Title:
Use of Umbilical System for the Improvement of Biogas Plant Logistics Sustainability
Author(s):
Busato, P., Pavlou, D., Orfanou, A., Bochtis, D., Berruto, R.
Document(s):
Paper
Abstract:
Due to the continuous usage of soil organic matter by the plants and the execution of tillage operations additional organic matter has to be supplied to the soil. Biogas plants residues can effectively provide this additional organic matter. Different systems such as the umbilical and the tanker are used for the application of liquid organic fertiliser in the fields. The effect of the field size on the effectiveness of these two selected transport/application systems has been investigated analysed. A specialised software tool has been developed for this comparison. The tool uses as input the field characteristics, the machinery parameters, the task time elements, cost parameters, and operational parameters, and based on a detailed simulation of the executed operations provides the time and cost outputs for each followed system. Comparing the umbilical system with the tanker system, the results was shown that for increased field area size the maximum fixe cost that can be assigned to the umbilical system establishment in order to remain more economical compared to the tanker system is also increased. As far as it regards the comparison of the operational time, it was shown that for short distances of the biogas plant (less than 1 km) and relatively small field areas (up to approximately 2 ha), the tanker system is less time consuming than the umbilical system.
Keywords:
agricultural biogas plants, digestate, software, distribution
Topic:
Biomass Resources
Subtopic:
Biomass feedstock, residues and by-products
Event:
20th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
1BV.1.47
Pages:
353 - 356
ISBN:
978-88-89407-54-7
Paper DOI:
10.5071/20thEUBCE2012-1BV.1.47
Price:
FREE
