Empirical Validation of a Biogas Plant Simulation Model and Analysis of Biogas Upgrading Potentials

Zepter, Jan Martin; Engelhardt, Jan; Gabderakhmanova, Tatiana; Marinelli, Mattia

doi:10.3390/en14092424

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“…The boiler, together with the biogas plant, tie the electrical grid with the local district heating network. Withal, it is expected that in the nearest future the VPP will also aggregate a 1 MW/1 MWh stationary BESS, a MW-scale electrolyser, a fleet of electric vehicles, as well as RCL and ICL [94,95] The focus of the use case it given to the analytical and experimental investigation of flexibility potential of the biogas plant, power capping capabilities of wind turbines and the solar PV plant, energy management and control of the VPP, and holistic optimisation of the island's energy system to reduce curtailment of renewables and balance the grid [96,97]. The demo pilot in Madeira (INSULAE(3)) aims at expanding the existing EV charging infrastructure on the island with four 10 kW vehicle-to-grid (V2G) chargers and three 50 kW fast chargers, one of which is based on silicon carbide semiconductors.…”

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Multi-Energy System Demonstration Pilots on Geographical Islands: An Overview across Europe

Gabderakhmanova

Marinelli

2022

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Smart integration of different energy sectors on islands could serve as a key to achieve their energy independence and carbon neutrality goals and facilitate the large-scale penetration of renewables. Demonstration projects play a vital role in testing innovative sector-coupling solutions and exploring their synergies in the real-life environment. They also help to build the required market confidence and awareness, verify and enhance the societal acceptance, and identify and prevent unnecessary risks and complications. The aim of this paper is to provide the reader with a comprehensive review of 19 research projects, which concern the demonstration of sector-coupling technologies on European islands. The projects are funded by the European Commission and started between 2010 and 2020. The review focuses on the exploration of various technical aspects of 28 demo pilots. In addition, it addresses objectives, contributions, and novelty of the demonstrations and analyses barriers, challenges, risks, and success factors reported by project stakeholders. The paper intends to support the decision-makers on the identification, adoption, and replication of successful technologies. Moreover, it provides researchers and other interested parties with lessons learnt to ensure the successful project execution and technology demonstration in future projects.

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“…This unlocks the interconnection of four energy sectors at once-power, heat, gas, and transportation. Therefore, the biogas plant can be considered as a central element of the islands' future sustainable economies [96].…”

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Multi-Energy System Demonstration Pilots on Geographical Islands: An Overview across Europe

Gabderakhmanova

Marinelli

2022

Energies

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“…An important role in hybrid and off-grid solutions [24,26,29,30,[33][34][35][36][37][38] and systems is played by energy storage units. The evolution of the energy market towards micro production of electrical energy and heat implicates certain problems with unpredictable energy production profiles and its balancing in hybrid systems.…”

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Energy Self-Sufficient Livestock Farm as the Example of Agricultural Hybrid Off-Grid System

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Contemporary agriculture has become very energy-intensive and mainly uses electricity, which is needed for technological processes on livestock farms. Livestock faeces are burdensome for the environment due to the release of methane into the atmosphere. This article presents the concept of a self-sufficient livestock farm as an off-grid energy circuit that is a part of the agricultural process. The key idea is to obtain an energy flow using the concept of a smart valve to achieve a self-sufficient energy process based on a biogas plant, renewable energy sources, and energy storage. During the production process, a livestock farm produces large amounts of waste in the form of grey and black manure. On the one hand, these products are highly harmful to the environment, but on the other, they are valuable input products for another process, i.e., methane production. The methane becomes the fuel for cogeneration generators that produce heat and electricity. Heat and electricity are partly returned to the main farming process and partly used by residents of the area. In this way, a livestock farm and the inhabitants of a village or town can become energy self-sufficient and independent of national grids. The idea described in this paper shows the process of energy production combining a biogas plant, renewable energy sources, and an energy storage unit that enable farmland to become fully self-sufficient through the energy flow between all constituents of the energy cycle being maintained by a smart valve.

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“…Biogas plants operating on organic waste are at the heart of the reliable, low-carbon, multi-energy systems of the future [46]. As cogeneration units, biogas plants significantly contribute to further interconnection of future energy systems, acting as intermediaries, especially in the thermal domain [47].…”

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Investment Model of Agricultural Biogas Plants for Individual Farms in Poland

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The main idea of a circular economy (CE) is to separate economic growth from resource consumption and environmental impacts. The characteristic approach of a CE assumes the minimisation of the amount of waste generated at the design level and, as a standard, includes innovations throughout the value chain. From an agricultural point of view, agricultural biogas plants are particularly important because they enable the management of all waste biomass and its conversion into useful energy and agricultural fertiliser. This paper presents methods for assessing the economic effectiveness of an investment in an agricultural biogas plant. The research goal was to develop a financial model. The authors of this study used available examples of the profitability of commercial ventures. We considered the investment aspects of agricultural biogas plants. Exemplary solutions are discussed, allowing the reader to become acquainted with various methods and proposals for thus far estimated investments. It may seem chaotic, but this is how the biogas market is characterised in the context of the implementation of biogas projects. Guidance is given regarding how to understand investing in this sensitive private farming sector. It is admirable that the renewable energy market has been systematised, and we hypothesise that it is necessary to develop an investment model in Polish conditions.

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Empirical Validation of a Biogas Plant Simulation Model and Analysis of Biogas Upgrading Potentials

Cited by 18 publications

References 30 publications

Multi-Energy System Demonstration Pilots on Geographical Islands: An Overview across Europe

Multi-Energy System Demonstration Pilots on Geographical Islands: An Overview across Europe

Energy Self-Sufficient Livestock Farm as the Example of Agricultural Hybrid Off-Grid System

Investment Model of Agricultural Biogas Plants for Individual Farms in Poland

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