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The Role of Biomass in a Future World without Fossil Fuels
Author(s) -
Henrich Edmund,
Dahmen Nicolaus,
Dinjus Eckhard,
Sauer Jörg
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemie ingenieur technik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1522-2640
pISSN - 0009-286X
DOI - 10.1002/cite.201500056
Subject(s) - biomass (ecology) , renewable energy , fossil fuel , bioenergy , environmental science , raw material , biofuel , carbon fibers , combustion , energy supply , carbon neutrality , renewable fuels , production (economics) , waste management , natural resource economics , renewable resource , chemistry , engineering , agronomy , ecology , economics , energy (signal processing) , materials science , biology , statistics , mathematics , macroeconomics , organic chemistry , composite number , composite material
The demand, production, supply and use of biomass in a future world after the depletion of fossil fuels is described. In a world without fossils, the limited biomass harvest is the only carbon source. Supply of food and feed has first priority. Demand, supply and use of biomass as the only carbon raw material for the production of a number of indispensable carbon products are analyzed. Bioenergy via combustion plays a significant, but not a decisive role, because the future energy mix is dominated by other renewables. Despite considerable uncertainties of the long‐term assessment, some clear hints for a reasonable further development of biomass technologies can be extracted.