Energy use of urban plant waste
One of the measures to create low-carbon cities in response to the worsening global warming is to utilize pruned branches and mown grass, etc. (urban plant waste) generated from parks, green spaces, street trees, etc. as an energy source.
Utilizing urban plant waste as energy is also expected from the perspective of securing independent energy in case of disaster.
For this reason, Landscape & Ecology Division conducted research aimed at establishing and disseminating technologies for using urban plant waste for energy.
（Related Research Results, etc.）
The promotion of the use of locally produced and consumed renewable energy in cities ～Research on technology of making energy locally from pruning and mowing waste～2013, Naoyuki Sone, Yutaka Yamagishi, Masao Kurihara, Civil Engineering Journal, Vol.55, No.1, pp.12-15
Research on the application of the local production for local consumption type renewable energy in urban areas
2013, Yutaka Yamagishi, Naoyuki Sone, Masao Kurihara, 2013 Annual Report of NILIM, No.12, p.109
2014, Naoyuki Sone, Civil Engineering Journal, Vol.56, No.1, pp.46-47
Using the energy of plant waste from cities
2014, Yutaka Yamagishi, Naoyuki Sone, Masao Kurihara, 2014 Annual Report of NILIM, No.13, p.102
2014, Naoyuki Sone, Yutaka Yamagishi, Masao Kurihara, et al., Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture, Vol.77, No.5, pp.693-696
Technical Note on the Energy application methods for Plant Waste derived from urban area
2015, Masao Kurihara, Yutaka Yamagishi, Naoyuki Sone, TECHNICAL NOTE of National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, No.845, p.415
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