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Biofuels

The following is a list of publications relating to Biofuels. They are available to download in PDF format at www.dti.gov.uk/publications.

Document Title

URN

Working Paper 1 - Economic Analysis of Biomass Energy07/950

Arbre Supply Chain Monitoring - Machinery Systems Monitoring

00/1665

Arbre Monitoring - The Fuel Supply Chain

05/1077

Arbre Monitoring - Ecology of Short Rotation Coppice. Four year study involving wildlife monitoring of commercial SRC plantations planted on arable land and arable control plots

04/961

An Evaluation of Herbicides for Post-Emergence Use in Short Rotation Coppice 

00/1614

An Evaluation of the Optimum Timing for planting Short Rotation Coppice 

04/1657

An Identification of Potential New Herbicides For Short Rotation Coppice (Task 4)

02/1344

ARBRE Monitoring - Ecology of Short Rotation Coppice Plantations Interim Report 2000 

01/768

Assessment of the Visual Impact of SRC Plantations

00/1666

A Further Evaluation of herbicides for post-emergence use in short rotation coppice

02/1561

A Trial Burn of Rape Straw and Whole Crops Harvested for Energy Use To Assess Efficiency Implications 

03/1569

A Trial Of The Suitability Of Switchgrass And Reed Canary Grass As Biofuel Crops Under UK Conditions

06/1895

Bioenergy Good Practice

00/1581

Biofuel Production from Plant Biomass Derived Sugars07/578

Biomass Combustion Gas Turbine CHP

02/1346

Biomass Fuelled Indirect Fired Micro Turbine 

05/698

Cost and Operational Acceptability Improvements of Gasifiers

03/685

Carbon and Energy Balances for a Range of Biofuels

03/836

Carbon and Energy Modelling of Biomass Systems: Conversion Plant and Data Updates 

01/1342

Cartridge Furnaces for the Biomass Industry

02/964

Commercial Woodchip Storage Drying Trials

01/1175

Design, Construction & Testing of a Continuous Flow Wood Fuel Dryer Using Low Grade Heat

00/1647

Design of A 2.5MW(e) Biomass Gasification Power Generation Module

00/1618

Development of a Small-Scale Biomass CHP System 

02/681

Development of Stoker-Burner Wood Chip Combustion Systems For the UK Market

02/1343

Development of Low-Cost Systems For Co-Utilisation of Biomass in Large Power Plant

03/1440

Distributed Power Generation Using Biogas Fuelled Microturbines

02/1345

Energy from Biomass, Volume 1: Wood Fuel Production October 1998 

98/1210

Energy from Biomass, Volume 2: Wood Fuel Supplies and Supply chains October 1998 

98/1227

Energy from Biomass, Volume 3: Converting Wood Fuel to Energy December 1998 

98/1211

Energy from Biomass, Volume 4: Anaerobic digestion for biogas December 1998 

98/1212

Energy from Biomass, Volume 5: Straw, Poultry Litter and Energy Crops as Energy Sources January 1999  

99/1399

Establishing Biomass Heating in the UK: Phase 11

00/1650

Estimating the Energy Requirements and CO2 Emissions from Production of the Perennial Grasses Miscanthus, Switchgrass and Reed Canary Grass 

01/797

Evaluating Grasses As a long Term Energy Resource

03/865

Environmental Aspects of Energy Crops

00/1669

Environmental Impacts of the Extraction of Forestry Residues

04/1080

Evaluation of Complementary Technologies To Reduce Bio Engine Emissions 

02/1437

Evaluation of UK Seed Production and Quality of Reed Canary Grass and Switchgrass

06/960

Forest Residue Baling Due Diligence Assessment, Proving & Transport Trials 

00/1608

Grasses for Energy Production Hydrological Guidelines 

03/882

Harvester development for new high yielding SRC crops and markets

04/1859

Identification and characterization of factors affecting losses in the large-scale, non-ventilated bulk storage of wood chips and development of best storage practices

02/1537

Identifying Physiological Traits For Yield In Biomass Willow

03/1301

Improving Willow Breeding Efficiency

03/1219

Improving The Water Use Efficiency of Short Rotation Coppice (SRC) Willows

03/1619

Investigation into the Practibility of Burning Biomass on Underfeed Stokers

02/1439

Landfill gas enhancement. Field trials using leachate irrigation 

00/1671

Lipase Alcoholysis of Triglycerides to Produce Tallodiesel as a Transport Fuel

06/1096

Miscanthus: Practical Aspects of Biofuel Development, Final report

03/1568

New Ecological Monitoring in Energy Crops - Methodologies

00/1692

Procedures for sampling and sample reduction. Within quality Assurance Systems for Solid Biofuels

05/1059

Optimisation of Miscanthus Harvesting and Storage   Strategies  

03/1633

Reducing Establishment Cost and Increasing Establishment Success in Miscanthus07/580

Renewable Biomass Fuel R & D Production Facility (Appendix)

04/1601

Renewable Biomass Fuel R & D Production Facility (Final Report)

04/1601

Risk Reduction Measures for the Development of Biomass Rotary Kiln Gasification

02/754

Some Aspects of Environmental Impact Assessment of Micanthus X Giganteus production in Portugal - Application of a model

00/1672

Shenstone Lodge Heating Demonstration Project: Phase 11

00/1578

Surefire Wood Fuel Harvester Development Project 

01/1515

Short Rotation Coppice for Energy Production Hydrological Guidelines

03/883

Shoot Allometry and Biomass Productivity in Poplar and Willow Varieties Grown As Short Rotation Coppice

03/1437

Technical and Economic Assessment of Energy Conversion Technologies For MSW

02/1347

Technical Development of a Retrofit Wood Burner For Coal Under-Fed Stokers in County Durham, And Set up a Demonstration Facility

02/1348

The Silviculture, Nutrition & Economics of Short Rotation Willow Coppice in the Uplands Of Mid-Wales 

00/1580

The hydrological Impacts of energy crop production in the UK

04/1600

The Effects of Energy Grass Plantations on Biodiversity. 2nd Annual Report

04/823

Technology Status Review and Carbon Abatement Potential of Renewable Transport Fuels in the UK

03/982

Topgrass - Fourth Interim Report

04/1077

Woodfuel Resource in Britain: Main Report (NB See attached letter outlining correction to estimate of available resource from FE forests in the period 2003-2006)

03/1436

Woodfuel Resource in Britain: Appendices

03/1436

A Trial of the Suitability of Switchgrass and Reed Canary Grass As Biofuel crops under UK conditions

05/1311

The effects of energy grass plantations on biodiversity

05/1307

Energy from Biomass

05/1110

Low Cost Co-Utilisation of Biomass

05/1310