The Use of Waste Biomass from the Wood Industry and Municipal Sources for Energy Production

Andrzej Greinert, Maria Mrówczyńska and Wojciech Szefner
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Andrzej Greinert: Institute of Environmental Engineering, University of Zielona Góra, 65-516 Zielona Góra, Poland
Maria Mrówczyńska: Institute of Civil Engineering, University of Zielona Góra, 65-516 Zielona Góra, Poland
Wojciech Szefner: Lubuski Centre for Innovation and Agricultural Implementation Ltd., University of Zielona Gora, Co., Kalsk 122, 66-100 Sulechów, Poland

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 11, 1-19

Abstract: Biomass can be used for the production of energy from renewable sources. Because of social resistance to burning crop plants, mixtures and pellets made from or including waste materials are a good alternative. The mixtures analyzed, prepared from wood and municipal waste, were characterized for their calorific values, 7.4–18.2 MJ·kg −1 . A result, over 15 MJ·kg −1 was obtained for 47% of the quantities of mixtures being composed. It has been demonstrated that wood shavings and sewage sludge have a stabilizing effect on the durability of pellets. The emissions of acidic anhydrides into the atmosphere from the combustion of pellets from waste biomass were lower for NO, NO 2 , NOx and H 2 S than emissions from the combustion of willow pellets. Obtained emission results suggest the need to further optimize the combustion process parameters.

Keywords: energy from biomass; pellets; wood waste; municipal waste (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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