Öl- und Gasforschung

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Mobilizing biomass feedstocks for advanced biofuels production

Tomislav Torić

Revitalization of marginal agriculture soils presents one of the main challenges of the Croatian and East European agriculture. One of the possible solutions for increasing biomass and bioenergy production could be the wide introduction of multiannual energy crop Miscanthus x giganteus in intensive agricultural cultivation. Miscanthus x giganteus is characterized by its ability to grow in different agroecological conditions, because the plant has low requirements during the growing and high yield production of lignocellulosic biomass. The main characteristics of grass Miscanthus x giganteus are: the possibility of growing on soils of lower quality, high resistance to various pests and diseases (no pesticide treatments), natural sterile hybrid (there is no risk for uncontrolled spreading in environment), small requirements for fertilizer, but high energy value