The economic, environmental and strategic value of biomass
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In this article, the authors make a contribution to the evaluation of biomass power plants based on dedicated energy crops and evaluate the strategic, environmental and economic interest of the project under the present RES support schemes.About:
This article is published in Renewable Energy.The article was published on 2012-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 105 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Feed-in tariff & Base load power plant.read more
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Table 1 Feed-in tariffs for biomass power technologies in Portugal, 2011 (source: DGGE website. Data drawn in July 2011). 
Table 3 Results of the economic evaluation of the biomass power project. 
Fig. 2. Sensitivity analysis of the project results (IRR) to different FIT. 
Fig. 1. SWOT analysis of the biomass power sector in Portugal. 
Table 2 Data used for the economic evaluation of the biomass power project.
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Activity of solid acid catalysts for biodiesel production: A critical review
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A review on electricity generation based on biomass residue in Malaysia
TL;DR: In this article, the potential of recovering energy from major source of biomass residue in Malaysia is analyzed, where the agricultural crop residues and industrial crop waste are investigated, which will contribute substantially to harness a sustainable resource management system in Malaysia to reduce the major disposal problem of biomass residues.
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Quantifying environmental performance of biomass energy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the environmental aspects of biomass energy and focus on the environmental performance of the bio-energy for the future development of the country, and also deal with the environment monitoring and control, pricing, standard and regulations.
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Public opinion on renewable energy technologies in Portugal
TL;DR: In this article, public opinion on renewable energy technologies was analyzed by means of a survey implemented in Portugal, and the results showed that biomass is the least known technology, while hydro power is the most known.
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The electric energy potential of landfill biogas in Brazil
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the potential population size contributing to the landfill, which could result in the installation of a financially viable enterprise to generate electricity in Brazil, and an estimate of the costs associated with the generation and collection of solid waste in Brazil was predicted by GDP prognoses, the latter being in accordance with the National Energy Balance (Balanco Energetico Nacional) plan created by the Mines and Energy Ministry of Brazil (Ministerio de Minas e Energia do Brasil -MME).
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Energy production from biomass (Part 1): Overview of biomass.
TL;DR: The potential of a restored landfill site to act as a biomass source, providing fuel to supplement landfill gas-fuelled power stations, is examined, together with a comparison of the economics of power production from purpose-grown biomass versus waste-biomass.
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The contribution of biomass in the future global energy supply: a review of 17 studies
TL;DR: The contribution of biomass in the future global energy supply is discussed in this paper, based on a review of 17 earlier studies on the subject, and a refined modeling of interactions between different uses and bioenergy, food and materials production would facilitate an improved understanding of the prospects for large-scale bioenergy and of future land-use and biomass management.
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Assessment of the potential biomass supply in Europe using a resource-focused approach
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TL;DR: In this article, the potential biomass supply in the 15 EU countries (EU15), 8 new member states and 2 candidate countries (ACC10), plus Belarus and the Ukraine, was analyzed.
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Socio-economic drivers in implementing bioenergy projects
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of literature on employment and other socioeconomic aspects of bioenergy systems as drivers for implementing bioenergy projects is presented, and the authors aim to trigger a more in-depth discussion of data gaps, potentials, opportunities and challenges.
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Sustainability considerations for electricity generation from biomass
TL;DR: In this article, the sustainability of electricity generation from biomass has been assessed in this work according to the key indicators of price, efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions, availability, limitations, land use, water use and social impacts.