Task 37: Energy from Biogas
Task 37: Energy from Biogas

Energy crops and biogas – Pathways to success?

22 Sep, 2005
Location: Hoog Brabant Conference Center, 3511 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands
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The workshop was organised as a joint session between the IEA Bioenergy Task 37 working group «Energy from Biogas and Landfill Gas» and the EU-funded 6th Framework project «Renewable Energy from Crops and Agrowastes» (CROPGEN – University of Southampton, UK)

 

Proceedings

Topic 1: Identification and development of crops for energy production

 

Plant breeding potential to improve energy crops for the use in biogas plants (PDF 4800 KB)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Friedt
Justus Liebling University, Giessen
Germany

 

Swichtgrass and Miscanthus as Energy Crops – Agricultural alspects (PDF 2100 KB)
Dr. Wolter Elbersen
WUR
The Netherlands

 

Biodiversity impacts of enhanced energy crop production in
EU framland areas (PDF 1270 KB)
Dr. Berien Elbersen
WUR
The Netherlands

 

Topic 2: Biomass processing concepts, storages, pre- and post treatment, technologies and impacts

 

Results and bottle necks of energy crop digestion plants – required process technology innovations (PDF 484 KB)
Prof. Dr. Peter Weiland,
Federal Agricultural Research Center
Germany

 

Preliminary results of biomass storing and pre-treatment (PDF 531 KB)
Prof. Dr. Jukka Rintala
Jyväskylä University
Finland

 

Preliminary results from the agrioptigas project (PDF 6800 KB)
Dr. Ake Nordberg
JTI
Sweden

 

Experience with co-digestion of energy crops (PDF 3800 KB)
Ir. Hendrik Jan van Dooren
WUR
The Netherlands

 

Topic 3: Overall energy balance of crop to biogas systems

 

Energy balances of crop to biogas systems in relation to other biotransformations (PDF 3500 KB)
Dr. Andre Faaij,
Copernicus Inst. for Sustainable Development
The Netherlands

 

Energy analysis and environmental analysis of biogas systems (PDF 118 KB)
Dr. Pal Börjesson,
Departement of Technology and Society, Lund University
Sweden

 

Energetic use of biomass – competing or complementing technologies? (PDF 2300 KB)
Samuel Stucki
Paul Scherrer Institut
Switzerland

 

Topic 4: Potential of integrated biogas systems

 

Possibilities of integrating bioenergy (biogas) generation into other biomass based production systems (PDF 2300 KB)
Prof. Dr. Johan Sanders
WUR
The Netherlands

 

Biocascading – towards efficient biomass chains (PDF 186 KB)
Prof. Dr. Paul Struik
WUR
The Netherlands

 

Predicted energy crop potentials for biogas –
worldwide, regions – EU 25 (Word 806 KB)
Jens Bo Holm-Nielsen
Aalborg University
Denmark