Quantitative Assessment of Bioenergy from Crop Stalk Resources in Inner
Applied Energy 93 (2012) 305–318 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Applied Energy journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/apenergy Quantitative assessment of bioenergy from crop stalk resources in Inner Mongolia, China ⇑ Jin Liu a,b, Jianguo Wu c,d, , Fengqiao Liu d, Xingguo Han a,e a State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China b Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China c Sino-US Center for Conservation, Energy, and Sustainability Science, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China d School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA e Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China article info abstract Article history: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) is one of China’s strategic energy bases for the 21st century. Received 28 September 2011 While bioenergy in IMAR may play an important role in securing future energy supply, little research has Received in revised form 15 December 2011 been done so far, particularly for crop stalk resources as a potential source of bioenergy in this region. In Accepted 15 December 2011 this study we systematically analyzed the temporal and spatial patterns of crop stalk resources, evaluated Available online 18 January 2012 the bioenergy potential of crop stalk resources, and explored possible pathways of developing stalk-based energy strategies in Inner Mongolia. Our results show that the total crop stalk yield in IMAR increased Keywords: consistently from 1980 to 2008, with an average annual increase of 16.3%.
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