ABSTRACT
Electricity can be produced from solid or wet biomass, through several conversion routes, using chemical, thermal or biological processes.Biomass resources used for this purpose can come from forestry, agriculture, industry or waste sectors as summarized below:
• forest residues (wood blocks, wood chips); • short rotation forestry (e.g. willow, poplar and eucalyptus); • herbaceous ligno-cellulosic crops (e.g. miscanthus);
• agricultural by-products and residues (e.g. straw, animal manure, etc.); • industrial residues (for instance, from the food and the paper industries); • wood wastes (wood processing waste, construction residues); • organic fraction of municipal solid waste and refuse sewage sludge.
