Advanced Journal of Environmental Science and Technology ISSN: 2136-3468 Vol. 5(1)), pp. 114-137, January, 2018.  © Advanced Scholars Journals

Full length Research paper 

Application of bioenergy for energy or materials: future perspective through development of management

Abdeen Mustafa Omer

Energy Research Institute, Nottingham NG7 4EU, United Kingdom

Email: [email protected]

Accepted 18 June, 2015

Abstract 

The demand for energy continued to outstrip supply and necessitated the development of biomass option. Residues were the most popular forms of renewable energy and currently biofuel production became much promising. Agricultural wastes contained high moisture content and could be decomposed easily by microbes. Agricultural wastes were abundantly available globally and could be converted to energy and useful chemicals by a number of microorganisms. Compost or bio-fertiliser could be produced with the inoculation of appropriated thermophilic microbes which increased the decomposition rate, shortened the maturity period and improved the compost (or bio-fertiliser) quality. The objective of the present research was to promote the biomass technology and involved adaptive research, demonstration and dissemination of results. With a view to fulfill the objective, a massive field survey was conducted to assess the availability of raw materials as well as the present situation of biomass technologies. In the present article, an attempt had also been made to present an overview of present and future use of biomass as an industrial feedstock for production of fuels, chemicals and other materials. We may conclude from the review paper that biomass technology must be encouraged, promoted, invested, implemented, and demonstrated, not only in urban areas but also in remote rural areas.

Keywords: Biomass resources, agricultural wastes, energy, environment, sustainable development.