{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"id": "10.1111/agec.12057", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:19:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-07-08", "title": "Competition For Land In The Global Bioeconomy", "description": "Abstract<p>The global land use implications of biofuel expansion have received considerable attention in the literature over the past decade. Model\uffe2\uff80\uff90based estimates of the emissions from cropland expansion have been used to assess the environmental impacts of biofuel policies. And integrated assessment models have estimated the potential for biofuels to contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement over the coming century. All of these studies feature, explicitly or implicitly, competition between biofuel feed stocks and other land uses. However, the economic mechanisms governing this competition, as well as the contribution of biofuels to global land use change, have not received the close scrutiny that they deserve. The purpose of this article is to offer a deeper look at these factors. We begin with a comparative static analysis which assesses the impact of exogenously specified forecasts of biofuel expansion over the period: 2006\uffe2\uff80\uff932035. Global land use change is decomposed according to the three key margins of economic response: extensive supply, intensive supply, and demand. Under the International Energy Agency's \uffe2\uff80\uff9cNew Policies\uffe2\uff80\uff9d scenario, biofuels account for nearly one\uffe2\uff80\uff90fifth of global land use change over the 2006\uffe2\uff80\uff932035 period. The article also offers a comparative dynamic analysis which determines the optimal path for first and second generation biofuels over the course of the entire 21st century. In the absence of GHG regulation, the welfare\uffe2\uff80\uff90maximizing path for global land use, in the face of 3% annual growth in oil prices, allocates 225 Mha to biofuel feed stocks by 2100, with the associated biofuels accounting for about 30% of global liquid fuel consumption. This area expansion is somewhat diminished by expected climate change impacts on agriculture, while it is significantly increased by an aggressive GHG emissions target and by advances in conversion efficiency of second generation biofuels.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "0502 economics and business", "05 social sciences", "11. Sustainability", "Biofuels", " global land use", " partial equilibrium analysis", " comparative statics", " comparative dynamics", " climate change impacts", " carbon policies", " Land Economics/Use", " Resource /Energy Economics and Policy", " Q11", " Q15", " Q24", " Q42", " Q54", "", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "12. 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Hertel,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12057"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agricultural%20Economics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/agec.12057", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/agec.12057", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/agec.12057"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1757-1707.2010.01055.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:19:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-07-09", "title": "Bioenergy By-Products As Soil Amendments? Implications For Carbon Sequestration And Greenhouse Gas Emissions", "description": "Abstract<p>An important but little understood aspect of bioenergy production is its overall impact on soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling. Increased energy production from biomass will inevitably lead to higher input of its by\uffe2\uff80\uff90products to the soil as amendments or fertilizers. However, it is still unclear how these by\uffe2\uff80\uff90products will influence microbial transformation processes in soil, and thereby its greenhouse gas (GHG) balance and organic C stocks. In this study, we assess C and N dynamics and GHG emissions following application of different bioenergy by\uffe2\uff80\uff90products to soil. Ten by\uffe2\uff80\uff90products were selected from different bioenergy chains: anaerobic digestion (manure digestates), first generation biofuel by\uffe2\uff80\uff90products (rapeseed meal, distilled dried grains with solubles), second\uffe2\uff80\uff90generation biofuel by\uffe2\uff80\uff90products (nonfermentables from hydrolysis of different lignocellulosic materials) and pyrolysis (biochars). These by\uffe2\uff80\uff90products were added at a constant N rate (150\uffe2\uff80\uff83kg\uffe2\uff80\uff83N\uffe2\uff80\uff83ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921) to a sandy soil and incubated at 20\uffe2\uff80\uff83\uffc2\uffb0C. After 60 days, &gt;80% of applied C had been emitted as CO2 in the first\uffe2\uff80\uff90generation biofuel residue treatments. For second\uffe2\uff80\uff90generation biofuel residues this was approximately 60%, and for digestates 40%. Biochars were the most stable residues with the lowest CO2 loss (between 0.5% and 5.8% of total added C). Regarding N2O emissions, addition of first\uffe2\uff80\uff90generation biofuel residues led to the highest total N2O emissions (between 2.5% and 6.0% of applied N). Second\uffe2\uff80\uff90generation biofuel residues emitted between 1.0% and 2.0% of applied N, with the original feedstock material resulting in similar N2O emissions and higher C mineralization rates. Anaerobic digestates resulted in emissions &lt;1% of applied N. The two biochars used in this study decreased N2O emissions below background values. We conclude that GHG dynamics of by\uffe2\uff80\uff90products after soil amendment cannot be ignored and should be part of the lifecycle analysis of the various bioenergy production chains.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "decomposition", "biomass", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "part 2", "7. Clean energy", "biofuels", "6. Clean water", "feedlot cattle", "12. Responsible consumption", "corn", "dried distillers grains", "13. 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Land conversion for agricultural and urban uses has already imperiled many animal species in the state. This study investigated the potential impacts on wildlife of shifts in agricultural activity to increase biomass production for transportation fuels. We applied knowledge of the suitability ofCalifornia's agricultural landscapes for wildlife species to evaluate wildlife effects associated with plausible scenarios of expanded production of three potential biofuel crops (sugar beets, bermudagrass, and canola). We also generated alternative, spatially explicit scenarios that minimized loss of habitat for the same level of biofuel production. We explored trade\uffe2\uff80\uff90offs to compare the marginal changes per unit of energy for transportation costs, wildlife, land and water\uffe2\uff80\uff90use, and total energy produced, and found that all five factors were influenced by crop choice. Sugar beet scenarios require the least land area: 3.5 times less land per liter of gasoline equivalent than bermudagrass and five times less than canola. Canola scenarios had the largest impacts on wildlife but the greatest reduction in water use. Bermudagrass scenarios resulted in a slight overall improvement for wildlife over the current situation. Relatively minor redistribution of lands converted to biofuel crops could produce the same energy yield with much less impact on wildlife and very small increases in transportation costs. This framework provides a means to systematically evaluate potential wildlife impacts of alternative production scenarios and could be a useful complement to other frameworks that assess impacts on ecosystem services and greenhouse gas emissions.</p>", "keywords": ["geographic information systems", "2. Zero hunger", "habitat suitability", "agroecosystems", "Life on Land", "California Wildlife Habitat Relationships system", "Agricultural Biotechnology", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "renewable energy", "7. Clean energy", "biofuels", "12. Responsible consumption", "Climate Action", "biomass feedstock", "trade-offs", "water demand", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "Marxan"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt40f8x430/qt40f8x430.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01130.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/GCB%20Bioenergy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01130.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01130.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01130.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-11-02T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1146/annurev-resource-091912-151933", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "unspecified", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:20:01Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-06-01", "title": "The Perverse Effects Of Biofuel Public-Sector Policies", "description": "<p>Biofuel policies are a subset of policies designed to achieve energy security, an improved environment, enhanced agricultural incomes, technological change, and overall economic benefits, with increased domestic energy production creating green jobs and foreign exchange savings. In assessing this broad spectrum of proclaimed policy goals with the outcome of biofuel mandates, subsidies, import barriers, binary sustainability standards, and indirect land use measures, we identify many perverse and contradictory effects. Most importantly, we show how biofuel policies established the crop-energy price link and hence the food-fuel trade-off, the contradictory effects of combining mandates with different subsidies, the various surprising welfare economic effects, and the various inconsistencies associated with binary sustainability standards and carbon leakages. We conclude with examples of how biofuel policies have generated paradoxical effects in many other different dimensions.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "biofuels", " mandates", " subsidies", " tariffs", " externalities", " greenhouse gases", " traffic congestion", " air pollution", " burden of taxation", " agriculture", " environment", " energy", "05 social sciences", "1. No poverty", "jel:H23", "7. Clean energy", "jel:H21", "12. Responsible consumption", "13. Climate action", "jel:Q54", "0502 economics and business", "11. Sustainability", "jel:Q48", "jel:Q56", "jel:R48"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Harry de Gorter, Dusan Drabik, David R. Just,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-091912-151933"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Annual%20Review%20of%20Resource%20Economics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1146/annurev-resource-091912-151933", "name": "item", "description": "10.1146/annurev-resource-091912-151933", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1146/annurev-resource-091912-151933"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1155/2012/623070", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:20:01Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-08-05", "title": "Environmental Impacts Of Jatropha Curcas Biodiesel In India", "description": "<p>In the context of energy security, rural development and climate change, India actively promotes the cultivation ofJatropha curcas, a biodiesel feedstock which has been identified as suitable for achieving the Indian target of 20% biofuel blending by 2017. In this paper, we present results concerning the range of environmental impacts of differentJatropha curcascultivation systems. Moreover, nine agronomic trials in Andhra Pradesh are analysed, in which the yield was measured as a function of different inputs such as water, fertilizer, pesticides, and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Further, the environmental impact of the wholeJatropha curcasbiodiesel value chain is benchmarked with fossil diesel, following the ISO 14040/44 life cycle assessment procedure. Overall, this study shows that the use ofJatropha curcasbiodiesel generally reduces the global warming potential and the nonrenewable energy demand as compared to fossil diesel. On the other hand, the environmental impacts on acidification, ecotoxicity, eutrophication, and water depletion all showed increases. Key for reducing the environmental impact ofJatropha curcasbiodiesel is the resource efficiency during crop cultivation (especially mineral fertilizer application) and the optimal site selection of theJatropha curcasplantations.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Fossil Fuels", "Esterification", "Conservation of Energy Resources", "India", "Agriculture", "Jatropha", "02 engineering and technology", "Environment", "15. Life on land", "Global Warming", "7. Clean energy", "Carbon", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption", "13. Climate action", "Biofuels", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "Plant Oils", "Research Article"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Gm\u00fcnder, Simon, Singh, Reena, Pfister, Stephan; id_orcid0000-0001-8984-2041, Adheloya, Alok, Zah, Rainer,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/623070"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Biomedicine%20and%20Biotechnology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1155/2012/623070", "name": "item", "description": "10.1155/2012/623070", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1155/2012/623070"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1163/18760104-20020007", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:20:03Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-06-30", "title": "Nature-Based Solution to Man-Made Problems: Fostering the Uptake of Phytoremediation and Low-iluc Biofuels in the EU", "description": "Abstract <p>Soil contamination represents a major global environmental threat. Only in the European Union, around 340.000 contaminated sites are inventoried. At the same time, the need to foster the uptake of sustainable biofuels to curb greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector is one of the pillars of the EU\uffe2\uff80\uff99s climate action to achieve the overarching goals set under the European Climate Law and the Renewable Energy Directive. Against this backdrop, nature-based solutions for soil remediation are increasingly being advocated as sustainable options to enhance soil biodiversity while addressing soil contamination in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and, in the EU, the European Green Deal and the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. Among several nature-based soil remediation techniques, phytoremediation consists of the use of plants and their associated microbes to stabilise, degrade, volatilise and extract soil pollutants. Furthermore, the non-food biomass generated as a result of phytoremediation could provide a meaningful low Indirect Land Use Change (iluc) feedstock for the production of advanced biofuels to reduce climate change.</p> <p>This paper addresses the policy and legal background surrounding the uptake of phytoremediation and recovery of output materials focusing on existing roadblocks currently hampering the full-scale adoption of such a complex yet inherently circular value chain. The paper concludes that meaningful steps must yet be taken to properly embed nature-based soil remediation techniques, such as phytoremediation, in the current legal framework and to ensure social ownership of the same to maximise its environmental benefits.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "advanced biofuels", "soil pollution", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "phytoremediation", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "soil strategy", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "European Green Deal", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1163/18760104-20020007"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20for%20European%20Environmental%20%26amp%3B%20Planning%20Law", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1163/18760104-20020007", "name": "item", "description": "10.1163/18760104-20020007", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1163/18760104-20020007"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-06-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/agronomy15030601", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:21:39Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-02-28", "title": "Phytoremediation of Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons-Contaminated Soils: Case Study of Jerusalem Artichokes with Cost Analysis and Biomass Conversion", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The application of environmentally friendly technologies, such as phytoremediation, for contaminated soil remediation and biofuel generation should be one of the goals of sustainable development. Phytoremediation is based on the use of plants and their associated microorganisms to clean contaminated soils, resulting in a positive impact on the environment and the production of biomass that can be utilized for biofuel production. Combining phytoremediation with advanced thermochemical conversion technologies like thermo-catalytic reforming process (TCR) allows for the production of high-quality biochar, bio-oil comparable to fossil crude oil, and hydrogen-rich syngas. This study presents a full-scale phytoremediation experiment conducted at a former oil storage site using energy crops like Jerusalem artichokes (Helianthus tuberosus), where the biomass was later converted into biofuel and other by-products using lab-scale technology. Significant and promising results were obtained: (i) within two years, the initial total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) contamination level (698 mg/kg) was reduced to a permissible level (146 mg/kg); (ii) the yield of the harvested Jerusalem artichoke biomass reached 18.3 t/ha dry weight; (iii) the thermochemical conversion produced high-quality products, such as a thermally stable oil a higher heating value (HHV) of 33.85 MJ/kg; (iv) the two-year phytoremediation costs for the rejuvenated soil amounted to3.75 EUR/t.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Thermo-catalytic reforming", "S", "Biofuels", "Jerusalem artichoke", "Agriculture", "phytoremediation", "field trials", "thermo-catalytic reforming", "biofuels", "Phytoremediation"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy15030601"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agronomy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/agronomy15030601", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/agronomy15030601", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/agronomy15030601"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-02-28T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0034887", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:20:14Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-04-19", "title": "Changes In The Diversity Of Soil Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi After Cultivation For Biofuel Production In A Guantanamo (Cuba) Tropical System", "description": "Open AccessLes champignons mycorhiziens arbusculaires (FMA) sont un \u00e9l\u00e9ment cl\u00e9 et int\u00e9gral de la stabilit\u00e9, de la durabilit\u00e9 et du fonctionnement des \u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes. Dans cette \u00e9tude, nous avons caract\u00e9ris\u00e9 la biodiversit\u00e9 de l'AMF dans un sol v\u00e9g\u00e9tal natif et dans un sol cultiv\u00e9 avec Jatropha curcas ou Ricinus communis, dans un syst\u00e8me tropical \u00e0 Guantanamo (Cuba), afin de v\u00e9rifier si un changement d'utilisation des terres pour la production de plantes biocarburants a eu un effet sur les communaut\u00e9s de l'AMF. Nous \u00e9valuons \u00e9galement si certaines propri\u00e9t\u00e9s du sol li\u00e9es \u00e0 la fertilit\u00e9 du sol (N total, C organique, biomasse microbienne C, pourcentage de stabilit\u00e9 globale, pH et conductivit\u00e9 \u00e9lectrique) ont \u00e9t\u00e9 modifi\u00e9es avec la culture des deux esp\u00e8ces de cultures. Les g\u00e8nes d'ARNr de la petite sous-unit\u00e9 fongique AM (SSU) ont \u00e9t\u00e9 soumis \u00e0 une PCR, \u00e0 un clonage, \u00e0 un s\u00e9quen\u00e7age et \u00e0 des analyses phylog\u00e9n\u00e9tiques. Vingt types de s\u00e9quences fongiques AM ont \u00e9t\u00e9 identifi\u00e9s\u00a0: 19 appartiennent aux Glomeraceae et un aux Paraglomeraceae. Deux types de s\u00e9quences d'AMF li\u00e9s \u00e0 des esp\u00e8ces d'AMF cultiv\u00e9es (Glo G3 pour Glomus sinuosum et Glo G6 pour Glomus intraradices-G. fasciculatum-G. irregulare) ne se sont pas produits dans le sol cultiv\u00e9 avec J. curcas et R. communis. Les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s du sol (N total, C organique et biomasse microbienne C) \u00e9taient plus \u00e9lev\u00e9es dans le sol cultiv\u00e9 avec les deux esp\u00e8ces v\u00e9g\u00e9tales. La diversit\u00e9 de la communaut\u00e9 AMF a diminu\u00e9 dans le sol des deux cultures, par rapport au sol v\u00e9g\u00e9tal indig\u00e8ne, et variait consid\u00e9rablement en fonction des esp\u00e8ces cultiv\u00e9es plant\u00e9es. Ainsi, le sol de R. communis pr\u00e9sentait une diversit\u00e9 AMF plus \u00e9lev\u00e9e que le sol de J. curcas. En conclusion, R. communis pourrait \u00eatre plus adapt\u00e9 \u00e0 la conservation \u00e0 long terme et \u00e0 la gestion durable de ces \u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes tropicaux.", "keywords": ["Biomass (ecology)", "Jatropha", "Plant Science", "Plant Roots", "7. Clean energy", "Fungal Diversity", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Soil", "Mycorrhizae", "Jatropha curcas", "Soil water", "Saproxylic Insect Ecology and Forest Management", "Mycological Typing Techniques", "Phylogeny", "Soil Microbiology", "2. Zero hunger", "Ecology", "Q", "R", "Cuba", "Life Sciences", "Agriculture", "Biodiversity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Hydrogen-Ion Concentration", "Medicine", "Research Article", "Science", "Soil fertility", "12. Responsible consumption", "Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions", "Health Sciences", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "Ribosome Subunits", " Small", " Eukaryotic", "Pharmacology", "Tropical Climate", "Soil organic matter", "Electric Conductivity", "Botany", "Medicinal Mushrooms: Antitumor and Immunomodulating Properties", "Spore", "15. Life on land", "Agronomy", "Glomus", "Molecular Typing", "Biofuels", "Insect Science", "FOS: Biological sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Ricinus communis"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034887"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0034887", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0034887", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0034887"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-04-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0072019", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:20:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-08-21", "title": "Predicting Greenhouse Gas Emissions And Soil Carbon From Changing Pasture To An Energy Crop", "description": "Bioenergy related land use change would likely alter biogeochemical cycles and global greenhouse gas budgets. Energy cane (Saccharum officinarum L.) is a sugarcane variety and an emerging biofuel feedstock for cellulosic bio-ethanol production. It has potential for high yields and can be grown on marginal land, which minimizes competition with grain and vegetable production. The DayCent biogeochemical model was parameterized to infer potential yields of energy cane and how changing land from grazed pasture to energy cane would affect greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4 and N2O) fluxes and soil C pools. The model was used to simulate energy cane production on two soil types in central Florida, nutrient poor Spodosols and organic Histosols. Energy cane was productive on both soil types (yielding 46-76 Mg dry mass \u00b7 ha(-1)). Yields were maintained through three annual cropping cycles on Histosols but declined with each harvest on Spodosols. Overall, converting pasture to energy cane created a sink for GHGs on Spodosols and reduced the size of the GHG source on Histosols. This change was driven on both soil types by eliminating CH4 emissions from cattle and by the large increase in C uptake by greater biomass production in energy cane relative to pasture. However, the change from pasture to energy cane caused Histosols to lose 4493 g CO2 eq \u00b7 m(-2) over 15 years of energy cane production. Cultivation of energy cane on former pasture on Spodosol soils in the southeast US has the potential for high biomass yield and the mitigation of GHG emissions.", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "Greenhouse Effect", "Science", "Nitrous Oxide", "Models", " Biological", "7. Clean energy", "12. Responsible consumption", "Soil", "11. Sustainability", "Animals", "Biomass", "Ecosystem", "2. Zero hunger", "Q", "R", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", "Saccharum", "13. Climate action", "Biofuels", "Florida", "Medicine", "Regression Analysis", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Cattle", "Gases", "Methane", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072019"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0072019", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0072019", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0072019"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-08-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.17221/124/2011-agricecon", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:20:36Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-02-11", "title": "&Nbsp; Biofuels: Policies And Impacts", "description": "This paper provides a general overview of the technological, social, environmental, economical, and policy considerations related to biofuels. While the biofuel production and consumption exhibited significant increase over the first decade of the new millennium, this and further increases in biofuel production are driven primarily by government policies. Currently available first generation biofuels are not economically viable in the absence of fiscal incentives or high oil prices (with a few exceptional cases, especially in the case of the most developed Brazilian sugarcane production of ethanol). Also the environmental impacts of biofuels as an alternative to fossil fuels are quite ambiguous. The literature review of the most recent economic models dealing with biofuels and their economic impacts provides a distinction between structural and reduced form models. The discussion of structural models centres primarily on computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. The review of reduced models is structured toward the time series analysis approach to the dependencies between prices of biofuels, prices of agricultural commodities used for the biofuel production and prices of the fossil fuels.", "keywords": ["S", "13. Climate action", "0502 economics and business", "05 social sciences", "8. Economic growth", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "biodiesel", "Agriculture", "ethanol", "02 engineering and technology", "7. Clean energy", "biofuels"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Ladislav Kristoufek, David Zilberman, Karel Janda,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.17221/124/2011-agricecon"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agricultural%20Economics%20%28Zem%C4%9Bd%C4%9Blsk%C3%A1%20ekonomika%29", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.17221/124/2011-agricecon", "name": "item", "description": "10.17221/124/2011-agricecon", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.17221/124/2011-agricecon"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-08-31T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/09-0501.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:20:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-06-10", "title": "Interactions Among Bioenergy Feedstock Choices, Landscape Dynamics, And Land Use", "description": "Landscape implications of bioenergy feedstock choices are significant and depend on land-use practices and their environmental impacts. Although land-use changes and carbon emissions associated with bioenergy feedstock production are dynamic and complicated, lignocellulosic feedstocks may offer opportunities that enhance sustainability when compared to other transportation fuel alternatives. For bioenergy sustainability, major drivers and concerns revolve around energy security, food production, land productivity, soil carbon and erosion, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, air quality, and water quantity and quality. The many implications of bioenergy feedstock choices require several indicators at multiple scales to provide a more complete accounting of effects. Ultimately, the long-term sustainability of bioenergy feedstock resources (as well as food supplies) throughout the world depends on land-use practices and landscape dynamics. Land-management decisions often invoke trade-offs among potential environmental effects and social and economic factors as well as future opportunities for resource use. The hypothesis being addressed in this paper is that sustainability of bioenergy feedstock production can be achieved via appropriately designed crop residue and perennial lignocellulosic systems. We find that decision makers need scientific advancements and adequate data that both provide quantitative and qualitative measures of the effects of bioenergy feedstock choices at different spatial and temporal scales and allow fair comparisons among available options for renewable liquid fuels.", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "2. Zero hunger", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "Carbon", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption", "Socioeconomic Factors", "13. Climate action", "Biofuels", "11. Sustainability", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "Human Activities", "Biomass", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/09-0501.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/09-0501.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/09-0501.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/09-0501.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/12-0711.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:20:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-06-27", "title": "Biofuels On The Landscape: Is \"Land Sharing\" Preferable To \"Land Sparing\"?", "description": "<p>Widespread land use changes, and ensuing effects on ecosystem services, are expected from expanding bioenergy production. Although most U.S. production of ethanol is from corn, it is envisaged that future ethanol production will also draw from cellulosic sources such as perennial grasses. In selecting optimal bioenergy crops, there is debate as to whether it is preferable from an environmental standpoint to cultivate bioenergy crops with high ecosystem services (a \uffe2\uff80\uff9cland\uffe2\uff80\uff90sharing\uffe2\uff80\uff9d strategy) or to grow crops with lower ecosystem services but higher yield, thereby requiring less land to meet bioenergy demand (a \uffe2\uff80\uff9cland\uffe2\uff80\uff90sparing\uffe2\uff80\uff9d strategy). Here, we develop a simple model to address this question. Assuming that bioenergy crops are competing with uncultivated land, our model calculates land requirements to meet a given bioenergy demand intensity based upon the yields of bioenergy crops. The model combines fractional land cover of each ecosystem type with its associated ecosystem services to determine whether land\uffe2\uff80\uff90sharing or land\uffe2\uff80\uff90sparing strategies maximize ecosystem services at the landscape level. We apply this model to a case in which climate protection through GHG regulation\uffe2\uff80\uff94an ecosystem's greenhouse gas value (GHGV)\uffe2\uff80\uff94is the ecosystem service of interest. Our results show that the relative advantages of land sparing and land sharing depend upon the type of ecosystem displaced by the bioenergy crop; as the GHGV of the unfarmed land increases, the preferable strategy shifts from land sharing to land sparing. Although it may be preferable to replace ecologically degraded land with high\uffe2\uff80\uff90GHGV, lower yielding bioenergy crops, average landscape GHGV will most often be maximized through high\uffe2\uff80\uff90yielding bioenergy crops that leave more land for uncultivated, high\uffe2\uff80\uff90GHGV ecosystems. Although our case study focuses on GHGV, the same principles will be applicable to any ecosystem service whose value does not depend upon the spatial configuration of the landscape. Whenever bioenergy crops have substantially lower ecosystem services than the ecosystems with which they are competing for land, the most effective strategy for meeting bioenergy demand while maximizing ecosystem services on a landscape level is one of land sparing: focusing simultaneously on maximizing the yield of bioenergy crops while preserving or restoring natural ecosystems.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Climate Change", "Models", " Theoretical", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "Biofuels", "Biomass", "Ecosystem", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/12-0711.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/12-0711.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/12-0711.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/12-0711.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.2134/jeq2011.0077", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:20:57Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-06-29", "title": "Capacity Of Biochar Application To Maintain Energy Crop Productivity: Soil Chemistry, Sorghum Growth, And Runoff Water Quality Effects", "description": "Pyrolysis of crop biomass generates a by-product, biochar, which can be recycled to sustain nutrient and organic C concentrations in biomass production fields. We evaluated effects of biochar rate and application method on soil properties, nutrient balance, biomass production, and water quality. Three replications of eight sorghum [ (L.) Moench] treatments were installed in box lysimeters under greenhouse conditions. Treatments comprised increasing rates (0, 1.5, and 3.0 Mg ha) of topdressed or incorporated biochar supplemented with N fertilizer or N, P, and K fertilizer. Simulated rain was applied at 21 and 34 d after planting, and mass runoff loss of N, P, and K was measured. A mass balance of total N, P, and K was performed after 45 d. Returning 3.0 Mg ha of biochar did not affect sorghum biomass, soil total, or Mehlich-3-extractable nutrients compared to control soil. Yet, biochar contributed to increased concentration of dissolved reactive phosphorus (DRP) and mass loss of total phosphorus (TP) in simulated runoff, especially if topdressed. It was estimated that up to 20% of TP in topdressed biochar was lost in surface runoff after two rain events. Poor recovery of nutrients during pyrolysis and excessive runoff loss of nutrients for topdressed biochar, especially K, resulted in negative nutrient balances. Efforts to conserve nutrients during pyrolysis and incorporation of biochar at rates derived from annual biomass yields will be necessary for biochar use in sustainable energy crop production.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Nitrogen", "Phosphorus", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Biofuels", "Charcoal", "Potassium", "Water Movements", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "14. Life underwater", "Sorghum", "Environmental Monitoring"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2011.0077"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Quality", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.2134/jeq2011.0077", "name": "item", "description": "10.2134/jeq2011.0077", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.2134/jeq2011.0077"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.2134/jeq2012.0210", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:20:58Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-01-08", "title": "Reduced Nitrogen Losses After Conversion Of Row Crop Agriculture To Perennial Biofuel Crops", "description": "Current biofuel feedstock crops such as corn lead to large environmental losses of N through nitrate leaching and NO emissions; second-generation cellulosic crops have the potential to reduce these N losses. We measured N losses and cycling in establishing miscanthus (), switchgrass ( L. fertilized with 56 kg N ha yr), and mixed prairie, along with a corn ( L.)-corn-soybean [ (L.) Merr.] rotation (corn fertilized at 168-202 kg N ha). Nitrous oxide emissions, soil N mineralization, mid-profile nitrate leaching, and tile flow and nitrate concentrations were measured. Perennial crops quickly reduced nitrate leaching at a 50-cm soil depth as well as concentrations and loads from the tile systems (year 1 tile nitrate concentrations of 10-15 mg N L declined significantly by year 4 in all perennial crops to <0.6 mg N L, with losses of <0.8 kg N ha yr). Nitrous oxide emissions were 2.2 to 7.7 kg N ha yr in the corn-corn-soybean rotation but were <1.0 kg N ha yr by year 4 in the perennial crops. Overall N balances (atmospheric deposition + fertilization + soybean N fixation - harvest, leaching losses, and NO emissions) were positive for corn and soybean (22 kg N ha yr) as well as switchgrass (9.7 kg N ha yr) but were -18 and -29 kg N ha yr for prairie and miscanthus, respectively. Our results demonstrate rapid tightening of the N cycle as perennial biofuel crops established on a rich Mollisol soil.", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "2. Zero hunger", "Nitrogen", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Zea mays", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Biofuels", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2012.0210"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Quality", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.2134/jeq2012.0210", "name": "item", "description": "10.2134/jeq2012.0210", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.2134/jeq2012.0210"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/app12094623", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:21:39Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-05-05", "title": "Opportunities for Low Indirect Land Use Biomass for Biofuels in Europe", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Sustainable biofuels are an important tool for the decarbonisation of transport. This is especially true in aviation, maritime, and heavy-duty sectors with limited short-term alternatives. Their use by conventional transport fleets requires few changes to the existing infrastructure and engines, and thus their integration can be smooth and relatively rapid. Provision of feedstock should comply with sustainability principles for (i) producing additional biomass without distorting food and feed markets and (ii) addressing challenges for ecosystem services, including biodiversity, and soil quality. This paper performs a meta-analysis of current research for low indirect land use change (ILUC) risk biomass crops for sustainable biofuels that benefited either from improved agricultural practices or from cultivation in unused, abandoned, or severely degraded land. Two categories of biomass crops are considered here: oil and lignocellulosic. The findings confirm that there are significant opportunities to cultivate these crops in European agro-ecological zones with sustainable agronomic practices both in farming land and in land with natural constraints (unused, abandoned, and degraded land). These could produce additional low environmental impact feedstocks for biofuels and deliver economic benefits to farmers.</p></article>", "keywords": ["advanced biofuels", "Technology", "Chemistry", " Multidisciplinary", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "630", "CROP-ROTATION", "CARBON", "Engineering", "11. Sustainability", "land use change; low ILUC; oil crops; lignocellulosic crops; advanced biofuels; sustainability; marginal land; degraded land", "ALTERNATIVE FUELS", "Biology (General)", "2. Zero hunger", "Multidisciplinary", "marginal land", "T", "Physics", "sustainability", "Engineering (General). 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Climate action", "CRAMBE-ABYSSINICA", "degraded land"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/9/4623/pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.polito.it/bitstream/11583/2995521/1/applsci-12-04623-v3.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/9/4623/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/app12094623"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/app12094623", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/app12094623", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/app12094623"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-05-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.26240/heal.ntua.27962", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:21:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-08-15", "title": "An Assessment of Liquid Biofuel Value Chains from Heavy-Metal Contaminated Feedstock", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The present work aims to identify alternative liquid biofuel value chain scenarios utilizing heavy metal (HM)-contaminated biomass feedstocks. The analysis is based on breaking down existing liquid biofuel value chains, focusing on the required adaptations needed for clean biofuel production. State-of-the-art and emerging liquid biofuel production options are reviewed. The potential implications caused by the HM load in the biomass feedstock are analyzed along the whole biofuel production chain, which includes pre-processing, conversion and post-processing stages. The fate of the most common HM species present in contaminated biomass is identified and graphically represented for advanced (second generation) biofuel conversion processes. This information synthesis leads to the description of alternative value chains, capable of producing HM-free biofuel. This work goes a step further than existing reviews of experiments and simulations regarding heavy metal-contaminated biomass (HMCB) valorization to biofuels since feasible value chains are described by synthesizing the findings of the several studies examined. By defining the adapted value chains, the \u201croad is paved\u201d toward establishing realistic process chains and determining system boundaries, which actually are essential methodological steps of various critical evaluation and optimization methodologies, such as Life Cycle Assessment, supply chain optimization and techno-economic assessment of the total value chain.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Biofuel upgrading", "\u0391\u03bb\u03c5\u03c3\u03af\u03b4\u03b1 \u03b1\u03be\u03af\u03b1\u03c2", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology", "Fuel", "Liquid biofuels", "\u0392\u03b1\u03c1\u03ad\u03b1 \u03bc\u03ad\u03c4\u03b1\u03bb\u03bb\u03b1", "7. Clean energy", "contaminated biomass feedstock", "\u039c\u03bf\u03bb\u03c5\u03c3\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03b7 \u03b2\u03b9\u03bf\u03bc\u03ac\u03b6\u03b1", "TP315-360", "Heavy metals", "\u03a5\u03b3\u03c1\u03ac \u03b2\u03b9\u03bf\u03ba\u03b1\u03cd\u03c3\u03b9\u03bc\u03b1", "13. Climate action", "Value chains", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "Contaminated biomass feedstock", "liquid biofuels", "heavy metals", "value chains", "\u0391\u03bd\u03b1\u03b2\u03ac\u03b8\u03bc\u03b9\u03c3\u03b7 \u03b2\u03b9\u03bf\u03ba\u03b1\u03c5\u03c3\u03af\u03bc\u03bf\u03c5"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2673-3994/3/3/31/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.26240/heal.ntua.27962"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Fuels", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.26240/heal.ntua.27962", "name": "item", "description": "10.26240/heal.ntua.27962", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.26240/heal.ntua.27962"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-08-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/en18143846", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:21:41Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-07-21", "title": "Biofuels Production Using Structured Catalyst in Fischer\u2013Tropsch Synthesis", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The biomass-to-liquid process is a promising alternative for sustainably meeting the growing demand for liquid fuels. This study focuses on the fabrication, characterization, and performance of a structured iron catalyst for producing hydrocarbons through Fischer\u2013Tropsch synthesis (FTS). The catalyst was designed to address some drawbacks of conventional supported catalysts, such as low utilization, poor activity, and instability. The experimental investigation involved the manufacturing and characterization of both promoted and unpromoted iron-based catalysts. The performance of the structured iron catalyst was assessed in a fixed-bed reactor under relevant industrial conditions. Notably, the best results were achieved with a syngas ratio typical of the gasification of lignocellulosic biomass, where the catalyst exhibited superior catalytic activity and selectivity toward desired hydrocarbon products, including light olefins and long-chain paraffins. The resulting structured catalyst achieved up to 95% CO conversion in a single pass with 5% selectivity for CH4. The results indicate that the developed structured iron catalyst has considerable potential for efficient and sustainable hydrocarbon production via the Fischer\u2013Tropsch synthesis. The catalyst\u2019s performance, enhanced stability, and selectivity present promising opportunities for its application in large-scale hydrocarbon synthesis processes.</p></article>", "keywords": ["structured catalyst", "Technology", "T", "Fischer\u2013Tropsch synthesis", "biomass to liquids", "syngas", "biofuels"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/en18143846"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Energies", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/en18143846", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/en18143846", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/en18143846"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-07-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/en4060845", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:21:41Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-05-25", "description": "<p>This article reviews and compares assessments of three biodiesel fuels: (1) transesterified lipids, (2) hydrotreated vegetable oils (HVO), and (3) woody biomass-to-liquid (BTL) Fischer-Tropsch diesel and selected feedstock options. The article attempts to rank the environmental performance and costs of fuel and feedstock combinations. Due to inter-study differences in goal and study assumptions, the ranking was mostly qualitative and intra-study results are emphasized. Results indicate that HVO made from wastes or by-products such as tall oil, tallow or used cooking oil outperform transesterified lipids and BTL from woody material, both with respect to environmental life cycle impacts and costs. These feedstock options are, however, of limited availability, and to produce larger volumes of biofuels other raw materials must also be used. BTL from woody biomass seems promising with good environmental performance and the ability not to compete with food production. Production of biofuels from agricultural feedstock sources requires much energy and leads to considerable emissions due to agrochemical inputs. Thus, such biodiesel fuels are ranked lowest in this comparison. Production of feedstock is the most important life cycle stage. Avoiding detrimental land use changes and maintaining good agricultural or forestry management practices are the main challenges to ensure that biofuels can be a sustainable option for the future transport sector.</p>", "keywords": ["Technology", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "biodiesel", "security", "02 engineering and technology", "bioenergy", "7. Clean energy", "12. Responsible consumption", "jel:Q40", "mitigation", "jel:Q", "jel:Q43", "jel:Q42", "11. Sustainability", "jel:Q41", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "jel:Q48", "jel:Q47", "climate", "jel:Q49", "2. Zero hunger", "LCA", "T", "biodiesel; HVO; BTL; biofuels; LCA; bioenergy; forestry; energy; security; climate; mitigation; transport", "forestry", "jel:Q0", "15. Life on land", "jel:Q4", "biofuels", "6. Clean water", "13. 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The analysis is based on breaking down existing liquid biofuel value chains, focusing on the required adaptations needed for clean biofuel production. State-of-the-art and emerging liquid biofuel production options are reviewed. The potential implications caused by the HM load in the biomass feedstock are analyzed along the whole biofuel production chain, which includes pre-processing, conversion and post-processing stages. The fate of the most common HM species present in contaminated biomass is identified and graphically represented for advanced (second generation) biofuel conversion processes. This information synthesis leads to the description of alternative value chains, capable of producing HM-free biofuel. This work goes a step further than existing reviews of experiments and simulations regarding heavy metal-contaminated biomass (HMCB) valorization to biofuels since feasible value chains are described by synthesizing the findings of the several studies examined. By defining the adapted value chains, the \u201croad is paved\u201d toward establishing realistic process chains and determining system boundaries, which actually are essential methodological steps of various critical evaluation and optimization methodologies, such as Life Cycle Assessment, supply chain optimization and techno-economic assessment of the total value chain.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Biofuel upgrading", "\u0391\u03bb\u03c5\u03c3\u03af\u03b4\u03b1 \u03b1\u03be\u03af\u03b1\u03c2", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology", "Fuel", "Liquid biofuels", "\u0392\u03b1\u03c1\u03ad\u03b1 \u03bc\u03ad\u03c4\u03b1\u03bb\u03bb\u03b1", "7. Clean energy", "contaminated biomass feedstock", "\u039c\u03bf\u03bb\u03c5\u03c3\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03b7 \u03b2\u03b9\u03bf\u03bc\u03ac\u03b6\u03b1", "TP315-360", "Heavy metals", "\u03a5\u03b3\u03c1\u03ac \u03b2\u03b9\u03bf\u03ba\u03b1\u03cd\u03c3\u03b9\u03bc\u03b1", "13. 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The MEC configuration adopted a cation exchange membrane to separate the inner anodic chamber and the external cathodic chamber, which were filled with graphite granules. The cathodic chamber performed the CO2 removal through the bioelectromethanogenesis reaction and alkalinity generation while the anodic oxidation of a synthetic fermentate partially sustained the energy demand of the process. Three different nitrogen load rates (73, 365, and 2229 mg N/Ld) were applied to the inner anodic chamber to test the performances of the whole process in terms of COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand) removal, CO2 removal, and nitrogen recovery. By maintaining the organic load rate at 2.55 g COD/Ld and the anodic chamber polarization at +0.2 V vs. SHE (Standard Hydrogen Electrode), the increase of the nitrogen load rate promoted the ammonium migration and recovery, i.e., the percentage of current counterbalanced by the ammonium migration increased from 1% to 100% by increasing the nitrogen load rate by 30-fold. The CO2 removal slightly increased during the three periods, and permitted the removal of 65% of the influent CO2, which corresponded to an average removal of 2.2 g CO2/Ld. During the operation with the higher nitrogen load rate, the MEC energy consumption, which was simultaneously used for the different operations, was lower than the selected benchmark technologies, i.e., 0.47 kW/N\uffc2\uffb7m3 for CO2 removal and 0.88 kW\uffc2\uffb7h/kg COD for COD oxidation were consumed by the MEC while the ammonium nitrogen recovery consumed 2.3 kW\uffc2\uffb7h/kg N.</p>", "keywords": ["Bioelectric Energy Sources", "Nitrogen", "Organic chemistry", "Pilot Projects", "Waste Disposal", " Fluid", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "Article", "Electrolysis", "biogas upgrading", " nitrogen recovery", " microbial electrolysis cell", " bioelectromethanogenesis", " digestate", "biogas upgrading", "QD241-441", "Bioreactors", "Ammonium Compounds", "Anaerobiosis", "Cation Exchange Resins", "Electrodes", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Biological Oxygen Demand Analysis", "Electrochemical Techniques", "microbial electrolysis cell", "6. 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At the same time, soil pollution is widespread all over Europe, where a significant area of land is contaminated and therefore unusable for any purpose. The overall objective of the H2020 Phy2Climate project is to build the bridge between the phytoremediation of contaminated sites with the production of clean drop-in biofuels. Phytoremediation consists of employing plants in soil decontamination and its effectiveness depends on the plants ability to absorb, transfer, stabilize, concentrate and/or degrade contaminants. As the project aims for the production of high-quality drop-in biofuels like marine fuels (ISO 8217), gasoline (EN 228) and diesel (EN 590), a biorefinery concept is employed and the biorefinery processing of biomass harvested from four contaminated pilot sites in different regions of Europe and South-America is based on the Thermo-Catalytic Reforming (TCR\u00ae) technology, which combines an intermediate pyrolysis process with a subsequently catalytic reforming of the pyrolysis productsThe produced biofuels will present no Land Use Change risks, thus, the phytoremediation will decontaminate lands from a vast variety of pollutants and make the restored lands available for agriculture, while improving the overall sustainability, legal framework, and economics of the process.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Thermo-Catalytic Reforming (TCR \u00ae )", "Thermo-Catalytic Reforming (TCR\u00ae)", "sustainable biofuels", "phytoremediation", "15. Life on land", "sustainability", "7. 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The center of the biorefinery is comprised of an advanced intermediate based pyrolysis process called thermo-catalytic reforming to gain intermediate products like gas, bio-oil, an aqueous phase, and biochar. These intermediates are individually refined. In case of the TCR-gas a purification step is implemented before refinement to reduce the concentration of critical gas components like NH3 and H2S to below 50 ppm. The aqueous phase is purified using an electrochemical process while at the same time producing hydrogen. The purified TCR-gas and the hydrogen from the electrochemical purification is used in a Gas-to-Liquid plant with the aim to produce sustainable fuels through a Fischer-Tropsch-synthesis. The so produced liquid hydrocarbons are distilled to produce gasoline (EN 228) and diesel (EN 590). The bio-oil is also refined by distillation to be used as marine fuel (ISO 8217). The produced biochar is not further refined and directly assessed as a substitute for petroleum-based coke in the copper smelting industry.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "biorefinery", "", "11. Sustainability", "polluted soil", "innovative concepts", "Biomass", "thermochemical conversion", "7. Clean energy", "biofuels", "6. Clean water", "12. 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Phytoremediation is based on the use of plants and their associated microorganisms to clean contaminated soils, resulting in a positive impact on the environment and the production of biomass that can be utilized for biofuel production. Combining phytoremediation with advanced thermochemical conversion technologies like thermo-catalytic reforming process (TCR) allows for the production of high-quality biochar, bio-oil comparable to fossil crude oil, and hydrogen-rich syngas. This study presents a full-scale phytoremediation experiment conducted at a former oil storage site using energy crops like Jerusalem artichokes (Helianthus tuberosus), where the biomass was later converted into biofuel and other by-products using lab-scale technology. Significant and promising results were obtained: (i) within two years, the initial total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) contamination level (698 mg/kg) was reduced to a permissible level (146 mg/kg); (ii) the yield of the harvested Jerusalem artichoke biomass reached 18.3 t/ha dry weight; (iii) the thermochemical conversion produced high-quality products, such as a thermally stable oil a higher heating value (HHV) of 33.85 MJ/kg; (iv) the two-year phytoremediation costs for the rejuvenated soil amounted to3.75 EUR/t.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Thermo-catalytic reforming", "S", "Biofuels", "Jerusalem artichoke", "Agriculture", "phytoremediation", "field trials", "thermo-catalytic reforming", "biofuels", "Phytoremediation"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/15/3/601/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14965739"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agronomy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.14965739", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.14965739", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.14965739"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-02-28T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "1942/38692", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:26:17Z", "type": "Journal Article", "title": "Clean Biofuel Production and Phytoremediation Solutions from Contaminated Lands Worldwide", "description": "Closed AccessProceedings of the 30th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, 9-12 May 2022, Online, pp. 170-177", "keywords": ["2. 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Only in the European Union, around 340.000 contaminated sites are inventoried. At the same time, the need to foster the uptake of sustainable biofuels to curb greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector is one of the pillars of the EU\uffe2\uff80\uff99s climate action to achieve the overarching goals set under the European Climate Law and the Renewable Energy Directive. Against this backdrop, nature-based solutions for soil remediation are increasingly being advocated as sustainable options to enhance soil biodiversity while addressing soil contamination in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and, in the EU, the European Green Deal and the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. Among several nature-based soil remediation techniques, phytoremediation consists of the use of plants and their associated microbes to stabilise, degrade, volatilise and extract soil pollutants. Furthermore, the non-food biomass generated as a result of phytoremediation could provide a meaningful low Indirect Land Use Change (iluc) feedstock for the production of advanced biofuels to reduce climate change.</p> <p>This paper addresses the policy and legal background surrounding the uptake of phytoremediation and recovery of output materials focusing on existing roadblocks currently hampering the full-scale adoption of such a complex yet inherently circular value chain. The paper concludes that meaningful steps must yet be taken to properly embed nature-based soil remediation techniques, such as phytoremediation, in the current legal framework and to ensure social ownership of the same to maximise its environmental benefits.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "advanced biofuels", "soil pollution", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "phytoremediation", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "soil strategy", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "6. 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This trend has been spurred by policies in the European Union, United States, Brazil, and other countries favoring the use of biofuels in the transport sector to enhance energy security and reduce carbon emissions, as well as by the desire of governments in developing countries to harness the stimulus that new commercial investments provide to the agricultural sector and to national economies. Despite these potential benefits, a number of concerns have been raised about the local social and environmental impacts of biofuel feedstock expansion. We shed light on this debate through a synthesis of findings from case studies in six biofuel producer countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and a seventh paper exploring the implications of the land-use changes observed in these case studies for the climate mitigation potential of biofuels. We also explore the implications for governing the environmental impacts of biofuel feedstock production, protecting the rights of customary land users, and enabling smallholder-inclusive business models. Our analysis suggests that better governance of the sector's impacts is not the exclusive preserve of unitary sets of actors, but instead requires concerted and coordinated efforts by governments of producer and consumer countries, investors, civil society, and the financial sector to better capture the sector's potential while minimizing its social and environmental costs.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "social impacts", "Ecology", "QH301-705.5", "1. No poverty", "developing countries", "environmental impacts", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "environmental impact", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "biofuels", "12. Responsible consumption", "13. Climate action", "11. 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This is especially true in aviation, maritime, and heavy-duty sectors with limited short-term alternatives. Their use by conventional transport fleets requires few changes to the existing infrastructure and engines, and thus their integration can be smooth and relatively rapid. Provision of feedstock should comply with sustainability principles for (i) producing additional biomass without distorting food and feed markets and (ii) addressing challenges for ecosystem services, including biodiversity, and soil quality. This paper performs a meta-analysis of current research for low indirect land use change (ILUC) risk biomass crops for sustainable biofuels that benefited either from improved agricultural practices or from cultivation in unused, abandoned, or severely degraded land. Two categories of biomass crops are considered here: oil and lignocellulosic. The findings confirm that there are significant opportunities to cultivate these crops in European agro-ecological zones with sustainable agronomic practices both in farming land and in land with natural constraints (unused, abandoned, and degraded land). These could produce additional low environmental impact feedstocks for biofuels and deliver economic benefits to farmers.</p></article>", "keywords": ["advanced biofuels", "Technology", "Chemistry", " Multidisciplinary", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "630", "CROP-ROTATION", "CARBON", "Engineering", "11. Sustainability", "land use change; low ILUC; oil crops; lignocellulosic crops; advanced biofuels; sustainability; marginal land; degraded land", "ALTERNATIVE FUELS", "Biology (General)", "2. Zero hunger", "Multidisciplinary", "marginal land", "T", "Physics", "sustainability", "Engineering (General). 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At the same time, soil pollution is widespread all over Europe, where a significant area of land is contaminated and therefore unusable for any purpose. The overall objective of the H2020 Phy2Climate project is to build the bridge between the phytoremediation of contaminated sites with the production of clean drop-in biofuels. Phytoremediation consists of employing plants in soil decontamination and its effectiveness depends on the plants ability to absorb, transfer, stabilize, concentrate and/or degrade contaminants. As the project aims for the production of high-quality drop-in biofuels like marine fuels (ISO 8217), gasoline (EN 228) and diesel (EN 590), a biorefinery concept is employed and the biorefinery processing of biomass harvested from four contaminated pilot sites in different regions of Europe and South-America is based on the Thermo-Catalytic Reforming (TCR\u00ae) technology, which combines an intermediate pyrolysis process with a subsequently catalytic reforming of the pyrolysis productsThe produced biofuels will present no Land Use Change risks, thus, the phytoremediation will decontaminate lands from a vast variety of pollutants and make the restored lands available for agriculture, while improving the overall sustainability, legal framework, and economics of the process.", "keywords": ["Thermo-Catalytic Reforming (TCR \u00ae )", "sustainable biofuels", "phytoremediation", "15. Life on land", "sustainability", "7. Clean energy", "6. Clean water", "biofuels", "12. 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Furthermore, phytoremediation's by-products may be used to develop advanced, low indirect land use change biofuels thus contributing to the EU's climate change mitigation objectives.The value chain entailed in the deployment of phytoremediation techniques and recovery of phytoremediation's output materials for biofuels production faces an array of legal and policy roadblocks in the European Union. Importantly, such barriers relate both to material legal obstacles, policy fragmentation and lack of a holistic approach towards complex processes. 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