Title:
Validation of Real Productive Efficiency of Five Full-Scale Biogas Plants
Author(s):
Labartino, N., Fabbri, C., Piccinini, S.
Document(s):
Paper
Poster
Abstract:
CRPA has identified, in Emilia Romagna Region, five agricultural biogas plants, to monitor the main parameters related to energy efficiency, operational reliability and have a realistic picture of the biogas yields. This work was part of the SEBE Project, cofinanced by Central Europe Programme. The choice of plants, made by five different firms, was made on the basis of the type of biomasses fed, the size and the technology adopted. Four plants had an installed electrical power of less than 1 MW (size that allowed access to the allinclusive feedin tariff of 280 €/MWhe injected into the grid) and one with an installed power of more than 1 MW (tariff system of green certificates). Substrates processed into the biogas plants were characterized, process parameters were detected, were characterized the digestate produced and monitored the specific production parameters such as the volumetric organic load, the hydraulic retention time, the electric energy produced and consumed in, the characteristics of the biogas, the biogas per m3 of reactor, the biogas and methane yield per kg of organic substance introduced, the electrical yield per kg of organic matter introduced. Anaerobic digestion was confirmed as an energy conversion technology very versatile and it can use biomasses that other technologies can not used, such as vegetable and animal organic biomasses, raw products, with a total solids content with very different content of TS.
Keywords:
anaerobic digestion, biogas, methane, digestate, green certificates, agricultural biogas plant
Topic:
Biomass Conversion Technologies for Heating, Cooling and Electricity
Subtopic:
Anaerobic digestion for biogas production
Event:
22nd European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
2CV.1.11
Pages:
798 - 802
ISBN:
978-88-89407-52-3
Paper DOI:
10.5071/22ndEUBCE2014-2CV.1.11
Price:
FREE
