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2022
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Improving combustion quality of Miscanthus by adding biomass from perennial flower-rich wild plant species
Improving combustion quality of Miscanthus by adding biomass from perennial flower-rich wild plant species
Miscanthus (ANDERSSON) is considered a promising perennial industrial crop for providing biomass in a growing bioeconomy. One approach to increasing the biodiversity-enhancing ecosystem services of Miscanthus is the co-cultivation of flower-rich native wild plant species (WPS), for example, the pere...
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Personal Name(s): | Von Cossel, M. (Corresponding author) |
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Lebendig, F. / Müller, M. / Hieber, C. / Iqbal, Y. / Cohnen, Jens / Jablonowski, N. D. | |
Contributing Institute: |
Pflanzenwissenschaften; IBG-2 |
Published in: | Renewable & sustainable energy reviews, 168 (2022) S. 112814 - |
Imprint: |
Amsterdam [u.a.]
Elsevier Science
2022
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DOI: |
10.1016/j.rser.2022.112814 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Biological and environmental resources for sustainable use |
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Published on 2022-08-27. Available in OpenAccess from 2024-08-27. |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
Please use the identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/32635 in citations.
Miscanthus (ANDERSSON) is considered a promising perennial industrial crop for providing biomass in a growing bioeconomy. One approach to increasing the biodiversity-enhancing ecosystem services of Miscanthus is the co-cultivation of flower-rich native wild plant species (WPS), for example, the perennial WPS common tansy (Tanacetum vulgare L.) and mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris L.), as well as the biennial WPS wild teasel (Dipsacus fullonum L.) and yellow melilot (Melilotus officinalis L.). This study tested whether these selected WPS would be as suitable for combustion as Miscanthus, in this case the sterile hybrid Miscanthus x giganteus Greef et Deuter, allowing for a mixing of the biomasses. By doing so, no additional value chain (e.g. biogas production) would be necessary to economically exploit the diversification of the agricultural system for bioenergy production. Feedstock samples of Miscanthus and the four above-mentioned WPS from a field trial in southwest Germany were used to investigate the combustion characteristics as well as the higher heating value (HHV). It was found that all WPS exhibited better combustion properties than Miscanthus with respect to ash melting behavior at similar HHVs of 16.3–17.5 MJ kg−1. From an admixture of >30% WPS to the Miscanthus biomass, a significant increase in the ash melting temperature by 20% from 1000 to 1200 °C was shown. Thus, the mixture of WPS and Miscanthus could potentially improve the combustion quality, leading to reduced costs in the incineration plant operation process. However, the reduced costs of incineration should be greater than the loss in productivity due to the lower biomass yields from the WPS. This is highly dependent on the particular site conditions and the establishment success of the WPS and needs to be investigated in long-term studies. |