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Biogas production from crop residues on a farm-scale level: Scale, choice of substrate and utilisation rate most important parameters for financial feasibility

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Anaerobic digestion would enable the energy potential of agricultural crop residues such as ley crops, sugar beet tops and straw to be harnessed in Sweden. These residues are so spread out that full utilisation of the potential by centralised slurry-based technology is difficult, its appearing that simple but effective high-solids reactor systems have a better chance of being economically viable on a farm-scale level (30-300 kW). In the present study, the financial prospects of single-stage fed-batch high-solids digestion on three different scales, 51, 67 and 201 kW, were calculated, on the basis of experimental results and observations on a laboratory- and pilot-scale. The biogas was disposed as heat, combined heat and power or as vehicle fuel. The results indicate the importance of choosing substrates with a high methane yield and a high nitrogen content, and the necessity of fully utilising both the capacity of the equipment installed and the energy carriers produced.

Publiceringsår

2005

Språk

Engelska

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Ämne

  • Industrial Biotechnology

Nyckelord

  • organic farming
  • combined heat and power
  • biogas upgrading
  • economy
  • sugar beet tops
  • crop residues
  • High-solids anaerobic digestion
  • farm-scale

Status

Published