Aiming to investigate the suitability of perennial crops for heat and power applications, three
energy crops produced under the Greek climatic conditions were pyrolyzed by non …

Substantial areas of agricultural land in south European countries are becoming
increasingly marginal and being abandoned due to arid climate with prolonged summers …

Solid biofuels from energy crops are widely considered as an attractive alternative for power
production in dedicated combustion or cofiring applications. The aim of this work is to …

Switchgrass, a warm-season perennial grass, could play an important role for Europe in
supplying sustainably produced lignocellulosic biomass, as its establishment cost is low and …

Few tests have been carried out in order to evaluate the use of cardoon in gasification and
combustion applications most of the researchers dealt with agglomeration problems. The …

This work evaluated fly ash quality from combustion of high thermal shares of biomass fuels.
Woody biomass was (co) combusted in an industrial scale pulverized fuel power plant, and …

Aiming to investigate the possibility of exploitation of perennial crops for energetic uses, five
sustainable energy plants, previously devolatilized, were gasified by carbon dioxide up to …

Cynara cardunculus, commonly known as cardoon is a potential energy crop native to the
Mediterranean region with high production yields reported. The aim of this work is to present …

We re-analyzed 34 experiments (112 sets of biomass and leaf area index, LAI, curves)
following a common protocol for seven energy crop species (sunflower, kenaf, cynara …

Περίληψη Οι σύγχρονες ανάγκες της κοινωνίας για παραγωγή ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας, καθώς
και υγρών καυσίμων εξαρτώνται ως επί τω πλείστον από τα ορυκτά καύσιμα. Αυτή η εξάρτηση …