AT A GLANCE Project Information
Project Title: BIORESOURCE - Increasing the biomass resource, its quality and sustainability
Project Objective: The overall objective is to double the biomass yield per unit of land in a sustainable and cost efficient way in order to increase the resource for bioenergy. By exploiting the biological and technological potential of land use and biomass conversion technologies we aim to maximise the output of energy.
Project Duration and Timing: March 2012 – February 2016
Project Funding: The Strategic Research Council – now the “Innovation Fund Denmark”. Total budget 25,172,161 DKK of which 17,598,978 DKK from IFD
this way, though we reduce greenhouse emissions in Denmark, we will induce increases in other countries. “Consequently, we have focused on the
most productive grass crops we can find which have a high content of proteins that can be extracted and used as animal feed to substitute the import of feedstuff like soy. This was not originally a goal for the BIORESOURCE project – it is more of a spin-off!” The team now believe that they have
established a basis by which willow and possibly poplar can be integrated into making a significant contribution to heat and power plants for Denmark in the short term – a possibility that has a commercial interest to the project partner HedeDanmark. Although Dr Jorgensen concedes that there will always be some debate over sustainability, and issues of biodiversity when it comes to the use of biomass as an energy source, he seems optimistic about the legacy of the project. “We have managed to have good
cooperation with NGOs on how to develop the biomass sector so we can produce these biomass crops and have a positive effect on environmental problems like nutrient leaching. It has always been one of
the 40 should not only produce more biomass,
“Our goal was to look at the current systems of agricultural production and see if we could
double productivity in those systems in a sustainable way”
but we should do it to create a win-win situation so that we can help
environmental goals on nutrient leaching, substituting fossil fuels and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.” Jorgensen and his team will continue to
overriding objectives that we
look into biomass and its capabilities, and in cooperation with the University of Copenhagen, are also investigating the conversion efficiency of miscanthus into ethanol. This route has a particular interest for the commercial partners of the project, Novozymes and DONG Energy, and pilot scale conversion is planned for the coming autumn at DONG.
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Project Partners: • Aarhus University • University of Illinois • University of Copenhagen • DONG Energy • HedeDanmark • Novozymes • Vitroform
MAIN CONTACT
Uffe Jørgensen Senior scientist at the Department of Agroecology. Key research topics have been genotypic variation in yield and fuel quality, environmental aspects of energy crop production and national inventories of biomass resources.
Jørgen E. Olesen Professor at the Department of Agroecology in climate change adaptation and mitigation in agriculture.
Contact: Tel: +45 8999 7729 Email:
Uffe.jorgensen@
agro.au.dk ,
jeo@agro.au.dk Web:
www.dca.au.dk www.bioresource.dk
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