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Biomass Thermal Processing
Edited by E Hogan, J Robert, G Grassi and AV Bridgwate
CPL Press
October 1990
Hardcover 255pp ISBN 1872691501
£10.00
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Thermochenmical conversion technologies offer the potential of converting biomass feedstocks into liquid
and chars, either for fuels or as chemical feedstocks, helping to displace the current dependance on fossil
fuels for our energy requirements. Additionally, with the increasing focus on the environment, an opportunity
exists for thermochemical processes to be used to process waste feedstocks such as used tires and industrial
wastes that pose disposal problems, thereby providing an additional economic incentive for the commercialization
of the technology. In the 1980s, both Canada and the EU initiated R&D programmes, that are still running. This
book indicates the priorities set in this area some 15 years ago. At this time a high priority was given to
the commercialization of biomass pyrolysis as a means of obtaining liquid fuels from renewable resources, especially
for electricity generation. Approximately half the EC R&D budget for bioenergy was in this technology area. The
economic viability of these thermochemical process was seen as promising in the near to mid term, and its integration
into conventional energy systems was seen to present no major problems.
With the great similarity between their R&D programs, Canada and the EU established a collaborative
R&D program in this area, in the early 1990s, with the first meeting associated with this collaboration
held in Ottawa in October 1990. Contractors from both programmes gave technical updates on their
research and development activities. The meeting was divided into four technical sessions: process updates;
analytical methods; isolation and separation processes; and economics and market prospects. This forum allowed
for the formal and informal exchange of information and ideas between research groups from Canada and the EC.
This was expected to lead to further Interaction and cooperation in the future, to the benefit of both groups and the
development of thermochemical conversion. This book offers a useful historical perspective of technologies that,
contrary to expectation15 years later, have yet to become of widespread commercial application.
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