The possible contribution of agricultural crop residues to renewable energy targets in Europe: A spatially explicit study

Monforti, F.; Katalin, Bodis; Scarlat, Nicolae; Dallemand, J.F.

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2012.11.060

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“…This type of planning is driven by several factors, like technology, economy, environment and social conjuncture; such factors that have direct impact on energy issues. However, for any type of planning that is aimed, it is important to have knowledge of the scale to work on, once this factor will be crucial in the effectiveness of a local application or in providing strategies to formulate public policies at regional/national levels (MIURA et al, 2011) Geographical Information Systems (GIS), in this perspective, aiming to integrate the involved parts in the bioenergy framework so as to generate maps, recover, store and manipulate spatialized data, develop knowledge about the context and analyze all kinds of data (NOON & DALY, 1996;SÁNCHEZ-LOZANO et al, 2013). Several studies have been conducted in the agro-energy planning scope using GIS in many information scales.…”

Section: Geotechnologies In Agro-energy Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, taking into consideration the capital and operational costs, it is necessary to establish the recovery cost that is embedded in each route of straw recovery, described in some studies of biomass logistics as farmgate price, which means the cost that the plant have to pay for the biomass supplier, regardless of the logistic cost (GRAHAM et al, 1997). It is also worth to note that information about secondary roads or non-paved roads is scarce, for this reason, it is essential to incorporate a non-linearity factor in the distance between the area of collection and the mill (MONFORTI et al, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Identification, assessment and ordering of concepts for agro-energy planning and possibilities of spatial analysis

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ABSTRACT:The present study aims to present the main concepts of the sugarcane straw to energy planning. Throughout the study, the subject is contextualized highlighting broader aspects of sustainability, which is considered the main driver towards agro-energy modernization. Concerning sugarcane straw, we first evaluated its availability regarding technical and economic aspects, and then it summarized the straw production chain for energy supply purposes. As a proposal to support agro-energy planning, it is presented some spatial tools that have been barely used in the Brazilian energy planning context so far. Therefore, working on straw to electricity associated with supply chain basis, we developed a conceptual model to spatially assess this bioenergy system. Using the model proposed, it is described the whole supply chain at state level, which accounted the potential of a single mill to explore straw, as well as main costs associated with straw acquisition, investments on the straw recovery routes and electricity transmission. Bearing these concepts in mind, it is fully believed that spatial analysis can bring important information for agro-energy action plans.KEYWORDS: sugarcane, straw, agro-energy planning, geographic information system. IDENTIFICAÇÃO, AVALIAÇÃO E ORDENAMENTO DE CONCEITOS PARA O PLANEJAMENTO AGROENERGÉTICO E AS POSSIBILIDADES DA ANÁLISE ESPACIALRESUMO: O presente artigo busca apresentar os principais conceitos envolvendo um planejamento energético específico da palha da cana-de-açúcar. Ao longo do trabalho, procurou-se contextualizar o tema por meio de questões de sustentabilidade, considerada um dos principais indutores em direção à modernização da agroenergia. Considerando a palha da cana de açúcar, avaliou-se primeiramente sua disponibilidade envolvendo aspetos técnicos e econômicos, e posteriormente caracterizou-se a cadeia de produção da palha para energia. Como proposta para auxílio ao planejamento agroenergetico, apresentou-se algumas ferramentas espaciais que até então pouco têm sido utilizadas para planejamento energético no Brasil. Deste modo, trabalhando o potencial de palha para eletricidade associado à sua cadeia de produção, desenvolveu-se um modelo conceitual para se avaliar espacialmente esse sistema bioenergético. Utilizando o modelo proposto, foi possível descrever toda a cadeia de produção da palha para energia em um nível estadual, envolvendo o potencial que cada usina pode explorar, bem como os principais custos associados à sua aquisição, investimentos relacionados à rota de recuperação e em linhas de transmissão. Por meio dos conceitos abordados, acredita-se que análise espacial pode trazer importantes informações para planos de ação no âmbito agroenergético. PALAVRAS-CHAVE:cana-de-açúcar, palha, planejamento energético, sistema de informação geográfica.Identification, assessment and ordering of concepts for agro-energy planning and possibilities of sp atial analysisEng.

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Section: Geotechnologies In Agro-energy Planningmentioning

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Identification, assessment and ordering of concepts for agro-energy planning and possibilities of spatial analysis

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“…This method considered only the existence of crop residues in each parcel and contained no information on site-specific growth variables such as precipitation, solar radiation, temperature, and soil properties. Monforti et al [22] predicted available crop residues by geographic region based on spatial features, including land cover, and expected biomass productivity derived from soil parameters, climatic zones, and topographical context. We chose land-cover and NPP data to assess the spatial distribution of residues.…”

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“…Existing studies have calculated the yield [17][18][19][20][21] and collectable quantity of crop residues [10,14,16], but few have evaluated their potential for bioenergy use [15,[22][23][24] beyond traditional uses in industrial raw materials, livestock feed, organic fertilizer, and rural energy [3,4]. Furthermore, research on crop residues has tended to focus on a single year rather than longer time periods.…”

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Spatiotemporal Changes in Crop Residues with Potential for Bioenergy Use in China from 1990 to 2010

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“…Due to their benefits many studies focused on the agricultural and agro-industrial residues potential for energy production in EU (Koukios, 1998;Diamantidis and Koukios, 2000;Nikolaou et al, 2003;De Noord et al, 2004;Siemons et al, 2004;Ericsson and Nilsson, 2006;Bacenetti et al, 2015), highlighting the great importance for their energetic utilisation. More in detail, considering the EU-27, the total bioenergy potential of agricultural crop residues (straw from cereals, stalks from maize, rapeseed and sunflower, vineyard and olive trees pruning) is estimated to consist in 1370 PJ EU-27 (Monforti et al, 2013).…”

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Evaluation of the characteristics of vineyard pruning residues for energy applications: effect of different copper-based treatments

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Toscano

Pizzi

et al. 2016

J Agricult Engineer

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The role of biomass for increasing renewable energy sources mix is considered fundamental, despite some negative environmental impact of first-generation biofuels. The use of biomass obtained in a more sustainable way, as represented by agricultural wastes, should be favoured. The Mediterranean area and Italy in particular offer a large amount of vineyard pruning residues that can be converted into bioenergy. Since vineyards are exposed to treatments based on copper (Cu) and zinc, these metals last in wood residues during pruning and accumulate in the soil. In this study an evaluation of the concentrations of copper and other heavy metals in grapevine pruning wastes, when treated with common plant protection products, was carried out. The study was also extended to the soil, being potentially mixed to the biomass in the case of mechanical collection of pruning residues. The grapevine residues free of impurities that were collected during this study have typical values of copper in pruning wood, varying from 8.5 mg kg -1 when treated with low Cu product, to 19.2 mg kg -1 when treated with high Cu product. It was observed that contaminations during pruning with soil could increase the amount of copper in the residues. More in detail, every percentage point of soil that winds up on pruning residues involves an increase of 1 mg of Cu every kg of biomass. For this reason, we recommend the use of appropriate systems for the harvest of grapevine residues, particularly mechanical systems that avoid soil lifting. Moreover, we suggest the use of pruning residues preferably in large-scale power plants with appropriate emission filters instead of small-scale domestic boilers.

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The possible contribution of agricultural crop residues to renewable energy targets in Europe: A spatially explicit study

Cited by 124 publications

References 8 publications

Identification, assessment and ordering of concepts for agro-energy planning and possibilities of spatial analysis

Identification, assessment and ordering of concepts for agro-energy planning and possibilities of spatial analysis

Spatiotemporal Changes in Crop Residues with Potential for Bioenergy Use in China from 1990 to 2010

Evaluation of the characteristics of vineyard pruning residues for energy applications: effect of different copper-based treatments

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