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Leonel J. R. Nunes
The use of biomass as a renewable energy source is currently a reality, mainly due to the role it can play in replacing fossil energy sources. Within this possibility, coal substitution in the production of electric energy presents itself as a strong alt...
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Wang Tian, Huayong Zhang, Lei Zhao, Yuanwu Xiong, Hai Huang
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The stability of phytoplankton biomass is important in maintaining the health of an aquatic ecosystem. In this study, the main environmental factors and phytoplankton biomass were investigated monthly from May 2011 to April 2013 in a eutrophic lake. The ...
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Wang Tian, Huayong Zhang, Lei Zhao, Yuanwu Xiong and Hai Huang
The stability of phytoplankton biomass is important in maintaining the health of an aquatic ecosystem. In this study, the main environmental factors and phytoplankton biomass were investigated monthly from May 2011 to April 2013 in a eutrophic lake. The ...
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P. Soares,M. Tomé
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One of several procedures for estimating carbon stocks in forests is the estimation of tree or stand biomass based on forest inventory data. The two approaches normally used to convert field measurements of trees to stand biomass values are allometric bi...
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Qi Zhang, Lihua Xu, Maozhen Zhang, Zhi Wang, Zhangfeng Gu, Yaqi Wu, Yijun Shi and Zhangwei Lu
The accurate quantification of biomass helps to understand forest productivity and carbon cycling dynamics. Research on uncertainty during pretreatment is still lacking despite it being one of the major sources of uncertainty and an essential step in bio...
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Bahia Karkach, Mohammed Tahiri, Achraf Haibi, Mohsine Bouya and Fatima Kifani-Sahban
The fast depletion of fossil fuels and growing concerns about environmental sustainability have increased interest in using biomass as a renewable energy source. Fast pyrolysis, a thermochemical conversion process, has emerged as a promising technique fo...
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Juan Félix González, Andrés Álvarez Murillo, Diego Díaz García and Sergio Nogales-Delgado
A thorough study about the optimization of a real biomass stove through the use of different fuels was carried out to determine the quality of exhaust gases.
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Borja Velázquez Martí, Juan Gaibor-Chávez, John Eloy Franco Rodríguez and Isabel López Cortés
This work was aimed at the characterization of residual generated biomass from pruned tree species present in the Andean areas of Ecuador as a source of energy, both in plantations and in urban areas, as a response to the change in the energy matrix prop...
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Tiago Florindo, Ana I. Ferraz, Ana C. Rodrigues and Leonel J. R. Nunes
Waste management is a current and transversal problem in all production areas, including agriculture. Within this economic activity, wine production generates a large amount of waste, namely, that resulting from the winemaking activity itself, such as po...
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Rosalba Argumedo-Delira, Mario J. Gómez-Martínez and Ramiro Uribe-Kaffure
The present study evaluated the removal efficiency of two dyes, Congo red (CR) and malachite green (MG), using either fresh or dry fungal biomass of two species of Trichoderma (T. virens and T. viride) and activated carbon. After 24 h, the CR removal eff...
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Xuan Zhao, Jianjun Liu, Hongke Hao and Yanzheng Yang
Investigating the spatial distribution of urban forest biomass and its potential influencing factors would provide useful insights for configuring urban greenspace. Although China is experiencing an unprecedented scale of urbanization, the spatial patter...
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Leonel J. R. Nunes, Jorge M. C. Ribeiro, Letícia C. R. Sá, Liliana M. E. F. Loureiro, Radu Godina and João C. O. Matias
Currently, the search for alternative sources of energy is not only due to the scarcity of non-renewable sources, since these still have an availability capable of meeting actual consumption needs, but also due to the negative environmental impacts that ...
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Laura Eaton Carleton and Dennis Becker
Forest biomass used for heating, electricity, and biofuel production is a source of energy that could reduce the dependence on energy imports while reinvesting domestically. Using the appropriate scale and technology, the US state of Minnesota is poised ...
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Hongjian Lin, Sarah (Xiao) Wu and Jun Zhu
The model proposed in this study was based on the assumption that the biomass attached to the anode served as biocatalysts for microbial fuel cell (MFC) exoelectrogenesis, and this catalytic effect was quantified by the exchange current density of anode....
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Ji-Yeon Kim and Hyun-Woo Kim
Photoautotrophic microalgae offer high promise for a tertiary treatment of livestock wastewater owing to their rapid growth and nutrient uptake. To screen better microalga for the tertiary treatment, batch photobioreactor tests were conducted using Chlor...
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Ji-Yeon Kim, Hyun-Woo Kim
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Photoautotrophic microalgae offer high promise for a tertiary treatment of livestock wastewater owing to their rapid growth and nutrient uptake. To screen better microalga for the tertiary treatment, batch photobioreactor tests were conducted using Chlor...
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Rafael Serrada,Valentín Gómez-Sanz,María J. Aroca,Javier Otero,J. Alfredo Bravo-Fernández,Sonia Roig
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Aim of the study: To analyse the decline in aged holm oak coppice forests as regards above-ground and below-ground fractions and physiological features.Area of study: Centre of the Iberian Peninsula (Guadalajara province).Material and methods: 26 pairs o...
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Severino Romano, Mario Cozzi, Francesco Di Napoli and Mauro Viccaro
In this study, we present a model for the implementation of agro-energy chains based on the actual availability of forest biomass and the real demand for energy (heat) in the area of the Basilicata region, Italy. The demand for energy has been estimated ...
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Jing Li, Ronghua Ma, Kun Xue, Yuchao Zhang and Steven Loiselle
Column integrated algal biomass provides a robust indicator for eutrophication evaluation because it considers the vertical variability of phytoplankton. However, most remote sensing-based inversion algorithms of column algal biomass assume a homogenous ...
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S.M.C.U.P. Subasinghe,G.B. Munasinghe
Forests in Sri Lanka contribute to the mitigation of global climate change through sequestrating a net amount of carbon dioxide and also maintaining carbon stocks as forest biomass. This study was conducted using an empirical method to understand the bio...
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