Argonne researches clean feedstock production
Researchers at the US’ Argonne National Laboratory are studying a systems approach to sustainable biomass feedstock production.
If implemented the approach could mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and the impact of biomass for biofuels production on food crops, help restore contaminated water resources and reduce the cost of transporting biomass.
In the study, agricultural, energy and environmental sectors are considered components of a single system and environmental liabilities such as marginal lands resources like brownfields or roadway buffer strips and used or degraded water resources are used as recoverable resources for biomass production.
In the study ‘Biofuels, Land, and Water: A Systems Approach to Sustainability’ researchers evaluated marginal land and degraded water resources to improve feedstock productivity while concurrently improving environmental restoration for the state of Nebraska.
They found that using both marginal land and degraded water resources could produce enough feedstocks to meet 22% of the state's energy requirements compared to the current 2%.
If implemented the approach could mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and the impact of biomass for biofuels production on food crops, help restore contaminated water resources and reduce the cost of transporting biomass.
In the study, agricultural, energy and environmental sectors are considered components of a single system and environmental liabilities such as marginal lands resources like brownfields or roadway buffer strips and used or degraded water resources are used as recoverable resources for biomass production.
In the study ‘Biofuels, Land, and Water: A Systems Approach to Sustainability’ researchers evaluated marginal land and degraded water resources to improve feedstock productivity while concurrently improving environmental restoration for the state of Nebraska.
They found that using both marginal land and degraded water resources could produce enough feedstocks to meet 22% of the state's energy requirements compared to the current 2%.
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