Publications

Workshops and Seminars of Task 37


Presentations of Workshop

«Energy from Biogas»,

Location: Cork, Ireland; Date: 15th September 2011

 

Crop Digestion Brochure
Jerry D Murphy, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Ireland

Digestion of Food Waste in the UK
Charles Banks, Southampton University, United Kingdom

Swedish Experience of gas upgrading, gas injection and transport fuel use
Anneli Petersson, Swedish Gas Centre, Sweden

Green Gas: The Dutch Experience
Mathieu Dumont, NL Agency, The Netherlands

Experience with gas grid injection
John Baldwin, CNG Services Ltd, United Kingdom

Interpretation of the Animal by-products regulations in Ireland
Melanie Farrar, Department of Agriculture Food and Fisheries, Ireland

Utilisation of digestate as biofertiliser
Oliver Harwood, Country Land and Business Association, United Kingdom

Quality assurance of digestate in Switzerland
Nathalie Bachmann, EREP SA, Switzerland

Biogas Research in Finland
Jukka Rintala, Tampere University, Finland

Effect of organic loading rate on biogas yield from animal slurry and biogas crops
Bernde Linke, Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik Potsdam-Bornim, Germany

Biogas Research in the ERI, UCC
Thanasit Thamsiriroj, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Ireland

Biogas research in Teagasc, Grange
Padraig O’ Kiely, Grassland Science Research Department, Teagasc, Grange, Ireland

Presentations of Workshop

«Biogas Production and Utilisation»,

Location: Istanbul, Turkey; Date: 14th April 2011

 

pdfTask 37 Energy from Biogas: An Overview (PDF 1550 KB)
David Baxter, European Commission Joint Research Center, The Netherland

pdfSetting up biogas on a national level (PDF 1130 KB)
Teodorita Al Seadi, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

pdfMatching AD requirements to different feedstocks
(PDF 3025 KB)
Charles Banks, Universitiy of Southampton, United Kingdom

pdfPre-treatment technologies for biogas production
(PDF 362 KB)
Günther Bochmann, IFA-Tulln, Germany

pdfBiogas from energy crop digestion(PDF 1615 KB)
Jerry Murphy, University College Cork, Ireland

pdfBiogas for urban transport application (PDF 2625 KB)
Nuri Azbar, EGE University, Turkey

pdfLearn from mistakes of experienced ones: project developement and engineering(PDF 969 KB)
Andreas Krieg, Akademie für Erneuerbare Energien, Germany

pdfEconomic and Social Effect of Farms Scale Biogas Plants in Rural Areas(PDF 1914 KB)
Özben Eröz, EGE University, Turkey

Proceedings of the Workshop in Den Bosch

«International Seminar»,

Location: Den Bosch, The Netherlands; Date: 4th November 2010

 

pdfTask 37 Energy from Biogas: A Brief Summary (PDF 550 KB)
David Baxter, European Commission Joint Research Center, The Netherland

pdfFrom residues to natural gas (PDF 1400 KB)
Suiker Unie, Project «Plant and Planet», The Netherlands

pdfBiomethane feed-in and distribution: daily practice
(PDF 1600 KB)
Albert van der Molen, Chairman «Project group biomethane», Netbeheer, The Netherlands

pdfSwedish Biogas Approach for a Greener Transport Sector
(PDF 1400 KB)
Dr. Anneli Petersson, Svenskt Gastekniskt Center AB, Sweden

pdfGovernment policy in biogas (PDF 470 KB)
Erik Eijkelberg, The Netherlands

pdfBiogasproduction in agriculture and manure policy
(PDF 90 KB)
Erik Mulleneers, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, The Netherlands

pdfBiogas (PDF 80 KB)
Esther Hardi, Alliander, Germany

pdfBiogas and Natural Gas Grids - Problems and Regulations for the Grid Access (PDF 130 KB)
Dr. Gerrit Volk, German Federal Network for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway, Germany

pdfAgriculture is part of the solution (PDF 770 KB)
Hans Huijbers, Chairman of the ZLTO, The Netherlands

pdfThe Green Injection - into the existing gas grid of Endinet or GTS (PDF 280 KB)
Henk Kluytmans, Manager Projecten & Engineering, Rick Donders, Asset Management, Endinet, The Netherlands

pdfBiomethane Injection: Outlook from a grid controller perspective (PDF 190 KB)
Peter Beumers, Project Group «Groen Gras», Netbeheer, The Netherlands

pdfUtilisation of digestate as fertiliser - a common pratice in Denmark (PDF 130 KB)
Teodorita Al Seadi, Principal Scientist, Denmark

Presentations of Workshop

«Digestate and biogas utilisation – practices and perspectives»,

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark; Date: 27th May 2010

Digestate as fertiliser:

pdfBiogas and slurry separation in Danish agriculture
(PDF 1500 KB)
Torkild Birkmose, Danish Agricultural Advisory Service, Aarhus, Denmark

pdfDigestate use in Canada (PDF 600 KB)
Anna Crolla, Natural Resources Canada, Canada

pdfDigestate use in the United Kingdom (PDF 280 KB)
Clare T. Lukehurst, United Kingdom


Biogas for grid injection:

pdfBiogas to the natural gas grid (PDF 960 KB)
Torben K. Jensen, Danish Gas Technology Centre, Denmark

pdfOverview of biogas upgrading (PDF 4400 KB)
Anneli Petersson, Swedish Gas Centre, Sweden

pdfExperience with grid injection in Germany (PDF 400 KB)
Peter Weiland, Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Germany

pdfUsing biogas for CHP and/or transportation purposes in the long run (PDF 1000 KB)
Soren Tafdrup, Danish Energy Agency, Denmark

Presentations of Workshop

«Biogas upgrading»,

Location: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Date: 8th October 2009

 

pdfIndustrial Organic By-Products for local Energy Production (PDF 1990 KB)
Roland Kirchmayr, Austria

pdfNew Developments in Biogas Upgrading in Austria (PDF 3100 KB)
DI Dr. Michael Harasek; DI Aleksander Makaruk, Austria

pdfLong term experince with Biogas Upgrading (PDF 3900 KB)
Dr. Anneli Petersson, Sweden

pdfBiogas Upgrading from Themal Gasification (PDF 1100 KB)
Dr. Reinhard Rauch, Austria

pdfAdvances in Grid Injection (PDF 800 KB)
Paul Schoeberl, Austria

pdfStatus of Biogas Upgrading in Germany (PDF 700 KB)
P. Weiland, Germany

pdfBiogas Upgrading – an Introduction (PDF 1900 KB)
Arthur Wellinger, Switzerland

Presentations of Task 36 and 37

«Biofuels&Bioenergy – a Changing Climate»

Location: Vancouver, Canada
Date: 23 - 26th August 2009

 

pdfIntegrating energy recovery into solid waste management: Trend in IEA countries (PDF 615 KB)
Pat Howes, UK

pdfComparing the Environmental Impacts of Residual Waste Management Options (PDF 220 KB)
Judith Bates

pdfEnergy from waste, one step further (PDF 640 KB)
Timo Gerlagh, Netherlands

pdfResidential Waste – an often overlooked bioenergy source (PDF 1750 KB)
Jürgen Vehlow, Germany

pdfProcess for Bio natural gas production from Forestry residue (PDF 770 KB)
Matt Babicki, Brian Sellars

pdfApplication of biomethane in private and public transport (PDF 2500 KB)
Arthur Wellinger, Switzerland

pdfModern technologies of biogas upgrading (PDF 3000 KB)
Anneli Petersson, Sweden

pdfAnaerobic digestion as a biofuel production technology from crops
(PDF 670 KB)
Serge R. Guiot, Canada

pdfRanking energy options for a district heating system in Vancouver
(PDF 800 KB)
Taraneh Sowlati, Saeed Ghafghazi, Shahab Sokhansanj, Staffan Melin, Canada

pdfEuropean Union Policy Promoting Bioenergy (PDF 2300 KB)
David Baxter, Kyriakos Maniatis, EU Commission

Presentations from the Ludlow meeting,

«Co-digestion for an optimized production of biogas and fertilizer»

Location: South Shropshire, Biowaste Digester, The Buisness Park, Ludlow, UK
Date: 17th April 2008

 

Workshop organisers
The workshop was organised as a joint session between the IEA Bioenergy Task 37 working group «Energy from Biogas and Landfill Gas» and «Probiogas UK»

Program (PDF 20 KB)


Presentations

pdfThe contribution of AD in delivering renewable energy and the rôle of IEA Bioenergy Task 37 (PDF 2200 KB)
Arthur Wellinger, Nova Energie, Switzerland

pdfAnaerobic Digestion: the UK Policy Framework (PDF 66 KB)
Jeremy Eppel, defra, UK

pdfImpact of competition claims for food and energy on Germany biogas production (PDF 2500 KB)
Peter Weiland, Federal Research Institut for Rural Areas, Foresty and Fisheries, Germany

pdfResults of 41 Co-digestion Digestion Plants in Austria (PDF 2200 KB)
Rudolf Braun and Roland Kirchmayr, IFA-Tulln, Austria

pdfCo-digestion in Västeras and Kristianstad (PDF 4800 KB)
Anneli Petersson, SGC, Sweden

pdfLudlow Food Waste Digester (PDF 4100 KB)
Michael Chesshire, Greenfinch, UK

pdfDeveloping a Quality Protocol for Anaerobic Digestion (PDF 940 KB)
Nina Sweet, wrap, UK

pdfDigestate/biofertiliser in the UK (PDF 550 KB)
Clare T. Lukehurst, Probiogas, UK

pdfBiogas and a Vehicle Fuel (PDF 1400 KB)
Tevor Fletcher, The Hardstaff Group, UK

pdfDigestate utilisation and Management (PDF 2100 KB)
Jens Bo Holm-Nielsen, sdu, Denmark

abstracts & contribution berlin

Abstracts and contributions from the workshop in Berlin 2007

«Biogas: Energy throughout the whole world»

Location: ICC, International Congress Center, Berlin, Germany
Date: 7 - 11th May 2007

 

Workshop organisers
The workshop was organised as a joint session between the IEA Bioenergy Task 37 working group «Energy from Biogas and Landfill Gas» and the EU-funded 6th Framework project «Renewable Energy from Crops and Agrowastes» (CROPGEN – University of Southampton, UK)

pdfProgram (PDF 26 KB)


Abstracts

pdfEnergy efficiency in Energy Crop Digestion (PDF 40 KB)
Rudolf Braun and Michael Laaber, Austria

Optimized growth and preservation of energy crop (PDF 40 KB)
Katja Gödeke and Michaela Heiermann, Germany

pdfBiogas to fuel: Merits and limits (PDF 45 KB)
Owe Jönsson, Sweden

pdfCrops for biogas production; yields, suitability and energy balances (PDF 33 KB)
Andrew Salter, United Kingdom


Contributions

pdfStatus of biogas production and application (PDF 1600 KB)
Charles Banks, University of Southamton United Kingdom

pdfEnergy Efficiency of Crop Digestion (PDF 3500 KB)
Rudolf Braun and Michael Laaber, Austria

pdfOptimized growth and preservation of energy crop (PDF 550 KB)
Katja Gödeke and Michaela Heiermann, Germany

pdfOptimized growth and preservation of energy crop (PDF 440 KB)
M. Heiermann, C. Herrmann, C. Idler and V. Scholz

pdfBiogas to fuel: Merits and limits (PDF 460 KB)
Owe Jönsson, Sweden

pdfCrops for biogas production; yields, suitability and energy balances (PDF 33 KB)
Andrew Salter, United Kingdom

Proceedings of the workshop in Utrecht

«Energy crops and biogas – Pathways to success?»

Location: Hoog Brabant Conference Center, 3511 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands
Date: September 22, 2005

 

Workshop organisers
The workshop was organised as a joint session between the IEA Bioenergy Task 37 working group «Energy from Biogas and Landfill Gas» and the EU-funded 6th Framework project «Renewable Energy from Crops and Agrowastes» (CROPGEN – University of Southampton, UK)


Proceedings

Tropic 1: Identification and development of crops for energy production

pdfPlant breeding potential to improve energy crops for the use in biogas plants (PDF 4800 KB)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Friedt
Justus Liebling University, Giessen
Germany

pdfSwichtgrass and Miscanthus as Energy Crops – Agricultural alspects (PDF 2100 KB)
Dr. Wolter Elbersen
WUR
The Netherlands

pdfBiodiversity impacts of enhanced energy crop production in
EU framland areas
(PDF 1270 KB)
Dr. Berien Elbersen
WUR
The Netherlands


Tropic 2: Biomass processing concepts, storages, pre- and post treatment, technologies and impacts

pdfresults and bottle necks of energy crop digestion plants – required process technology innovations (PDF 484 KB)
Prof. Dr. Peter Weiland,
Federal Agricultural Research Center
Germany

pdfpreliminary results of biomass storing and pre-treatment (PDF 531 KB)
Prof. Dr. Jukka Rintala
Jyväskylä University
Finland

pdfpreliminary results from the agrioptigas project (PDF 6800 KB)
Dr. Ake Nordberg
JTI
Sweden

pdfexperience with co-digestion of energy crops (PDF 3800 KB)
Ir. Hendrik Jan van Dooren
WUR
The Netherlands


Tropic 3: Overall energy balance of crop to biogas systems

pdfenergy balances of crop to biogas systems in relation to other biotransformations (PDF 3500 KB)
Dr. Andre Faaij,
Copernicus Inst. for Sustainable Development
The Netherlands

pdfEnergy analysis and environmental analysis of biogas systems
(PDF 118 KB)
Dr. Pal Börjesson,
Departement of Technology and Society, Lund University
Sweden

pdfenergetic use of biomass – competing or complementing technologies? (PDF 2300 KB)
Samuel Stucki
Paul Scherrer Institut
Switzerland


Tropic 4: Potential of integrated biogas systems

pdfPossibilities of integrating bioenergy (biogas) generation into other biomass based production systems (PDF 2300 KB)
Prof. Dr. Johan Sanders
WUR
The Netherlands

pdfbiocascading – towards efficient biomass chains (PDF 186 KB)
Prof. Dr. Paul Struik
WUR
The Netherlands

predicted energy crop potentials for biogas –
worldwide, regions – EU 25
(Word 806 KB)
Jens Bo Holm-Nielsen
Aalborg University
Denmark

PDF Programme and presentations

Presentations of the Jyvaeskylae Seminar
«Production and Use of Biogas»

(only PDF); 2004

 

pdfProgramme (PDF 19 KB)

 

Presentations of the Jyvaeskylae Seminar

pdfEnergy from Biogas and Landfille gas - european Outlook (PDF 610 KB)
Dr. Arthur Wellinger,
Switzerland

pdfProduction and Use of Biogas in Finland (PDF 400 KB)
Prof. Jukka Rintala
Finland

pdfProduction and Use of Biogas - EU Regulations and Research
(PDF 930 KB)
David Baxter
European Commission

pdfEnvironmental Impact Assessment of the Biogas Plant (PDF 141 KB)
Dr. Juhani Suvilampi
Watrec Oy

pdfPotential of Co-Digestion (PDF 190 KB)
Dr. Rudolf Braun
Austria

pdfUpgrading and Use of Biogas as Fuel of Motor Vehicles (PDF 365 KB)
Owe Joensson
Finland

pdfBiogas Plants in the Netherland (PDF 565 KB)
John Neeft
The Netherlands

pdfLarge Biogas Plants in Denmark (PDF 875 KB
Anne Seth Madsen
Denmark

pdfSmall-scale Co-Digestion Plant in Laihia, Finland (PDF 490 KB)
Martti Jormanainen
Finland