Converting Waste Agricultural Biomass into a Resource - UNEP

4. The Compendium
The Project Website
The Compendium of Waste Biomass Conversion Technologies is part of
the website developed for the Project entitled “Using Agricultural Biomass
Waste for Energy and Materials, Resource Conservation and GHG
Reduction”. It can be accessed in the URL
http://cshd.dap.edu.ph/unep_biomass/. The site shows three major project
outputs:
I. Global Assessment on Cellulosic Waste Biomass
II. Compendium of Waste Biomass Conversion Technologies
III. Other Documents
Under the Compendium are two links leading to conversion technologies,
first for energy, and second for materials 8 . The point of reference for users
is the crop type and the agricultural waste. From here the user can see the
different conversion processes and the technologies under these
processes. The technology then provides a link to the PDF files of the
technology datasheet and technology assessment. It is so arranged so
that end users facing solid waste management issues can immediately
access information on technologies that utilize the kind of waste that they
have or generate. And even before the users click on the link to the
datasheet, they can already see what sort of product the conversion
process generates.
Completed with the users’ needs in mind, the Compendium features the
information materials presented below.
A. Technology Data Sheets
• Crop – agricultural crop that generates the biomass waste
• Residue –waste biomass resulting from harvesting the primary crop, in
the technology datasheet, it refers to the main raw material for
conversion
• Auxiliary Materials- materials, which may or may not be biomass
waste, added to the main raw material for processing
• Process- the biomass conversion procedure, such as combustion,
gasification, densification, among others
• Equipment- machine/s used in the conversion process
• Main Products- result of waste biomass conversion, for energy, refers
to fuel, heat or electricity, and for materials, whatever product resulting
to the conversion process
• By Products- value added products to main product
8 Website interface are placed in the annexes.
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