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- Gunnarsson, Carina, et al.
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Fresh and ensiled crops - A new way to organize year-round substrate supply for a biogasplant : Report from a project within the collaborative research program Renewable transportationfuels and systems
- 2017
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- For crop-based biogas plants, the cost for buying the crops is a predominant production cost andefficient systems for production, harvesting, transportation and storage are therefore of major importance.Furthermore, there is a discussion going on about competition on land between food andenergy production. EU has decided to strongly limit the production of transportation fuel based oncrops grown on arable land. For crop-based biogas production it is therefore very interesting to examineways to reduce substrate costs for crops as well as to find alternative crops that are not competingwith food production.This project was carried out as a case study for two crop based biogas plants in Jordberga andÖrebro, both of them owned by Gasum AB, former Swedish Biogas International (SBI). The overallaim of the project was to reduce substrate costs by at least 10%, by organizing the supply ofcrops in a new way, combining fresh and ensiled crops. The underlying assumption was that substratecosts could be reduced by feeding fresh crops into the biogas digester during the harvest periodand thereby reduce costs for storage and avoid losses of dry matter during storage.The goal of this project was to improve cost calculations and develop an optimization model forsubstrate supply to analyze how different fresh and ensiled substrates should be best combined tominimize substrate costs during various times of the year. In the previous f3 financed project ”Optimizedlogistics for biogas production” a model based on linear programming was developed for optimizationand strategic planning of the logistics for biogas plants. In the present project, the modelwas further developed to optimize the supply for the year divided into different periods, instead ofon annual basis as in the previous project.[...]
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