Use of agricultural waste to generate bioenergy: presentation of five ideas for industrial sectors

Abstract

Promoting the use of renewable energy sources is becoming an important political strategy worldwide to mitigate climate change and improve energy security and economic sustainability, in addition to contributing to the commitments assumed internationally by several countries to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. carbon (CO2) in the atmosphere. It is essential to use new energy sources to overcome the problems caused by non-renewable energy sources. In order to investigate and understand the opportunities for implementing new renewable energy sources, a Systematic Bibliographic Review (SBR) was planned and executed. It was found that agricultural waste has great potential to receive significant attention around the world as an alternative, sustainable and green energy source. However, in general, existing studies on agricultural residues for bioenergy generation are relatively few, and still have important gaps, compared to other renewable energy sources that have received much attention in the last ten years (2012-2022), as is the case of wind and solar energy. The use of agricultural residues to generate bioenergy is a broad and favorable scenario for exploration. Paths, almost unexplored, were identified with potential for carrying out studies that aim to contribute and stimulate researchers and industrial sectors in order to deliver technological solutions to society and industrial sectors in order to encourage the use of agricultural residues, for the production of briquettes and pellets , as a sustainable alternative, for the purpose of generating bioenergy, aiming to contribute to an increasingly sustainable energy matrix.