L. (author), Osseweijer, P. (author)Background While the share of bioenergy in the overall energy supply has increased over the last decade, its social acceptance is fragile, mainly due to concerns about negative sustainability impacts. In this paper, we will investigate to what extent the extension of bioenergy towards ‘smart’ or ‘cascaded’ biomass use enhances a project’s social...journal article 2015
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Davis, C.B. (author), Nikoli?, I. (author), Dijkema, G.P.J. (author)A method is presented that allows for a life cycle assessment (LCA) to provide environmental information on an energy infrastructure system while it evolves. Energy conversion facilities are represented in an agent-based model (ABM) as distinct instances of technologies with owners capable of making decisions based on economic and environmental...journal article 2009
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