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Bioenergy in China: Trends, Challenges and Future Prospects

Salman Zafar — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:38:59 +0000

China has recently emerged as one of the economic powerhouses of the world. Not only does this status continue to redefine what was considered to represent a somewhat “backwards” society, but plenty of employment opportunities await. This has also given...

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How to Reduce the Establishment Costs of Miscanthus

John O’Loughlin — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:37:50 +0000

Miscanthus has been lauded as a dynamic high potential biomass energy crop for some time now due to its high yields, low input requirements and perennial nature. Miscanthus is commonly used as a biomass fuel to produce heat and electricity...

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Renewable Energy in Refugee Camps

Salman Zafar — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 14:11:41 +0000

Access to clean, affordable and renewable energy is a prerequisite for sustainable development of mankind, and refugees are no exception. Refugee camps across the world house more than 65 million people, and almost all refugee camps are plagued by fuel...

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Your Choices for Alternative Energy

Salman Zafar — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:51:36 +0000

While using alternative sources of energy is a right way for you to save money on your heating and cooling bills, it also allows you to contribute in vital ways to both the environment and the economy. Renewable energy sources...

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Biomass Energy in Vietnam

Salman Zafar — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:19:06 +0000

Vietnam is one of the few countries having a low level of energy consumption in the developing world with an estimated amount of 210 kg of oil equivalent per capita/year. A significant portion of the Vietnamese population does not have...

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Everything You Need to Know About Biomass Energy Systems

Salman Zafar — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 14:07:45 +0000

Biomass is a versatile energy source that can be used for production of heat, power, transport fuels and biomaterials, apart from making a significant contribution to climate change mitigation. Currently, biomass-driven combined heat and power, co-firing, and combustion plants provide...

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Things You Should Know About Biofuels

Salman Zafar — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:37:17 +0000

Biofuels refers to liquid or gaseous fuels for the transport sector that are predominantly produced from biomass. A variety of fuels can be produced from biomass resources including liquid fuels, such as ethanol, methanol, biodiesel, Fischer-Tropsch diesel, and gaseous fuels,...

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Cofiring of Biomass

Salman Zafar — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:42:09 +0000

Cofiring of biomass involves utilizing existing power generating plants that are fired with fossil fuel (generally coal), and displacing a small proportion of the fossil fuel with renewable biomass fuels. Cofiring of biomass with coal and other fossil fuels can...

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Utilization of Date Palm Biomass

Salman Zafar — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:25:56 +0000

Date palm trees produce huge amount of agricultural wastes in the form of dry leaves, stems, pits, seeds etc. A typical date tree can generate as much as 20 kilograms of dry leaves per annum while date pits account for...

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Role of Biogas in Rural Development

Ritika Tewari — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:40:25 +0000

Anaerobic digestion has proven to be a beneficial technology in various spheres for rural development. Biogas produced is a green replacement of unprocessed fuels (like fuel wood, dung cakes, crop residues). It is a cost effective replacement for dung cakes...

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Could Biomass Be The Answer To South Africa’s Energy Problem

Salman Zafar — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:21:03 +0000

South Africa is experiencing a mammoth energy crisis with its debt-laden national power utility, Eskom, being unable to meet the electricity needs of the nation. After extensive periods of load shedding in 2018 and again earlier this year, it is becoming increasingly...

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Bioenergy in Southeast Asia: Perspectives

Salman Zafar — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:59:29 +0000

Southeast Asia, with its abundant bioenergy resources, holds a strategic position in the global biomass energy atlas. There is immense biomass energy potential in Southeast Asian countries due to plentiful supply of diverse forms of biomass wastes, such as agricultural...

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Why Biofuels Should Be a Key Part in America’s Future

Salman Zafar — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:51:10 +0000

Biofuels are one of the hottest environmental topics, but they aren’t anything new. When discussing these fuels, experts frequently refer to first, second-and third-generation biofuels to differentiate between more efficient and advanced ones currently in development and more traditional biofuels...

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Clean Cookstoves: An Urgent Necessity

Claire Cosgrove — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 03:22:18 +0000

Globally, three billion people in the developing nations are solely dependent on burning firewood, crop residues, animal manure etc for preparing their daily meals on open fires, mud or clay stoves or simply on three rocks strategically placed to balance...

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Biomass Energy Potential in Philippines

Salman Zafar — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 02:32:04 +0000

The Philippines has abundant supplies of biomass energy resources in the form of agricultural crop residues, forest residues, animal wastes, agro-industrial wastes, municipal solid wastes and aquatic biomass. The most common agricultural wastes are rice hull, bagasse, cane trash, coconut shell/husk and...

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Biorefinery Prospects in India

Setu Goyal — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 01:39:57 +0000

India has a tremendous biomass potential which could easily be relied upon to fulfil most of our energy needs. An estimated 50 MMT (million metric tonnes) of liquid fuels are consumed annually in India, but with the actual biomass potential...

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