Biogas power plants (BPPs) have been rapidly developing in Italy in the latest years, thanks also to major government subsidies, especially in Northern Italy where numerous agriculture and zoo technical Companies are located. In this paper, conventional Emergy Analysis (EMA) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods are used to study the sustainability conditions for a BPP. A real power plant located in Northern Italy and operating since 2012 is taken as case study. The quantification, in emergy terms, of natural resources used to build and operate the plant and the possible environmental impacts of materials and energy flows require a detailed analysis of several subsystems in the BPP. In this work, preliminary results are presented pointing out differences and complementarity of the used methodologies, with the aim of setting the basis for an emergy evaluation of the whole BPP and biomass production phases at the technosphere level of detail provided by the Life Cycle Inventory (LCI), using the emergy calculation software SCALEM®.

Emergy and Life Cycle-based Analyses of Energy Production Systems: Preliminary Study of a Biogas Power Plant / Spagnolo, S., Chinellato, G., Cristiano, S., Gonella, F., Marvuglia, A., Semenzin, E., Zabeo, A.. - ELETTRONICO. - (2019), pp. 0-0. (Intervento presentato al convegno 10th Biennial Emergy Conference tenutosi a Gainesville, FL nel 25-27 gennaio 2018).

Emergy and Life Cycle-based Analyses of Energy Production Systems: Preliminary Study of a Biogas Power Plant

Cristiano S.;
2019

Abstract

Biogas power plants (BPPs) have been rapidly developing in Italy in the latest years, thanks also to major government subsidies, especially in Northern Italy where numerous agriculture and zoo technical Companies are located. In this paper, conventional Emergy Analysis (EMA) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods are used to study the sustainability conditions for a BPP. A real power plant located in Northern Italy and operating since 2012 is taken as case study. The quantification, in emergy terms, of natural resources used to build and operate the plant and the possible environmental impacts of materials and energy flows require a detailed analysis of several subsystems in the BPP. In this work, preliminary results are presented pointing out differences and complementarity of the used methodologies, with the aim of setting the basis for an emergy evaluation of the whole BPP and biomass production phases at the technosphere level of detail provided by the Life Cycle Inventory (LCI), using the emergy calculation software SCALEM®.
2019
Emergy Synthesis 10: Theory and Applications of the Emergy Methodology. Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Emergy Conference. Center for Environmental Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville
10th Biennial Emergy Conference
Gainesville, FL
25-27 gennaio 2018
Spagnolo, S., Chinellato, G., Cristiano, S., Gonella, F., Marvuglia, A., Semenzin, E., Zabeo, A.
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