Biomass for electricity in the EU-27: Potential demand, CO2 abatements and breakeven prices for co-firing

Bertrand, Vincent; Dequiedt, Benjamin; Cadre, Elodie Le

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2014.06.007

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“…() and the boiler age. The efficiency of the power plants under the co‐firing scheme assumes efficiency losses depending on the co‐firing fraction (Bertrand et al., ; Hansson et al., ) (see Supporting Information for more information).…”

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“…Previous studies of the biomass co‐firing potential in the EU include Hansson et al. (), which assessed biomass co‐firing with coal in existing coal‐fired power plants in the EU‐27, and Bertrand, Dequiedt, and Le Cadre (), which matched the demand for biomass‐based electricity with the potential biomass supply in Europe. While Hansson et al.…”

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“…() only focused on mapping biomass demand, Bertrand et al. () compared the demand with the supply based on previously published biomass supply estimates at the country level. Higher resolution assessment of biomass demand and supply patterns in Europe can provide a more comprehensive understanding of how the biomass demand for co‐firing and other applications can be met.…”

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Geospatial supply–demand modeling of biomass residues for co‐firing in European coal power plants

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Biomass co-firing with coal is a near-term option to displace fossil fuels and can facilitate the development of biomass conversion and the build-out of biomass supply infrastructure. A GIS-based modeling framework (EU-28, Norway, and Switzerland) is used to quantify and localize biomass demand for co-firing in coal power plants and agricultural and forest residue supply potentials; supply and demand are then matched based on minimizing the total biomass transport costs (field to gate). Key datasets (e.g., land cover, land use, and wood production) are available at 1,000 m or higher resolution, while some data (e.g., simulated yields) and assumptions (e.g., crop harvest index) have lower resolution and were resampled to allow modeling at 1,000 m resolution. Biomass demand for co-firing is estimated at 184 PJ in 2020, corresponding to an emission reduction of 18 Mt CO 2 . In all countries except Italy and Spain, the sum of the forest and agricultural residues available at less than 300 km from a co-firing plant exceeds the assessed biomass demand. The total cost of transporting residues to these plants is reduced if agricultural residues can be used, as transport distances are shorter. The total volume of forest residues less than 300 km from a co-firing plant corresponds to about half of the assessed biomass demand. Almost 70% of the total biomass demand for co-firing is found in Germany and Poland. The volumes of domestic forest residues in Germany (Poland) available within the cost range 2-5 (1.5-3.5) €/GJ biomass correspond to about 30% (70%) of the biomass demand. The volumes of domestic forest and agricultural residues in Germany (Poland) within the cost range 2-4 (below 2) €/GJ biomass exceed the biomass demand for co-firing.Half of the biomass demand is located within 50 km from ports, indicating that long-distance biomass transport by sea is in many instances an option. K E Y W O R D Sagriculture, bioenergy, CO 2 emissions, co-firing, European Union, forestry, geographic information system, residues

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“…Generally smaller in size due to limited feedstock availability and high transportation costs (Bertrand et al 2014). Have high investment cost and a low conversion efficiency of 25% (Bertrand et al 2014 Biodiesel is usually produced from animal fat or from several types of vegetable oils. There are many trees around the world with large potential for straight vegetable oil (SVO) and biodiesel production.…”

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Bioenergy from agroforestry can lead to improved food security, climate change, soil quality, and rural development

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Well-designed bioenergy systems can contribute to several objectives, such as mitigating climate change, increasing energy access, and alleviating rural poverty. With adequate technical assistance and land management, farm yields and income can be increased, food security strengthened, carbon sequestration improved, and pressure for land clearing reduced. There are, nonetheless, risks involved on bioenergy production and several initiatives worldwide have failed to achieve proposed positive outcomes. Overreliance on monoculture plantations, negative land-use change impacts, and use of cereal crops as feedstocks are among the main causes. Agroforestry systems and practices can address most of these risks and thus play an important role in sustainable production of several bioenergy outputs, including efficient solid biomass, biogas, liquid biofuels, and dendro power. This article assesses the potential of such integrated approaches to provide multiple benefits, including the coproduction of food, animal feed, and organic fertilizers, while respecting economic, social, and environmental sustainability indicators. Building on experiences from sub-Saharan Africa, developing Asia, and Latin America, promising perennial species, production models, and value chains are analyzed. Finally, key challenges and potential solutions for larger scale adoption of integrated food-energy approaches are also identified and discussed. 166

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“…Apart from this energetic consideration that involves a reduction in the overall fuel consumption of the plant, the exhaust gases from an oxyfuel coal/biomass fed power plant contain mainly water and CO2 so the CCS process is straightforward ( Figure 1). Then second and third ZEP's concepts are also satisfied within oxyfuel approaches in these co-fed power plants as several studies suggest [4][5][6][7][8].…”

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Oxygen transport membranes in a biomass/coal combined strategy for reducing CO 2 emissions: Permeation study of selected membranes under different CO 2 -rich atmospheres

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ElsevierGarcía Fayos, J.; Vert Belenguer, VB.; Balaguer Ramirez, M.; Solis Díaz, C.; Gaudillere, CC.; Serra Alfaro, JM. (2015). Oxygen transport membranes in a biomass/coal combined strategy for reducing CO2 emissions: Permeation study of selected membranes under different CO2-rich atmospheres. Catalysis Today. 257 (2) AbstractThis contribution introduces how the integration of biomass as fuel in power plants would balance CO2 emissions and the related role of oxygen transport membranes (OTM) on it. CO2 capture techniques could be introduced to minimize CO2 emissions at the cost of a substantial energy penalty in the overall process. Among the different approaches, the use of pure O2and/or N2-free oxidation gases for combustion and/or for gasification leads to promising energy efficiencies. Ceramic OTM membranes could be successfully integrated in such thermal processes, which enable to increase the net plant efficiency when CO2 capture is implemented.Further, this work reviews how selected ceramic materials and membrane architectures behave under CO2 containing atmospheres at high temperatures above 700 ºC. These conditions have been selected for checking the viability of these compositions and configurations to fit in an oxy-co-gasification process, involving coal and biomass. The tested asymmetric membranes present promising oxygen fluxes in the range 0.6-1.2 ml·min -1 ·cm -2 when using 100% CO2 as sweep gas at 850 ºC (optimal membrane operation conditions in oxyfuel power plant) and stable oxygen production up to 100 hours of continuous operation in similar conditions. Specifically, La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3-δ and NiFe2O4 -Ce0.8Tb0.2O2-δ composite materials showed the best results for oxygen permeation and time stability under CO2-rich atmospheres.

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Biomass for electricity in the EU-27: Potential demand, CO2 abatements and breakeven prices for co-firing

Cited by 30 publications

References 24 publications

Geospatial supply–demand modeling of biomass residues for co‐firing in European coal power plants

Geospatial supply–demand modeling of biomass residues for co‐firing in European coal power plants

Bioenergy from agroforestry can lead to improved food security, climate change, soil quality, and rural development

Oxygen transport membranes in a biomass/coal combined strategy for reducing CO 2 emissions: Permeation study of selected membranes under different CO 2 -rich atmospheres

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