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Date Palm Waste and Attempts to Use it as an Energy Source: State-of-the-Art

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Phoenix dactylifera, which is perhaps the world’s earliest known cultivated tree, is also one of the most cultivated at present. An estimated 105 million individuals of this species are currently standing in the world, covering about 3% of the world’s cultivated area and generating about 12 million metric tonnes of waste biomass per year. The latter represents one of the biggest streams of lignocellulosic waste which is remaining largely unutilized at present for want of economically viable utilization options. This paper assesses the potential of date palm waste and reviews the attempts made so far to extract energy from it in the form of solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels. The paper underscores the need for making greater efforts towards finding gainful solutions of the date palm waste problem.

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SAA thanks Indian National Science Academy [INSA], New Delhi, and PP thanks Council for Scientific and Industrial Research [CSIR], New Delhi, for support.

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  2. Centre for Pollution Control & Environmental Engineering, Pondicherry University, Chinakalapet, Puducherry, 605014, India

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Tabassum-Abbasi, Nayeem-Shah, M., Abbasi, S.A., Abbasi, T. (2022). Date Palm Waste and Attempts to Use it as an Energy Source: State-of-the-Art. In: Siddiqui, N.A., Khan, F., Tauseef, S.M., Ghanem, W.S., Garaniya, V. (eds) Advances in Behavioral Based Safety. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8270-4_3

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