JOU2-CT92-0189 Evaluation of Bioenergy Applications (BEACON)

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Biological Conversion : JOULE II Programme : Liquid Biofuels and Biogas

Evaluation of bioenergy applications: combining technical economic and ecological aspects in a new model (BEACON)
Duration 1992-1995

JOULE II PROJECT

The complexity of biomass systems acts as an additional constraint in developing and designing feasible and sustainable technologies and processes for the large-scale production of fuels and other non-food products from biological feedstocks.

The object of this project was to develop and test a new modelling approach and the corresponding PC-aided tools ("Biomass Toolkit") making possible the quantitative description of such complex processess and production systems by performing mass and energy balances, as well as other related calculations (of inputs, pollutants, carbon dioxide effects, other side-effects etc)

The work was based on recent developments in the emerging field of biosystems modelling; biosystems dynamics are described with the help of a minimum number of parameters having clear physical and/or technical significance, default values of all those parameters are provided to assist the non-expert user.

Two types of biosystems are considered; i.e., based on (a) the cultivation of typical energy crops, and (b) the integrated utilization of agricultural residues as biofuels. "Toolkit" is a user friendly interactive computer programme written in C++ language and operating under Windows PC environment.

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Associated Contractor

• Jozef VIGLASKY / Slovak Biomass Association (SK-BIOM) SLOVAK REPUBLIC
• Gyula MARTON / University of Veszprem (UV) Dept of Chemical Engineering Science / HUNGARY

Coordinator

• Emmanuel G KOUKIOS / National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Dept of Chemical Engineering / GREECE

EC Scientific Officer

• Wolfgang PALZ / CEC - DG XII BELGIUM

Participant

• Mr Vito Sardo / STUDIO SARDO ITALY

Sub-Contractor

• SOURIE Jean Claude / INRA Stat d'Economie & Sociologie Rurales / FRANCE
• P Nielsen / Technical University of Denmark Dept. of Env. Science & Engineering / DENMARK