Naujų biokuro rūšių naudojimo energetikos ūkyje galimybės

Abstract

There are a wide variety of biomass energy resources, including tree and grass crops and forestry, agricultural, and urban wastes. It is the oldest source of renewable energy known to humans, used since our ancestors learned the secret of fire. From the time of Prometheus to the present, the most common way to capture the energy from biomass was to burn it, to make heat, steam, and electricity. But advances in recent years have shown that there are more efficient and cleaner ways to use biomass. It can be converted into liquid fuels, for example, or cooked in a process cal-led “gasification” to produce combustible gases. And certain crops such as switchgrass and willow trees are especially suited as “energy crops,” plants grown specifically for energy generation.