Perennial Grasses for Bioenergy and Bioproducts: Production, Uses, Sustainability and Markets for Giant Reed, Miscanthus, Switchgrass, Reed Canary Gra

ISBN-13: 9780128129005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 306 str.

Efthymia Alexopoulou

Recenzje

"Although the book has some drawbacks like unnecessarily providing comprehensive tables of conferences, data to local climatic conditions, repetition of figures and graphs, overall it is an original publication. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first book on perennial grasses other than two books (Miscanthus: For Energy and Fibre, 2000 and Miscanthus for Bioenergy Production, 2019) on Miscanthus by Michael B. Jones (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland). This book has been published when perennial grasses are at early stages of development as dedicated crops for bio-mass production, and little information is available on hundreds of undomesticated and underutilized perennial grasses. In conclusion, this book will be of interest to scientists, students and other stakeholders, and provide comprehensive information on important European and American perennial grasses in a single forum." --Current Science

Spis treści

1. The Importance of Perennial Grasses as a Feedstock for Bioenergy and Bioproducts
2. Miscanthus
3. Switchgrass: From Production to End Use
4. Giant Reed: From Production to End Use
5. Reed Canary Grass: From Production to End Use
6. Bamboo Production for Industrial Utilization
7. Suitability of Perennial Grasses for Energy and Nonenergy Products
8. Sustainability of Perennial Crops Production for Bioenergy and Bioproducts

O autorze

Efthymia Alexopoulou is an agriculture engineer with a PhD on adaptability and biomass productivity of the non-food crop Kenaf in Greece. She is responsible for the Energy Crops Unit of the Biomass Department at the Center for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving. She has several years of RTD experience on energy crops such as kenaf, switchgrass, giant reed, miscanthus, sweet sorghum, cardoon, rapeseed, castor etc. She was also the coordinator of three EU research projects: BIOKENAF ("Biomass production chains and growth simulation model for kenaf”, 4FCROPS ("Future Crops for Food, Feed, Fiber and Fuel”) and FIBRA ("Fibre Crops as a sustainable source of biobased material for industrial products in Europe and China”). Dr. Alexopoulou has been Involved in several R&D projects for CRES, the most recent being the OPTIMA project, an EU research project dedicated to perennial grasses research, a sister project with two other EU projects working on the same subject (OPTIMISC and GRASS MARGINS). She was co-editor of a book on Kenaf, has presented in several international conferences and published many papers on international journals. She was guest editor in two special issues of Industrial Crops and Products (Volume 68 and Volume 75), in which presented part of the findings of FIBRA project.