@article {650426, title = {Greenhouse gas emissions of a biomass-based pyrolysis plant in China}, journal = {Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews}, volume = {53}, year = {2016}, pages = {1580-1590}, abstract = {

Biomass pyrolysis offers an alternative to industrial coal-fired boilers and utilizes low temperature and long residence time to produce syngas, bio-oil and biochar. Construction of biomass-based pyrolysis plants has recently been on the rise in rural China necessitating research into the greenhouse gas emission levels produced as a result. Greenhouse gas emission intensity of a typical biomass fixed-bed pyrolysis plant in China is calculated as 1.55E-02\ kg CO2-eq/MJ. Carbon cycle of the whole process was investigated and found that if 41.02\% of the biochar returns to the field, net greenhouse gas emission is zero indicating the whole carbon cycle may be renewable. A biomass pyrolysis scenario analysis was also conducted to assess exhaust production, transportation distance and the electricity-generation structure for background information applied in the formulation of national policy.

}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032115010199}, author = {Yang, Qing and Chen, Yingquan and Yang, Haiping and Chen, Hanping} }