Biofuel Cropping Systems

Author : Hans Langeveld,John Dixon,Herman van Keulen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781134624775

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Biofuel Cropping Systems by Hans Langeveld,John Dixon,Herman van Keulen Pdf

Choosing appropriate practices and policies for biofuel production requires an understanding of how soils, climate, farm types, infrastructure, markets and social organisation affect the establishment and performance of these crops. The book highlights land use dynamics, cultivation practices related to conversion and wider impacts. It explores how biofuel production chain development is steered by emerging technologies and management practices and how both can be influenced by effective policies designed to encourage sustainable biofuel production. The book highlights major biofuel production chains including: cane cultivation in Brazil corn ethanol in the USA wheat and rapeseed in Europe oil palm in the Far East cane in Asia and Africa SRC and other lignocellulosic crops. In each case the development, cropping systems and impacts are discussed, system dynamics are shown and lessons drawn for the way things could or should change. Biofuel Cropping Systems is a vital resource for all those who want to understand the way biofuels are produced and how they impact other elements of society and especially how improvements can be made. It is a handbook for students, biofuel producers, researchers and policymakers in energy and agriculture.

Author : Bharat P. Singh
Publisher : CABI
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781845938857

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Biofuel Crops by Bharat P. Singh Pdf

Providing comprehensive coverage on biofuel crop production and the technological, environmental and resource issues associated with a sustainable biofuel industry, this book is ideal for researchers and industry personnel. Beginning with an introduction to biofuels and the challenges they face, the book then includes detailed coverage on crops of current importance or with high future prospects, including sections on algae, sugar crops and grass, oil and forestry species. The chapters focus on the genetics, breeding, cultivation, harvesting and handling of each crop.

Author : Douglas L. Karlen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118676325

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Cellulosic Energy Cropping Systems by Douglas L. Karlen Pdf

Cellulosic Energy Cropping Systems presents a comprehensive overview of how cellulosic energy crops can be sustainably produced and converted to affordable energy through liquid fuels, heat and electricity. The book begins with an introduction to cellulosic feedstocks, discussing their potential as a large-scale sustainable energy source, and technologies for the production of liquid fuels, heat and electricity. Subsequent chapters examine miscanthus, switchgrass, sugarcane and energy cane, sorghums and crop residues, reviewing their phylogeny, cultural practices, and opportunities for genetic improvement. This is followed by a detailed focus on woody crops, including eucalyptus, pine, poplar and willow. Critical logistical issues associated with both herbaceous and woody feedstocks are reviewed, and alternate strategies for harvesting, transporting, and storing cellulosic materials are also examined. The final sectionof the booktackles the challenge of achieving long-term sustainability, addressing economic, environmental and social factors. Cellulosic Energy Cropping Systems is a valuable resource for academics, students and industry professionals working in the field of biomass cultivation and conversion, bioenergy, crop science and agriculture. Topics covered include: Identifying suitable cellulosic energy crops that are adapted to a wide range of climates and soils Best management practices for sustainably growing, harvesting, storing, transporting and pre-processing these crops The development of integrated cellulosic energy cropping systems for supplying commercial processing plants Challenges and opportunities for the long-term sustainability of cellulosic energy crops This book was conceived and initiated by David I. Bransby, Professor of Energy and Forage Crops in the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences at Auburn University, USA. For more information on the Wiley Series in Renewable Resources, visit www.wiley.com/go/rrs

Author : Stephanie Lyn Smith
Publisher : ProQuest
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Agriculturally marginal land
ISBN : MSU:31293030626315

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Bioenergy Cropping Systems on Marginal Land by Stephanie Lyn Smith Pdf

Author : Sander C. de Vries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Energy crops
ISBN : 9461731175

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Resource Use Efficiency and Environmental Performance of Biofuel Cropping Systems by Sander C. de Vries Pdf

Author : Eric Lichtfouse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400715219

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Genetics, Biofuels and Local Farming Systems by Eric Lichtfouse Pdf

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children. This discipline addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, starvation, obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. Novel solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, philosophy and social sciences. As actual society issues are now intertwined, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series analyzes current agricultural issues and proposes alternative solutions, consequently helping all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians wishing to build safe agriculture, energy and food systems for future generations.

Author : Bharat Singh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470963043

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Biofuel Crop Sustainability by Bharat Singh Pdf

Biofuel Crop Sustainability brings together the basic principles of agricultural sustainability and special stipulations for biofuels, from the economic and ecological opportunities and challenges of sustainable biofuel crop production to the unique characteristics of particular crops which make them ideal for biofuel applications. This book will be a valuable resource for researchers and professionals involved in biofuels development and production as well as agriculture industry personnel. Chapters focus the broad principles of resource management for ecological, environmental and societal welfare, the sustainability issues pertaining to several broad categories of biofuel crops , as well as the economics and profitability of biofuels on both a local and international scale. Coverage includes topics such as utilizing waste water for field crop irrigation and algae production, reliability of feedstock supply, marginal lands, and identifying crops with traits of significance for survival and growth on low fertility soils. The development of production practices with low external inputs of fertilizer, irrigation, and pesticides is also covered. Biofuel Crop Sustainability will be a valuable, up-to-date reference for all those involved in the rapidly expanding biofuels industry and sustainable agriculture research fields.

Author : Olivier Réchauchère,Antonio Bispo,Benoît Gabrielle,David Makowski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319962894

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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 30 by Olivier Réchauchère,Antonio Bispo,Benoît Gabrielle,David Makowski Pdf

The originality of this book is to review and characterize the current body of scientific publications that describe the complete causal sequence from reorganization of agricultural production to land use changes (LUC) and the resulting environmental impacts. The chapters examine both the range of territorial reorganizations leading to LUC and the range of associated environmental impacts considered in the literature, including GHG emissions, atmospheric pollution, biodiversity impacts, water resources, and soil quality.

Author : Ryan Scott Stenjem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:840822259

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Subsurface Water and Nutrient Dynamics of Cellulosic Biofuel Cropping Systems by Ryan Scott Stenjem Pdf

Author : Von Mark V. Cruz,David A. Dierig
Publisher : Springer
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781493914470

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Industrial Crops by Von Mark V. Cruz,David A. Dierig Pdf

The volume on Industrial Crop Breeding will be part of the series, Handbook of Plant Breeding. This volume will focus on the emerging area of plant breeding for sustainable production of transportation fuels and bio based products using the current advances in the field. The book is scheduled to consist of a total number of 30 chapters divided into four sections. The sections will emphasize crops being considered for different challenge areas including oil crops for biodiesel; sugar, starch and cellulosic crops for biofuel; crops for bio products and issues and future prospects. A chapter introducing the first three sections will also be included. Outstanding scientists for each crop species are proposed as senior authors, who may invite co-authors to contribute part of a chapter to provide additional expertise or perspective. The proposed authors will represent various national and international institutions to get a more diverse view on the topic and somehow get a global view on the common issues that researchers on industrial crops are facing. The book will comprise primarily of specific issues, available germplasm, breeding techniques, and potential geographical areas of production pertaining to individual crops being considered for industrial uses. We hope to encourage the proposed authors of new crops to provide an estimate of the crop readiness for commercial development and discuss the limitations. This book will be will be of interest and envisioned to serve as an updated reference to researchers in both academic and industrial setting, to students and teachers of plant breeding and to policy makers who are looking for alternative solutions to dependency on imported petroleum products.

Author : Ajay Kumar Bhardwaj,Terenzio Zenone,Jiquan Chen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783110381337

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Sustainable Biofuels by Ajay Kumar Bhardwaj,Terenzio Zenone,Jiquan Chen Pdf

With oil resources approaching their limits, biofuels have become increasingly attractive. This book provides a detailed description of the ecological implications of second and third generation biofuel feedstock production systems, beginning with an introduction to the importance of ecological sustainability alongside economic viability. The book is divided into sections describing theoretical foundation and benefits of various biofuel cropping systems, and providing a description of practical ecological limitations to achieve those fundamental benefits. The book covers such critical issues as greenhouse gas emissions, carbon balance, water cycle components, other biogeochemical and socioeconomic interactions alongside life cycle analysis principals for achieving sustainability. These are some of the most important sustainability, environmental and economic issues which biofuel industry and scientific community is seeking answers to.

Author : Mario Giampietro,Kozo Mayumi
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849770200

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The Biofuel Delusion by Mario Giampietro,Kozo Mayumi Pdf

Faced with the twin threats of peak oil and climate change, many governments have turned for an answer to the apparent panacea of biofuels. Yet, increasingly, the progressive implementation of this solution demonstrates that the promise of biofuels as a replacement to fossil fuels is in fact a mirage that, if followed, risks leaving us short of power, short of food and doing as much damage to the climate as ever -- let alone the consequent impact on biodiversity due to additional loss of habitat for agricultural production and on rural development due to the additional stress on traditional farming systems. Worse still, these risks are being ignored.In this definitive expos?, Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi present a theoretical framework and exhaustive evidence for the case against large scale biofuel production from agricultural crops. This book will be vital, sobering reading for anyone concerned with energy or agricultural policy, or bioenergy as a complex system."

Author : Eric Lichtfouse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9400715226

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Genetics, Biofuels and Local Farming Systems by Eric Lichtfouse Pdf

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children. This discipline addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, starvation, obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. Novel solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, philosophy and social sciences. As actual society issues are now intertwined, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series analyzes current agricultural issues and proposes alternative solutions, consequently helping all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians wishing to build safe agriculture, energy and food systems for future generations.

Author : Alex Baumber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317559009

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Bioenergy Crops for Ecosystem Health and Sustainability by Alex Baumber Pdf

The growing of crops for bioenergy has been subject to much recent criticism, as taking away land which could be used for food production or biodiversity conservation. This book challenges some commonly-held ideas about biofuels, bioenergy and energy cropping, particularly that energy crops pose an inherent threat to ecosystems, which must be mitigated. The book recognises that certain energy crops (e.g. oil palm for biodiesel) have generated sustainability concerns, but also asks the question "is there a better way?" of using energy crops to strategically enhance ecosystem functions. It draws on numerous case studies, including where energy crops have had negative outcomes as well as well as cases where energy crops have produced benefits for ecosystem health, such as soil and water protection from the cropping of willow and poplar in Europe and the use of mallee eucalypts to fight salinity in Western Australia. While exploring this central argument, the volume also provides a systematic overview of the socio-economic sustainability issues surrounding bioenergy.

Author : Chittaranjan Kole,Chandrashekhar P. Joshi,David R. Shonnard
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439816851

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Handbook of Bioenergy Crop Plants by Chittaranjan Kole,Chandrashekhar P. Joshi,David R. Shonnard Pdf

As the world's population is projected to reach 10 billion or more by 2100, devastating fossil fuel shortages loom in the future unless more renewable alternatives to energy are developed. Bioenergy, in the form of cellulosic biomass, starch, sugar, and oils from crop plants, has emerged as one of the cheaper, cleaner, and environmentally sustainab