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Energy Systems Design in Agriculture

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (13 July 2023) | Viewed by 3482

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Simeon Olatayo Jekayinfa

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Department of Agricultural Engineering, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso 210214, Nigeria
Interests: farm power and machinery energy in agriculture; crop processing and storage energy systems design

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Affordable and clean energy together with sustainability in agriculture and related primary industries is crucial for achieving the relevant SDGs in any country. Increasing paucity and resulting soaring fossil fuel prices combined with the need to significantly abate greenhouse gas emissions is resulting in research into energy systems design in agriculture becoming very essential and desirable. Included in this are the improvement of energy efficient farming and the increased use of renewable energy in different forms. The development of renewable energy within the general framework of sustainable development aims at reducing energy consumption, increasing the security of supply, environmental protection, and ensuring environmentally friendly and sustainable energy technology development. Almost all agricultural operations and processes can be viewed as thermodynamic systems involving transformations of energy from one form to another, fertilizer to feed grains, feed grains to dairy products, and livestock residues to fertilizers. These agricultural energy transformations have been analytically studied in different locations around the world.

This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to value addition to agriculture in the design of sustainable energy systems using agricultural products and byproducts as feedstocks. The results of research into energy analysis in various agricultural operations and processes will also be presented.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Access, efficiency, and reliability of energy in agricultural production processes
  • Design for renewable energy systems
  • Bioenergy for heat and electricity
  • Manufacturing of bioproducts from energetic conversion of biomass
  • Biofuels for transportation including cellulosic ethanol, biodiesel, and renewable hydrocarbon
  • Wind, solar, and wind/solar hybrid energy for agricultural applications
  • Energy systems analysis for measuring the impact of technologies from energy- and materials-usage standpoint.
  • Novel applications of agriculture-derived renewable energy
  • Energetic life cycle assessment in agriculture
  • Energy audit in agricultural operations and processes

Prof. Dr. Simeon Olatayo Jekayinfa
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • renewable energy technologies
  • biomass technology
  • energy efficiency
  • energetic life cycle assessment
  • sustainable energy
  • energy for agricultural processes
  • energy from agriculture
  • energy systems designs in agriculture
  • solar energy
  • wind energy
  • biodiesel
  • biogas
  • pyrolysis products from agricultural residues
  • briquettes and pellets
  • transesterification
  • heterogeneous catalysts from agricultural residues
  • anaerobic digestion

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Detection of Non-Technical Losses in Irrigant Consumers through Artificial Intelligence: A Pilot Study
by Vanessa Gindri Vieira, Daniel Pinheiro Bernardon, Vinícius André Uberti, Rodrigo Marques de Figueiredo, Lucas Melo de Chiara and Juliano Andrade Silva
Energies 2023, 16(19), 6832; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16196832 - 26 Sep 2023
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Non-technical losses (NTLs) verified in the power distribution grids cause great financial losses to power utilities. In rural distribution grids, fraudulent consumers contribute to technical problems. The Southern region in Brazil contains more than 70% of the total rice production and power irrigation [...] Read more.
Non-technical losses (NTLs) verified in the power distribution grids cause great financial losses to power utilities. In rural distribution grids, fraudulent consumers contribute to technical problems. The Southern region in Brazil contains more than 70% of the total rice production and power irrigation systems. These systems operate seasonally in distribution grids with high NTL conditions. This work aimed to present an artificial intelligence-based system to help power distribution companies detect potential consumers causing NTLs. This minimizes the challenge of maintaining compliance with current regulations and ensuring the quality of services and products. In the proposed methodology, historical energy consumption information, meteorological data, satellite images, and data from energy suppliers are processed by artificial intelligence, indicating the suspicious consumer units of NTL. This work presents every step developed in the proposed methodology and the tool application in a pilot area. We detected a high number of consumers responsible for NTLs, with an accuracy of 63% and an average reduction of 78% in the search area. These results corroborated the effectiveness of the tool and instigated the research team to expand the application to other rice production areas. Full article
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Investigation of the Effects of Torrefaction Temperature and Residence Time on the Fuel Quality of Corncobs in a Fixed-Bed Reactor
by Joseph I. Orisaleye, Simeon O. Jekayinfa, Ralf Pecenka, Adebayo A. Ogundare, Michael O. Akinseloyin and Opeyemi L. Fadipe
Energies 2022, 15(14), 5284; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15145284 - 21 Jul 2022
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Biomass from agriculture is a promising alternative fuel due to its carbon-neutral feature. However, raw biomass does not have properties required for its direct utilization for energy generation. Torrefaction is considered as a pretreatment method to improve the properties of biomass for energy [...] Read more.
Biomass from agriculture is a promising alternative fuel due to its carbon-neutral feature. However, raw biomass does not have properties required for its direct utilization for energy generation. Torrefaction is considered as a pretreatment method to improve the properties of biomass for energy applications. This study was aimed at investigating the effects of torrefaction temperature and residence time on some physical and chemical properties of torrefied corncobs. Therefore, a fixed-bed torrefaction reactor was developed and used in the torrefaction of corncobs. The torrefaction process parameters investigated were the torrefaction temperature (200, 240, and 280 °C) and the residence time (30, 60, and 90 min). The effects of these parameters on the mass loss, grindability, chemical composition, and calorific value of biomass were investigated. It was shown that the mass loss increased with increasing torrefaction temperature and residence time. The grinding throughput of the biomass was improved by increasing both the torrefaction temperature and the residence time. Torrefaction at higher temperatures and longer residence times had greater effects on the reduction in particle size of the milled corncobs. The calorific value was highest at a torrefaction temperature of 280 °C and a residence time of 90 min. The energy yield for all treatments ranged between 92.8 and 99.2%. The results obtained in this study could be useful in the operation and design of torrefaction reactors. They also provided insight into parameters to be investigated for optimization of the torrefaction reactor. Full article
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