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Since the discussion on climate protection started and numerous countries declared defined goals for the use of renewable sources of energy in the heat, electricity as well as in the transportation sector, the request to develop promising and sustainable nonfossil energy pathways gain more and more importance on the political agenda. Under the various renewable sources of energy biomass and especially solid biofuels contribute already significantly within the global energy system mainly due to the easy availability of solid biomass and the ability to cover the given demand anytime (e.g., application for cooking purposes in developing countries, provision of heat in countries with a cold season). Beside these established pathways, new routes for an efficient and sustainable biomass use are under development. One promising example of such a new provision chain is the conversion of solid biofuels via gasification and subsequent methanation into Biosynthetic...

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Abbreviations

Biomass gasification:

Thermochemical conversion process, where the gasification media (pretreated solid fuel) is converted into a gaseous fuel (called raw gas).

Bio-SNG:

Biosynthetic Natural Gas is a gaseous biofuel provided via thermochemical conversion including the steps biomass gasification and subsequent methanation.

Methanation:

Methanation is a catalyst-based synthesis with the aim to provide methane from a syngas. Therefore, the gas components hydrogen and carbon monoxide occurring within the syngas are converted to methane and water-steam.

Tri-generation:

Technology for the parallel production of the energy carrier heat, electricity, and fuel (e.g., conversion of biomass into heat, electricity, and Bio-SNG) with varying shares according to the given demand.

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  1. German Biomass Research Centre (Deutsches BiomasseForschungsZentrum gemeinnützige GmbH), Torgauer Straße 116, 04347, Leipzig, Germany

    Michael Seiffert & Stefan Rönsch

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  1. German Biomass Research Centre, Leipzig, Germany

    Martin Kaltschmitt

  2. Institute of Environmental Technology and Energy Economics, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany

    Martin Kaltschmitt

  3. Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Nickolas J. Themelis

  4. Ormat Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV, USA

    Lucien Y. Bronicki

  5. Royal Institute of Technology, Electric Power Systems, Stockholm, Sweden

    Lennart Söder

  6. Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, School of Ocean And Earth Science And Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Luis A. Vega

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Seiffert, M., Rönsch, S. (2013). Biosynthetic Natural Gas. In: Kaltschmitt, M., Themelis, N.J., Bronicki, L.Y., Söder, L., Vega, L.A. (eds) Renewable Energy Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5820-3_256

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