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Furfural production from empty fruit bunch - A biorefinery approach

Edgard Gnansounou, Jegannathan Kenthorai Raman

Biofuels production from agriculture residues is gaining much attention in Brazil due to agriculture residue availability, environmental benign properties of the fuel and, the capacity to improve rural development. However, for consideration of rational us ...

Elsevier2015

Modeling Soil–Plant Dynamics: Assessing Simulation Accuracy by Comparison with Spatially Distributed Crop Yield Measurements

Sara Bonetti

Coupling hydrological models with plant physiology is crucial to capture the feedback mechanisms occurring within the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum. However, the ability of such models to describe the spatial variability of plant responses to different e ...

2015

Allometric equations for non-destructive biomass estimation of early stage sugarcane plants – Case study in Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil

Hadrien Baecher

Brazil recently became the 5th world power, and with a tremendous growing of its population and the resulting needs, this country is facing challenges in providing energy to every sector of its socio-economical activity. The actual global warming concern a ...

2013

Technology’s Role in Proving Indirect Ecosystem Services and Monitoring their use, the example of a wireless network of meteorlogical stations and agroforestry trees in a West African Parkland

Jean-Claude Bolay, Marc Parlange, Alexandre Repetti, Natalie Claire Ceperley, Theophile Mande

The Gourmantche people of South Eastern Burkina recognize Sclerocarya birrea as a locally important agroforestry tree because of its cultural, agricultural, and nutritional value. Although it is understood to provide hydrologic benefits to surrounding crop ...

2012

Bioethanol production from oil palm empty fruit bunches

Simone Chiesa

Face to the increasing demand for energy, the declining availability of fossil fuels and the periodical tensions in the geopolitical context of oil-producing countries have raised serious concerns in the governments worldwide as well as in the public opini ...

EPFL2012

Heat, Electricity, or Transportation? The Optimal Use of Residual and Waste Biomass in Europe from an Environmental Perspective

Christian Ludwig, Bernhard Steubing

The optimal use of forest energy wood, industrial wood residues, waste wood, agricultural residues, animal manure, biowaste, and sewage sludge in 2010 and 2030 was assessed for Europe. An energy system model was developed comprising 13 principal fossil tec ...

2012

Restoration of Threatened Arable Weed Communities in Abandoned Mountainous Crop Fields

Charlotte Vandenberghe, François Gillet

Arable fields maintaining species-rich weed communities have almost disappeared from European mountain areas due to their abandonment or replacement by extensive grazing systems during the last decades. The restoration of arable weed communities have becom ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Refining sweet sorghum to ethanol and sugar: economic trade-offs in the context of North China

Edgard Gnansounou, Arnaud Dauriat

Reducing the use of non-renewable fossil energy reserves together with improving the environment are two important reasons that drive interest in the use of bioethanol as an automotive fuel. Conversion of sugar and starch to ethanol has been proven at an i ...

2005

Modelling pesticides residues

Raphael Charles

This work is a contribution to the development of a specific method to assess the presence of residues in agricultural commodities. The following objectives are formulated: to identify and describe main processes in environment — plant exchanges, to build ...

EPFL2004

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