Bioenergy, A Promising Renewable Energy and Its Technology

 ——Master Degree Course of Sustainable Development

Objective of lecture:

    To give the students with fundamental knowledge of bioenergy; Introducing current status of energy situation in China, as well as the relationship between the consumption of fossil fuel and sustainability; To describe the practical utilization of bioenergy in China, its potentials of resources, technologies, policies and barriers; To discuss some ‘hot point’ issues of bioenergy.

Chinese Bioenergy, Status, Technologies and Policy Issues

Introduction

Definition (modern bioenergy and traditional one)

Brief history of modern bioenergy development

World’s situation of bioenergy

Chapter 1   Relationship between Bioenergy and Sustainable Development

General viewpoints

Particular importance of bioenergy for China’s Sustainable Development

Chapter 2   Classification of biomass and utilization of modern bioenergy

Feedstocks: Agro-wastes (including crop residues), Municipal wastes and landfill, Energy plants (including algae)

Products: Liquid biofuels, bio-oil, pellet & briquette, biogas, gaseous biomass

Conversion technologies, taking agrowastes as an example

Chapter 3   Status of Chinese bioenergy and bottlenecks to development

Situation of utilizing traditional bioenergy in rural China

Current status of exploring modern bioenergy

Feedstocks of bioenergy, assessment, and national plan of exploration

Special Topic 1.  Utilization of biogas and agro-wastes

Special Topic 2.  Two specific energy crops: cassava and sweet sorghum

Special Topic 3.  Power generation using crop residues

Chapter 4   Some ‘hot point’ issues

Comparative studies between China and developing countries

Power generation by means of using crop residues

Treatment of livestock excreta and derivation of bioenergy from it

The importance of biogas and the potentials of industrial biogas

Relation between energy security and food security, its particularity in China

A seldom chance, “leapfrog” paradigm for China, brought by bioenergy

Key issues for bright future of bioenergy