Room: Poster Area
Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Time: 17:30 - 18:30 CEST
Session code 2BV.9
Advanced optimization and digitalization of bioenergy and bioeconomy systems for sustainable resource utilization
Optimization of Heat Management in Demand-Oriented Biogas Plants with Increased Use of Residual Feedstock
Short Introductive summary
The future climate-neutral energy supply in Germany will largely depend on variable renewable sources. To balance fluctuations in power generation and demand, flexible (demand-oriented) biogas plants play a crucial role as controllable and renewable energy provider. Their long-term viability, however, requires sustainable and economically efficient operation. The research project FlexWasteHeat develops and applies dynamic models of eight full-scale biogas plants to identify and assess technical and operational optimization measures. The comprehensive modeling framework enables the quantitative evaluation of interactions between electricity market flexibility, thermal utilization and residual feedstock. Within a model based sensitivity analyses, the energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness of structural, process-related, and control-oriented measures will be quantified. The results provides a transferable methodological basis for enhancing existing biogas infrastructure and supporting its integration into a sustainable, climate-neutral, and resilient energy system.
Presenter
Tobias BALDAUF
Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Institute of New Energy-Systems, GERMANY
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Co-authors:
F. Baierl, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Institute of New Energy-Systems, Ingolstadt, GERMANY
J. Braun, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Institute of New Energy-Systems, Ingolstadt, GERMANY
M. Goldbrunner, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Institute of New Energy-Systems, Ingolstadt, GERMANY
Session reference: 2BV.9.3