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October 27, 2017
Research Spotlight - Converting Peat into Power
Ali Elkamel, William Anderson, Mohamed Elsholkami, Matthew Warren, Chu Huang, Sheryl Peters, Zhengkai Tu
Each year, a noxious haze blankets much of Indonesia. It’s the result of burning peatlands — the boggy land that covers more than ten per cent of the country. Farmers here have traditionally used slash-and-burn techniques to prepare land for planting, but the level of burning has increased dramatically as large areas are converted to industrial-scale palm oil plantations.
WISE researchers hate to see a valuable resource go up in smoke. So they’ve proposed a better idea: gasification.…
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