Utilization of substrates from

landscape conservation

Egmond aan Zee, Oct. 1st 2014

Sven Schicketanz

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Overview

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3. Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5. Best-Practice in Germany

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Relevance of biomass from landscape conservation

Increasing demand for biomass in the energy sector

EU Biomass Supply-demand for power and heat

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3.  Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5.  Best-Practice in Germany

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Relevance of biomass from landscape conservation

conflicts coherent with the use of energy crops Ø  carbon dioxide reduction? (in the context of bioenergy expansion)

Ø  environmental impacts

Ø  increasing competition in the usage of farmland

Challenges in biogas production

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3.  Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5.  Best-Practice in Germany

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Relevance of biomass from landscape conservation

Chances for biogas production

Utilization of substrates from landscape conservation addresses and can reduce all 3 conflicts

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3.  Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5.  Best-Practice in Germany

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Biomass from landscape conservation

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3.  Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5.  Best-Practice in Germany

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Biomass from landscape conservation

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3.  Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5.  Best-Practice in Germany

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Biomass from landscape conservation

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3.  Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5.  Best-Practice in Germany

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Biomass from landscape conservation

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3.  Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5.  Best-Practice in Germany

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biogas potential from landscape conservation

nature conservation

biogas production

economic efficiency

utilization of biomass

from landscape conservation

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3. Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5.  Best-Practice in Germany

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Potential of biomass from landscape conservation

Overview

Biomass potential

+  respectable quantities

+  low competition in the usage

+  very good carbon footprint

+  can generate synergies with nature conservation

-  decentralized occurrence

-  lower methane content

-  higher costs

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3. Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5.  Best-Practice in Germany

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Utilization - harvesting and gas production

Challenges

1. techniques & logistics

2. fermentation

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3.  Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5.  Best-Practice in Germany

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Utilization - harvesting and gas production

1. techniques & logistics

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3.  Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5.  Best-Practice in Germany

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Utilization - harvesting and gas production

1. techniques & logistics

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3.  Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5.  Best-Practice in Germany

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Utilization - harvesting and gas production

1. techniques & logistics – mowing & collecting

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3.  Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5.  Best-Practice in Germany

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Utilization - harvesting and gas production

1. techniques & logistics

What you have

q  many different players with small amounts of biomass

q  location of biomass decentral

What you need

q  an initiator and a concept to fit local presets

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3.  Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5.  Best-Practice in Germany

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Utilization - harvesting and gas production

2. Fermentation

wet fermentation

functional requirements

q  Extruder

q  Pumps and tube profiles

dry fermentation

q  none

Pretreatment requirements

q  Hydrolysis

q  mechanical preparation

§  impact reactor

§  ultrasonic

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3.  Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5.  Best-Practice in Germany

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Best-Practice in Germany

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3.  Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5. Best-Practice in Germany

Current state of biogas plants

q Approx. 100 biogas plants in Germany (~1,2%)

q Usage between a share of 1-100% input material

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Best-Practice in Germany

DBFZ gGMBH, 2013

Current usage of biomass from landscape conservation 1. Relevance:

Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3.  Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5. Best-Practice in Germany

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Best-Practice in Germany

www.mulle.lpv.de

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3.  Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5. Best-Practice in Germany

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Best-Practice in Germany

www.mulle.lpv.de

1. Relevance: Initial situation in Germany

2. What are substrates from landscape conservation?

3.  Biogas potential

4. Utilization – harvesting and gas production

5. Best-Practice in Germany

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Conclusion

Utilization of biomass from landscape conservation for biogas production is…

..a chance for the biogas sector and nature conservation

..possible with state-of-the-art technology

but it needs…

..a strong initiator and individual concepts

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►  Energy production from substrates from landscape conservation

•  Best Practice Study

•  requirement and potential analysis

•  concept development

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