| Time | Title | Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | Registration, Coffee and Croissants | ||
| 9:15 | Welcome | Sandra Hermle | SFOE, Berne (CH) |
| Block 1 -- SFOE projects: Agricultural biogas production | Chair: Mireille Faist | Empa | |
| 9:30 | LCA of biogas from different purchased substrates and energy crops DF47-01 Stucki.pdf | Matthias Stucki | ESU-services Ltd., Uster (CH) |
| 10:00 | Are catch crops sustainable for biogas production? DF47-02 Hayer.pdf | Frank Hayer | ART, Reckenholz-Zurich (CH) (now BAFU-FOEN, Berne (CH)) |
| 10:30 | LCA of agricultural biogas production – the effects of plant size DF47-03 Alig.pdf | Martina Alig | ART, Reckenholz-Zurich (CH) |
| 11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| Block 2 -- SFOE projects: Biomass treatment | Chair: Matthias Stucki | ESU-services | |
| 11:20 | LCA of burning different solid biomass substrates DF47-04 Itten.pdf | René Itten | ESU-services Ltd., Uster (CH) |
| 11:50 | Effects of accounting organic matter in compost and digestate DF47-05+06 Schleiss+Zschokke.pdf | Konrad Schleiss | UMWEKO GmbH, Grenchen (CH) |
| 12:10 | Influence of heavy metals on evaluating biomass treatment DF47-05+06 Schleiss+Zschokke.pdf | Mischa Zschokke | Carbotech, Basel (CH) |
| 12:30 | Lunch break | ||
| Block 3 -- SFOE projects: Biomass and biofuels | Chair: Rainer Zah | Empa | |
| 13:40 | Harmonisation and update of the biomass datasets in the context of bioenergy DF47-07 Nemecek.pdf | Thomas Nemecek | ART, Reckenholz-Zurich (CH) |
| 14:00 | Update and harmonization of the bioenergy inventories DF47-08 Faist.pdf | Mireille Faist | Empa / Technology & Society Lab, Dübendorf (CH) |
| Block 4 -- Short presentations | |||
| 14:20 | Short presentations | ||
| 15:10 | Coffee break | ||
| Outlook | Peter Gerber | FOEN | |
| 15:40 | What are the environmentally optimal uses of different biomass feedstocks - heating, electricity generation or transportation? DF47-09 Steubing.pdf | Bernhard Steubing | ETHZ/Empa, Zurich (CH) |
| 16:10 | Bioenergy in the European Union DF47-10 Koeppen.pdf | Susanne Köppen | IFEU, Heidelberg (D) |
| 16:40 | Feedback, wrap-up and farewell | Peter Gerber | BAFU-FOEN, Berne (CH) |
| 16:50 | Finish |
DF 47 – LCA of energetic biomass utilisation: current projects and new developments
Dear colleagues with an interest in Life Cycle Assessment,
We kindly invite you to the 47th discussion forum on Life Cycle Assessment.
In the last years, the use of biomass for energy purposes, such as electricity, heat, and transport services, has been seen as a promising option to reduce the use of non-renewable energy sources and the emissions of fossil carbon. However, LCA studies have shown that the energetic use of biomass also causes impacts on climate change, and, furthermore that different environmental issues arise, such as land use and agricultural emissions. While biomass is renewable, it is not an unlimited resource. Its use, to whatever purpose, must therefore be well studied to promote the most efficient option with the least environmental impacts.
Consequently, there is a need for up-to-date life cycle inventories of biomass and its energetic use to provide such studies with best available data. This is the focus of a range of projects financed by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), which are presented in this discussion forum. The inventories developed in those projects will be published to a great extent in June in the new version of ecoinvent (www.ecoinvent.org). Some of the inventory data are already now freely available in EcoSpold format and can thus be used by LCA practitioners (https://www.lc-inventories.ch).
In the 47th discussion forum current developments of LCA studies in the field of energy crops, biogas production, biomass combustion and biofuels will be presented. We invite all LCA researchers, practitioners and all people interested in energetic biomass utilisation to hear about the results from the latest studies. The forum will as usual also offer the opportunity for short presentations on the topic.
We look forward to meeting you in Berne-Ittigen
The organizers of LCA Discussion Forum DF47:
Matthias Stucki (ESU-services), Mireille Faist Emmenegger (EMPA) & Sandra Hermle (SFOE)
Download: DF47-Energetic Biomass-Programme.pdf