FP6 - 030348 AGROBIOGAS - An integrated approach for biogas production with agricultural waste

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Type of Project	Integrated Project
Contract No	FP6 - 030348
Total Cost	2.891 KEuro
EC Contribution	2.891 KEuro
Start Date	1-6-2006
Duration	36 Months

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Abstract

Annually around 700 million tons of agricultural wastes are produced within the EU which represents a high load for farmers that are obligated to get rid of. So far, most of the time manure and crop residues have been dealt with using the cheapest treatments although these are not the most adequate ones. Upgrading to biogas (AD) by means of anaerobic digestion (AD) represents an alternative treatment with a high potential as it not only prevents pollution, but also allows for energy and nutrient recovery.

There are still many challenges to be solved in order to make this technology effective as a treatment for agricultural waste and become widely accessible to European farmers.

The uptake of AD is still scattered in the EU and farmers, depending on their location, have different opportunities to apply this technology. It is necessary to clarify what are the best conditions, adapted to local situations to treat the targeted residues and make this information accessible to farmers though their Representative Organisations.

The possibility of co-digestion opens a door plenty of potential to farmers who could be able to treat their own waste together with other organic substrates. By these means, farmers will treat their own residues properly and at the same time, they could make a profit by treating and managing organic waste from other sources (waste disposal and management fees) and by selling and/or using its outputs: heat and electrical power together with a stabilised biofertiliser.

The aim of the proposal is to gather and gain knowledge about financial, legal and technical requirements to develop feasible agricultural AD treatments for different local conditions to further transfer it toSMEs. This will strengthen the competitiveness of AD treatment of agriculture waste compared to other treatments and will ensure the compliance with the European and national environmental legislation.

Objectives

In order to enhance the actual European development of decentralised anaerobic digestion (AD) the project has the following objectives.

• To increase the efficiency of AD with agricultural waste in co-digestion with other organic residues by developing:
• To gather the scattered information about biogas local projects and make it accessible to farmers and farmers associations, ensuring a successful performance of current and future AD plants.
• To reduce the uncontrolled disposal of AD sludge by the development of recommendations for the use of it as bio-fertiliser (the bio-fertiliser certification system will be accomplished by the end of month 8)
• To train the IAGs in utilisation of the Helpdesk components, the co-fermentation Substrate database and in applying the bio-fertiliser recommendations.
• To disseminate the generated.

Coordinator

Dansk Landbrugsrådgivning Landscentret, Denmark

Associations and Common Interest Groups

• EUBIA, Europe Fachverband Biogas e.V- German Biogas Association (GBA), Germany
• Asociacion Agraria Jovenes Agricultores (ASAJA), Spain
• Slovenska Asociacia pre biomasu (SK-BIOM), Slovak Republic
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sonnenenergie e.V.(DGS), Germany
• Coordinadora de Organizaciones de agricultures y ganaderos (COAG), Spain
• Panhellenic Confederation of Unions of Agricultural Cooperatives (PAS), Greece Anneberg Gård (AG), Sweden
• Hagaviks Gård AB (HG), Sweden
• Azienda Agricola Testa Lara (AAT), Italy
• Polnohospodarske druzstvo Agricultural Cooperative (PD Kapusany), Slovak Republic
• Biomasse Energie GmbH (BME), Germany
• Elbe Bioenergie GbR (ELBE), Germany
• Reliable Environmental Solutions (RES), Italy
• Santiago Apóstol SCA (SA), Spain
• Bioazul S.L. (BIOAZUL), Spain
• EARL des Brimbelles (EARL) France

RTD Performers

• Verein zur Förderung des Technologietransfers an der Hochschule Bremerhaven e.V. Umweltinstitut (TTZ), Germany
• Syddansk Universitet (SDU), Denmark
• Universitetet som utbildar och forskar för livet (SLU), Sweden
• Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU), Austria
• Centre Wallon de Recherches Agronomiques (CRA-W), Belgium
• Universitat def Barcelona (UB), Spain:

Contacts

Contact

• Secretary General / EUBIA - European Biomass Industry Association BELGIUM