Perennial Grasses for Bioenergy and Bioproducts: Production, Uses, Sustainability and Markets for Giant Reed, Miscanthus, Switchgrass, Reed Canary Grass and Bamboo

Perennial Grasses for Bioenergy and Bioproducts brings together a team of international authors to explore the current utilization, sustainability and future perspectives of perennial grasses in the bioeconomy. The book starts out by examining the role of these crops as feedstock for bioenergy, in particular advanced biofuels, and bioproducts. It then offers five chapters, each covering one perennial grass type, namely giant reed, miscanthus, switchgrass, reed canary grass and bamboo. They include their breeding, cultivation, harvesting, pre-treatment, economics, and characterization. It goes on to present the thermochemical conversion pathways for this type of feedstock. Finally, its last chapter explores the issues concerning sustainability of perennial grasses, including their production in marginal lands. This thorough overview is a helpful reference for engineering researchers and professionals in the bioenergy sector, whose understanding of feedstock characterization, sustainability and production is critical in the development of conversion technologies. Those in the industrial crops sector will find the issues surrounding crop production which can guide their feedstock cultivation, harvesting and pre-treatment for specific conversion process or end use. It is also a useful resource for instructors and students in Masters and PhD programs in the area of biomass and energy crops. Policy makers and government agents involved in regulating the bioenergy and bioproducts sector will find comprehensive information to guide their decision making. Explores the whole value chain of grassy feedstock for advanced biofuels and bioproducts, from cultivation to end use, including biomass characterization (physical properties, chemical composition, etc.), conversion and sustainabilityExamines the sustainability and economic factors related to perennial grasses and their conversion into biofuels and bioproductsIncludes a complete list of grasses relevant for energy uses, and tables with their current and expected future uses and markets INDICE: 1. The importance of perennial grasses as feedstock for biobased products and Bioenergy 2. Miscanthus: from production to end use 3. Switchgrass: from production to end use 4. Giant reed: from production to end use 5. Reed canary grass: from production to end use 6. Bamboo: from production to end use 7. Bioenergy and biobased products 8. Perennial Grasses Sustainability and Production on Marginal Land

• ISBN: 978-0-12-812900-5
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés