Environmental costs and benefits of growing Miscanthus for bioenergy in the UK

JP McCalmont, A Hastings, NP McNamara… - Gcb …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Planting the perennial biomass crop Miscanthus in the UK could offset 2–13 Mt oil eq. yr− 1,
contributing up to 10% of current energy use. Policymakers need assurance that upscaling …

Progress in upscaling Miscanthus biomass production for the European bio‐economy with seed‐based hybrids

J Clifton‐Brown, A Hastings, M Mos… - Gcb …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Field trials in Europe with Miscanthus over the past 25 years have demonstrated that
interspecies hybrids such as M.× giganteus (M× g) combine both high yield potentials and …

Can BECCS deliver sustainable and resource efficient negative emissions?

M Fajardy, N Mac Dowell - Energy & Environmental Science, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Negative emissions technologies (NETs) in general and bioenergy with CO2 capture and
storage (BECCS) in particular are commonly regarded as vital yet controversial to meeting …

Value addition through biohydrogen production and integrated processes from hydrothermal pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass

G Mohanakrishna, JA Modestra - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Bioenergy production is the most sought-after topics at the crunch of energy demand,
climate change and waste generation. In view of this, lignocellulosic biomass (LCB) rich in …

Investigating the BECCS resource nexus: delivering sustainable negative emissions

M Fajardy, S Chiquier, N Mac Dowell - Energy & Environmental …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), and other negative emissions
technologies (NETs), are integral to all scenarios consistent with meeting global climate …

Perennial biomass cropping and use: Shaping the policy ecosystem in European countries

J Clifton‐Brown, A Hastings, M von Cossel… - GCB …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Demand for sustainably produced biomass is expected to increase with the need to provide
renewable commodities, improve resource security and reduce greenhouse gas emissions …

The EV-olution of the power system: A spatio-temporal optimisation model to investigate the impact of electric vehicle deployment

CF Heuberger, PK Bains, N Mac Dowell - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Power system models have become an essential part of strategic planning and decision-
making in the energy transition. While techniques are becoming increasingly sophisticated …

Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS): Finding the win–wins for energy, negative emissions and ecosystem services—size matters

C Donnison, RA Holland, A Hastings… - GCB …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) features heavily in the
energy scenarios designed to meet the Paris Agreement targets, but the models used to …

The role and value of negative emissions technologies in decarbonising the UK energy system

HA Daggash, CF Heuberger, N Mac Dowell - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The UK is committed to the Paris Agreement and has a legally-binding target to reduce
economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 80% relative to 1990 levels by 2050. Meeting …

Bamboo: A new source of carbohydrate for biorefinery

M He, J Wang, H Qin, Z Shui, Q Zhu, B Wu, F Tan… - Carbohydrate …, 2014 - Elsevier
Bamboo is perennial woody grass, which distributed widely in the world and belonged to the
Gramineae family and Bambuseae subfamily. It may be consider as a candidate …