Perennial Energy Crops: Growth and Management
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Energy balance and cost-benefit analysis of biogas production from perennial energy crops pretreated by wet oxidation.
Perennial crops need far less energy to plant, require less fertilizer and pesticides, and show a lower negative environmental impact compared with annual crops like for example corn. This makes the cultivation of perennial crops as energy crops more sustainable than the use of annual crops. The conversion into biogas in anaerobic digestion plants shows however much lower specific methane yield...
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