Alternative power engineering new resources vegetation materials

Raw material used for production of second generation biofuel is received not only from wood processing oddments, but also from grass, such as Miscanthus sinensis Anderss., which is very useful in perspective. The research resulted in the fact that the yield of Miscanthus sinensis Anderss. within five years in the experiment without any fertilizer was 7.0 t/hectare of solid stuff on the average (from 5.0 to 11.2 t/hectare)), and in case of fertilizer introduction it was 12.1 t/hectare (from 5.3 to 19.4 t/hectare) per year. Miscanthus sinensis Anderss. is ecologically effective field culture and within five-years of this plant’s presence in the agroecosystem the content of a humus in the soil significantly increased. On the average, during 5 years of research energy efficiency of cultivation of Miscanthus sinensis Anderss. in gray forest soils (a ratio of the energy contained in elevated biomass with the spent technical energy on cultivation and harvesting) was 11 in case without fertilizers, which is rather high, and about 12 in case of mineral fertilizers introduction. The experimental data show a high agronomic, energy, and ecological efficiency of Miscanthus sinensis Anderss. cultivation on gray forest soils of south near Moscow region, they also show that some further detailed research of the kind should be made in other regions in Russia.