Greenhouse-gas emissions from energy use in the water sector

SGSA Rothausen, D Conway - Nature climate change, 2011 - nature.com
Water management faces great challenges over the coming decades. Pressures include
stricter water-quality standards, increasing demand for water and the need to adapt to …

Miscanthus: a promising biomass crop

EA Heaton, FG Dohleman, AF Miguez, JA Juvik… - Advances in botanical …, 2010 - Elsevier
Abstract The C 4 grass Miscanthus× giganteus is of increasing interest as a biomass
feedstock for renewable fuel production. This review describes what is known to date on M.× …

Application of an artificial neural network to optimise energy inputs: An energy-and cost-saving strategy for commercial poultry farms

E Elahi, Z Zhang, Z Khalid, H Xu - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The current study estimates target values of energy inputs along with an assessment of
energy-and cost-saving strategies for poultry farms. In 2019, cross-sectional data were …

Energy use and economical analysis of potato production in Iran a case study: Ardabil province

A Mohammadi, A Tabatabaeefar, S Shahin… - Energy conversion and …, 2008 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to determine energy consumption of input and output used in
potato production, and making an economical analysis in Ardabil, Iran. For this purpose, the …

Energy consumption and CO2 emissions analysis of potato production based on different farm size levels in Iran

SH Pishgar-Komleh, M Ghahderijani… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2012 - Elsevier
The aim of this research was to examine the energy consumption and CO2 emission of
potato production in three different farm size sin Esfahan province of Iran. For this purpose …

Comparison of Arundo donax L. and Miscanthus x giganteus in a long-term field experiment in Central Italy: Analysis of productive characteristics and energy balance

LG Angelini, L Ceccarini, NN o Di Nasso… - Biomass and bioenergy, 2009 - Elsevier
Miscanthus x giganteus (miscanthus) and Arundo donax L.(giant reed) are two perennial
crops which have been received particular attention during the last decade as bioenergy …

Energy and economic analysis of greenhouse strawberry production in Tehran province of Iran

N Banaeian, M Omid, H Ahmadi - Energy Conversion and management, 2011 - Elsevier
The aims of this study were to determine energy use pattern, to investigate the energy use
efficiency, and to make an economical analysis in greenhouse strawberry production in Iran …

A case study of energy use and economical analysis of irrigated and dryland wheat production systems

R Ghorbani, F Mondani, S Amirmoradi, H Feizi… - Applied Energy, 2011 - Elsevier
Current conventional agricultural systems using intensive energy has to be re-vitalized by
new integrated approaches relying on renewable energy resources, which can allow …

Energy auditing and optimization approach for improving energy efficiency of rice cultivation in south-western Punjab, India

P Singh, G Singh, GPS Sodhi - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is an important energy intensive cereal crop in India. In the present
study, energy input and output were audited to optimize energy use in rice cultivation using …

Nutrient requirements of Miscanthus x giganteus: conclusions from a review of published studies

S Cadoux, AB Riche, NE Yates, JM Machet - Biomass and Bioenergy, 2012 - Elsevier
Miscanthus x giganteus is a perennial biomass crop particularly suited to substituting fossil
fuel resources in bioenergy production, in order to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) …