Room: Auditorium 1
Date: Monday, 09 June 2025
Time: 17:30 - 18:30 CEST
Session code 1AO.7
Biomass potentials from marginal land and alternative cropping systems
Yields and Costs of Mechanized Harvesting with a Harvester-Mulcher Operating in a Rockrose (Cistus Laurifolius L.) Shrubland
Short Introductive summary
The aim of CBE4i project Clean bioenergy for industry, i to develope a novel, fuel-flexible biomass updraft gasification based technology for a highly energy efficient, almost zero emission and zero waste process heat supply, for flexible implementation at industrial settings, satisfying the specific demands of industry. Gasification tests are planned to be carried out with low-cost biomasses from southern Europe, including rockrose. The aim of the research is to evaluate the performance of the harvester-mulcher system (López-Garrido TBA 2300) for collecting rockrose (Cistus laurifolius L.) shrublands biomass. The results obtained (biomass production, yields and operating costs) can be extended to other rockrose areas in the central-northern Iberian Peninsula. This equipment provides better results than other tested systems for clearing and collecting rockrose (6.9 tDM/ha (12.9 tWM/ha; 31.3% collection efficiency; 2.8 tWM/PMH and 0.22 ha/PMH productivity. The total net costs were estimated at 104.77 /PMH and 36.97/tDM.
Presenter
Miguel FERNÁNDEZ LLORENTE
CIEMAT, Energy department- CEDER, SPAIN
Presenter's biography
Miguel Fernández Llorente (Master D. in Chemistry and Ph D. in Chemical Engineering) is responsible of Biomass Characterisation Laboratory placed in Soria (CIEMAT) from 1995. He has participated in more than 40 R&D projects and he has written several papers in conferences and international journals.
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Co-authors:
C. S. Ciria, CIEMAT-CEDER, Lubia, SPAIN
J. Perez, CIEMAT-CEDER, Lubia, SPAIN
R. Corredor, CIEMAT-CEDER, Lubia, SPAIN
R. Barro, CIEMAT-CEDER, Lubia, SPAIN
L. S. Esteban, CIEMAT-CEDER, Lubia, SPAIN
I. Mediavilla, CIEMAT-CEDER, Lubia, SPAIN
M.J. Fernandez, CIEMAT-CEDER, Lubia, SPAIN
M. Fernandez Llorente, CIEMAT-CEDER, Lubia, SPAIN
Session reference: 1AO.7.4