Front Cover; Advances in Renewable Energies and Power Technologies: Volume 2: Biomass, Fuel Cells, Geothermal Energies, and Smart Grids; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgement; Chapter 1: Biomass: Some Basics and Biogas; 1.1. Introduction; 1.1.1. World Outlook and Projection; 1.2. Biomass Classification; 1.3. Technological Routes for Energy Conversion of Biomass; 1.3.1. Processes of Biomass Energy Conversion; 1.4. Anaerobic Digestion Process; 1.4.1. Operational Conditions to Anaerobic Digestion Process; 1.5. Biogas Produced by Anaerobic Digestion Based Systems. 1.5.1. Biogas: Characteristics1.6. Biogas From Digesters; 1.6.1. Current Anaerobic Digestion Technologies Based on Digesters; 1.6.2. Digesters; 1.6.2.1. Completely Mixed Digesters; 1.6.2.2. Plug Flow Digesters; 1.6.2.3. Covered Lagoon Digesters; 1.6.2.4. Chinese Fixed Dome; 1.6.2.5. Indian Floating Dome; 1.6.3. Calculation of Biogas Power From Anaerobic Digester System; 1.7. Landfill Gas Modeling; 1.7.1. Parameters to Landfill Models; 1.7.2. Main LFG Models; 1.7.2.1. GASFILL; 1.7.2.2. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Model; 1.7.2.3. Solid Waste Association of North America. 1.7.2.4. European Pollutant Emission Register1.7.2.5. Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO); 1.7.2.6. Afvalzorg; 1.7.2.7. LandGEM; 1.7.2.8. Mexico; 1.7.2.9. LFGGEN; 1.7.2.10. Numerical Models; 1.7.2.11. Other Models; 1.7.3. Software Used to Predict LFG and Methane Potential; 1.7.3.1. CALMIM; 1.7.3.2. GasSim; 1.7.4. Comparison Between Models; 1.8. Power Generation Based on Biomass; 1.8.1. Electricity Generation From Biomass: Thermal Cycles; 1.8.1.1. Gas Turbines Technologies; 1.8.1.2. Microturbine Technologies; 1.8.1.3. Steam Turbine Technologies. 1.8.1.4. Combined Cycle Technologies1.9. Final Considerations; References; Chapter 2: Simulation Models of Biomass Thermochemical Conversion Processes, Gasification and Pyrolysis, for the Predicti ... ; 2.1. Gasification Process; 2.2. Pyrolysis Process; 2.3. Gasification/Pyrolysis Reactors; 2.4. Simulation Models; 2.4.1. Thermodynamic Equilibrium Models; 2.4.2. Kinetic Models; 2.4.3. Models in Aspen Plus; 2.4.4. Models in ChemCAD; 2.5. Results of the Simulation of the Gasification/Pyrolysis; 2.5.1. CHEM_Gas Model; 2.5.2. MAT_Gas Model; 2.5.3. CHEM_Pyro Model. 2.5.4. Results of CHEM_Gas Simulations2.5.4.1. Validation of the Model CHEM_Gas Through the Experimentations of Barrio and Fossum; 2.5.4.2. Validation of the Model CHEM_Gas Through the Experimentations of Jayah et al.; 2.5.4.3. Validation of the Model CHEM_Gas Through the Experimentations of Skoulou et al.; 2.5.5. Results of MAT_Gas Simulations; 2.5.5.1. Comparison Among MAT_Gas, CHEM_Gas and Experimental Data of Barrio and Fossum; 2.5.5.2. Comparison among MAT_Gas, CHEM_Gas and experimental data of Jayah et al.

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