Forest Dendromass as Energy Feedstock: Diversity of Properties and Composition Depending on Systematic Genus and Organ

Mariusz Jerzy Stolarski,Paweł Dudziec,Ewelina Olba-Zięty,Paweł Stachowicz,Michał Krzyżaniak

doi:10.3390/en15041442

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Journal: Energies	Publication Date: Feb 16, 2022
Citations: 6	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Abstract

Exhaustion of fossil fuel resources, shrinking forest areas, with accompanying deterioration of their quality and striving (also of the society) to make forests perform their ecological function, with simultaneous development and propagation of the biomass conversion technologies—all of this necessitates research of forest biomass diversification. It is a consequence of the fact that its properties and composition depend not only on the genus but also on the plant organ, and they each time determine its usability as a raw biomaterial in a wide range of thermal, physical, or chemical conversion processes. This study reviewed and analysed selected qualitative and quantitative features of forest dendromass, taking into account the genus and a plant organ/morphological part, followed by a group of trees (coniferous and deciduous) and without the latter differentiation. The study involved an analysis of data covering 15 selected qualitative-quantitative features of forest dendromass within three main and nine additional plant organs/morphological parts and 21 genera (5 coniferous and 16 deciduous) typical of the temperate climate.

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Owing to photosynthesis, on which all life on Earth is founded [1], five to eight times more energy has been accumulated in biomass than man consumes from all sources
An increase in the share of renewable energy sources (RES) in the energy acquisition structure helps to stem the growth of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere and to reduce the pollution caused by fossil fuel combustion [3]
The papers were analysed in terms of proximate analysis, thermophysical properties, and composition of different genera systematic dendromass and diverse plant organs/morphological parts

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On which all life on Earth is founded [1], five to eight times more energy has been accumulated in biomass than man consumes from all sources. An increase in the share of RES in the energy acquisition structure helps to stem the growth of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere and to reduce the pollution caused by fossil fuel combustion [3]. Biomass energy potential is renewed continuously by natural processes and/or by human activity. This makes biomass used increasingly often in various power technologies, which are in constant development [4,5,6,7]. Biofuels account for approximately 50% of the global primary energy supply [8], which is of particular importance to the European Union, which plans to achieve at least a 32% share of RES by 2030 [9]

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