Waste management agricultural materials

For the energetic use of biomass a wide range of different resources is available in principle e.g. forest wood, straw, cereal, liquid manure). They derive from the agricultural and silvicultural primary production respectively from the industries that follow the primary production as well as from waste management i.e. when organic materials leave the production process). ... 

Scale is one of the uniquely challenging and exciting aspects of working in India it is particularly important for this project. Waste management solutions typically require that the material not be moved around extensively, else the cost of transport rapidly overtakes the value of any ultimate application. This certainly holds for agricultural residue it is bulky, heavy and subject to rot and decay. Also, we had witnessed directly that some large scale solutions had fallen foul of cor-mption, and we wished to avoid that if we could. 

Rengaraj, S., B. Arahindoo, and V. Murugesan (1997). Recovery of useful material from agricultural wastes. Proc. 199713th Int. Conf. Solid Waste TechnoL Manage., Part 2, Nov. 16-19, 2, 8. Widener Univ. School of England, Chester, PA. 

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