Industrial Uses of Biomass Energy The Example of Brazil

Name: Industrial Uses of Biomass Energy The Example of Brazil
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ISBN: 9780748408849

ISBN-10: 0748408843

ISBN-13: 9780748408849

Edition: 2000

Authors: Frank Rosillo-Calle, Sergio V. Bajay, Harry Rothman, Jose Goldemberg

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Industrial Uses of Biomass Energy demonstrates that energy-rich vegetation, biomass, is a key renewable energy resource for the future. Brazil, uniquely, has a recent history of large-scale biomass industrial uses that makes it a specially important test-bed both for the development of biomass technology and its utilisation, and for understanding how this is shaped by political and socio-economic forces. The book analyses the cause for this and the alternatives. It is argued that Brazil's experience with the development for industrial biomass use provides wider lessons and insights in the context of the international movement for sustainable economic development.This book is an…

Book details

List price: $245.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: CRC Press LLC
Publication date: 3/9/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.89" wide x 9.84" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English



List of figures


List of tables


List of contributors


Preface


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Introduction



Overview of biomass energy




Energy from biomass in Brazil




The potential contribution of technology assessment to bioenergy programmes




Assessment of externalities and sustainability issues




Sugar-cane culture and use of residues




Sugar-cane industrial processing in Brazil




Pulp and paper




Production and use of industrial charcoal




New technologies for modern biomass energy carriers




Concluding remarks and future directions



Index