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EUBCE 2024 - Alessandro AGOSTINI - Carbon Footprint of Innovative Biomethane Production Pathways: The BIOMETHAVERSE Project

Carbon Footprint of Innovative Biomethane Production Pathways: The BIOMETHAVERSE Project

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Anaerobic digestion for biogas and biomethane production

Optimising the biogas process

Carbon Footprint of Innovative Biomethane Production Pathways: The BIOMETHAVERSE Project

Short Introductive summary

With this work we provide a first assessment of the potential GHG emissions reduction achievable by the technologies developed within the Biomethaverse project (In-situ and Ex-Situ ElectroMethanoGenesis; Ex-situ Thermochemical/catalytic Methanation; Thermochemical/catalytic upgrading of biogas using renewable hydrogen; Ex-Situ Biological Methanation; Ex-Situ Syngas Biological methanation; In-situ Biological Methanation). The technologies considered are at the boundary between a biofuel and a Renewable Fuel of Non Biological Origin (RFNBO), and in some cases it will be extremely difficult to differentiate the amount of biomethane (produced with anaerobic digestion) and synthetic methane (RFNBO produced thanks to the provision of power or hydrogen). The methodology will therefore explore both the approaches defined for the in the recently published delegated acts for RFNBO and RCF, but also the methodology set in the Renewable Energy Directive for gaseous biofuels.

Presenter

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Alessandro AGOSTINI

ENEA Research Centre, TERIN Dpt., ITALY

Presenter's biography

PhD Alessandro Agostini is an environmental scientist. He is currently Head of the Sustainability of Energy Technologies unit in the Energy Technologies and Renewables department (TERIN-STE) in ENEA. He has 25 years of experience in assessing the sustainability of energy technologies.

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Co-authors:

A. Agostini, ENEA Research Centre, Rome, ITALY
C. Carbone, ENEA, Rome, ITALY
A. Giaconia, ENEA, Rome, ITALY
C. Bassano, ENEA Research Centre, Rome, ITALY
G. Sacchi, Politecnico di Torino, ITALY
G. Papa, ENEA Research CentreEuropean Biogas Association, Brussels, BELGIUM

Session reference: 4DO.7.3