A theoretical and experimental study of the energy harvest efficiency of an energy crop

✍ Scribed by K. Tennakone; S. Wickramanayake; S. Punchihewa; K.L. Weerasena

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 215 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0038-092X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0038-092x(87)80014-2

✦ Synopsis

It is shown that growth kinetics of a plant community determine the maximum rate at which biomass can be extracted continously while maintaining a quasistatic equilibrium. The floating hydrophyte Lemna major is studied as a model system. It is shown that the measurements on this system are in agreement with the theoretical model and that the optimum energy harvest efficiency of Lemna major is -4%.