Title:
Can Biomass Production on Urban Brownfields be a Viable Concept?
Author(s):
Ponitka, J., Kretzschmar, J., Thrän, D.
Document(s):
Paper
Abstract:
Growing conflicts in land use, food production and nature conservation in terms of increasing energy crop production arise. Therefore it is essential to develop alternative land resources, such as urban brownfields, considered as every previously used and now unused area. The main focus is the investigation of options to produce biomass on urban brownfields for energy recovery, assuming that there is no foreseeable demand for a certain unused, idle site or its reuse would be unprofitable. In particular this approach contributes to provide bioenergy sources in a local context close to the consumer, to implement a sustainable development with improvement of urban sites and it reduces our dependency on fossil fuels. It has been demonstrated with this research project that biomass production for energy recovery on brownfields has a reasonable potential for the – at least temporary – use of brownfields in cities and urban regions, especially if there have been prepared regional or municipal energy supply concepts. Even temporary biomass production will contribute to an initial use, as sites will be optically upgraded and economically improved and site management costs will be partly reduced. Demonstration projects will be a good opportunity to verify the potential, along with public relations to communicate the experiences.
Keywords:
biomass, crop, cultivation, strategies, strategy, urban area
Topic:
Biomass resources
Subtopic:
Biomass resources from agricultural land
Event:
18th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
OC4.4
Pages:
135 - 138
ISBN-13:
978-88-89407-56-1
ISBN-10:
88-89407-56-5
Paper DOI:
10.5071/18thEUBCE2010-OC4.4
Price:
FREE
