Climate impact and energy efficiency from electricity generation through anaerobic digestion or direct combustion of short rotation coppice willow

Niclas Ericsson, Åke Nordberg, Cecilia Sundberg, Serina Ahlgren and Per-Anders Hansson

Applied Energy, 2014, vol. 132, issue C, 86-98

Abstract: Short rotation coppice willow is an energy crop used in Sweden to produce electricity and heat in combined heat and power plants. Recent laboratory-scale experiments have shown that SRC willow can also be used for biogas production in anaerobic digestion processes.

Keywords: Land use change; Soil carbon; Life cycle assessment; Time-dependent climate impact; Biogas; Combined heat and power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.06.049

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