A life cycle energy use, CO 2 emissions and cost input evaluation of a 650 MW Biomass Chemical Looping Gasification Combined Cycle (BCLGCC) Biomass/Coal Integrated (BIGCC/CIGCC) power generation plants with without (w/o) capture & storage (CCS) are analysed. These were then compared to coal/biomass combustion technologies. The covers the whole process including biomass/coal supply chain, electr...

Phytic acid (PA) is a major source of inorganic phosphate (Pi) in the soil; however, the plant lacks the capacity to utilize it for Pi nutrition and growth. Microbial phytases constitute a group of enzymes that are able to remobilize Pi from PA. Thus, the use of these phytases to increase the capacity of higher plants to remobilize Pi from PA is of agronomical interest. In the current study, we...

Co-firing ramie residue with coal was carried out in a thermogravimetric analyzer and a cyclone furnace to evaluate the effects of coal fraction (0 to 30 wt. %) on combustion performance. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) results showed that devolatilisation was the predominant process when the coal percentage in the blend was below 30 wt. %. For pure biomass firing in the cyclone furnace, an op...

Spent coffee grounds (SCG) are industrial biowaste resulting from the coffee-brewing process, and they often underutilized end up in landfills, thereby leading to emission of toxic gases environmental damage. Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) is an attractive approach valorize wet biomass such as SCG valuable bioproducts (i.e., hydrochar). Thus, this work, HTC was carried out a 500 L stainless s...

Parasitic plants have major impacts on plant community structure through their direct negative influence on host productivity and competitive ability. However, the possibility that these parasites may also have indirect impacts on community structure (via the mechanism of nutrient-rich litter input) while long hypothesized, has remained unsupported until now. Using the hemiparasite Rhinanthus m...

In the present work, the ash transformation and deposition behavior during wheat straw and wood waste combustion were investigated by combustion experiments in an entrained flow reactor. The influence of sewage sludge addition on ash chemistry and deposition tendency was also studied. During combustion wheat straw, fine fly ash particles smaller than 2.5 μm are mainly formed due to vaporization...

The need to reduce CO2 emissions forces the use of biomass as a fuel in conventional energy conversion process implemented by combustion. Burning alone can be problematic because high potential for slugging and fouling on boiler heating surfaces. Therefore, co-firing with coal is used. This article presents results study blends barley, straw, hard from Polish Makoszowy mine. sintering ash bioma...