Abstract: © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Biomass is a promising sustainable and renewable energy source, due to its high diversity of sources, and as it is profusely obtainable everywhere in the world. It is the third most important fuel source used to generate electricity and for thermal applications, as 50% of the global population depends on biomass. The increase in availability and technological developments of recent years allow the use of biomass as a renewable energy source with low levels of emissions and environmental...
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Topics: 
Waste management
Natural resource economics
Process engineering