Glossary
- Biofuel:
-
Fuel derived from organic matter (obtained directly from plants, or indirectly from agricultural, commercial, domestic, and/or industrial wastes) instead of from fossil products.
- Biogas:
-
A mixture of mainly methane and carbon dioxide produced by bacterial degradation of organic matter to be used as a fuel.
- Biomass:
-
Includes all kinds of material that were directly or indirectly derived in recent times from contemporary photosynthesis reactions, such as vegetal matter and its derivatives.
- Combined heat and power (CHP):
-
The use of a heat engine or a power station to simultaneously generate both electricity and useful heat.
- Combustion:
-
A chemical reaction that occurs between a fuel and an oxidizing agent that produces energy, usually in the form of heat and light.
- Electricity generation:
-
The process of creating electricity from other forms of energy.
- Environment:
-
Most commonly used describing “natural” environment and means the sum of all living and nonliving things that...
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsBibliography
Canadian Centre for Energy Information (2010) Biomass timeline. Calgary Website access 2010
Griffiths DJ (1998) Introduction to electrodynamics. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs
Heathcote M (1998) J&P transformer handbook. Elsevier, Oxford
Kaltschmitt M, Bridgwater AV (eds) (1997) Biomass gasification and pyrolysis – state of the art and future prospects. CPL Scientific, Newbury
Kaltschmitt M, Hartmann H, Hofbauer H (2016) Energie aus Biomasse: Grundlagen, Techniken und Verfahren, 3rd edn. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York
Kaltschmitt M, Rösch C, Dinkelbach L (eds) (1998) Biomass gasification in Europe. European Commission DG XII, Brussels
Kaltschmitt M, Streicher W, Wiese A (2012) Erneuerbare Energien – Systemtechnik, Wirtschaftlichkeit, Umweltaspekte, 5th edn. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York
Lackner M, Winter F, Avinash K (2010) Handbook of combustion. Wiley, Chichester
Kaltschmitt M, Janczik S (2015) REMIPEG Report part 2: biomass to power is on the rise globally. Renew Energy Focus 16:164–167
Langeheinecke PJ, Sapper E (2004) Thermodynamik für Ingenieure. Vieweg Verlag, Wiesbaden
von Loo S, Koppejan J (2008) The handbook of biomass combustion and cofiring. Earthscan, London
Nertinger S (2009) Methoden des Carbon Footprinting zur Beurteilung der Nachhaltigkeit – an den Fallstudien Betapharm und Prolignis. Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität Augsburg, Augsburg
Obernberger I (1997) Nutzung fester Biomasse in Verbrennungsanlagen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Verhaltens aschebildender Elemente, Thermal Biomass Utilization Series, vol I. dbv-Verlag, Graz
Obernberger I (1998) Decentralised biomass combustion – state-of-the-art and future development, keynote lecture at the 9th European biomass conference in Copenhagen. Biomass Bioenergy 14(1):33–56
Wagner B (2010) Methoden des Carbon Footprinting zur Beurteilung der Nachhaltigkeit – Fallstudie Prolignis. Presentation for the Prolignis Steering Committee Prolignis, Ingolstadt
Wiedmann T, Minx J (2008) The definition of carbon footprint. In: Perstova CC (ed) Ecological economics research trends, chapter 1. Nova Science, New York, pp 1–11
Kleineidam P, Dörr J (2015) Renewable power generation 2015 – the latest update. In: Renew energy focus, vol 16. Elsevier, Oxford, pp 160–163
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
About this entry
Cite this entry
Wiese, A. (2019). Biomass Combustion for Electricity Generation. In: Kaltschmitt, M. (eds) Energy from Organic Materials (Biomass). Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7813-7_254
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7813-7_254
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-1-4939-7812-0
Online ISBN: 978-1-4939-7813-7
eBook Packages: EnergyReference Module Computer Science and Engineering