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Application of Micro- or Small-Scale Biomass-Derived Fuel System for Power Generation

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Biomass being world’s largest renewable fuel source is now considered as the best alternate for fossil fuels owing to the CO2 saving nature as well as more economical as compared to fossil fuels. Although, some pretreatment process is required in order to utilize the raw biomass for power generation. There are various systems to generate power but combined heat and power (CHP) generation has proved to be the most beneficial method to generate electricity as well as heat by recovering the surplus heat to make an overall efficiency of up to 90 %. Various types of CHP systems have been discussed and compared for their working and efficiency along with their applications in different dwellings depending upon their power capacities. Moreover, biomass CHP systems have been thoroughly overviewed for their economic, energy, and environmental aspects.

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  1. Chemical Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia

    Sujan Chowdhury & Madiha Yasir

  2. Biomass Processing Laboratory, Center of Biofuel & Biochemical Research, MOR-Green Technology, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 31750, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia

    Yoshimitsu Uemura

  3. Fundamental and Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia

    Norani Muti Mohamed

  4. Graduate School of Environmental and life Science, Okayama University Japan, Okayama, Japan

    Azhar Uddin

  5. Department of Wood Properties, Forestry and Forest Products research Institute (FFPRI), 1-Matsunosato, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8687, Japan

    Takashi Yanagida

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Chowdhury, S., Yasir, M., Uemura, Y., Mohamed, N.M., Uddin, A., Yanagida, T. (2014). Application of Micro- or Small-Scale Biomass-Derived Fuel System for Power Generation. In: Hakeem, K., Jawaid, M., Rashid, U. (eds) Biomass and Bioenergy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07578-5_17

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