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Energy from Biomass
Presentation at the seminar
Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Bad Honnef, 27 May, 2008
Insecurity of fossil fuel supply?
Bioenergy statistical data.
Biomass for food and energy!
Brazil’s potential.
Global agricultural production.
Forests in the world.
Sweden has a zero net emission of CO2!
Bioenergy in Sweden.
Fertilizers.
Concluding statements.
Sven Kullander
Energy Committee
Production and price of oil
$ 100
84Mbd
Security of supply?
Not yet developed gas fields
3
Bioenergy share of energy supply in some
selected countries
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
World
EU-25
Germany
S weden
Finland
Norway
Denmark
Renewables in 2005
EU – 25 Germany Sweden Norway Denmark Finland
Biomass
4.1%
2.3%
17%
5%
7.1%
15%
Hydro
1.5%
0.6%
10%
51%
0%
3.6%
Geotherm
0.3%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Wind
0.3%
0.7%
0.1%
0%
1.5%
0%
Solar
0.04%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
 6.3%
 3.6%
 27%
EU target for renewables by 2010 is 12% and by 2020 it is 20%!
Nordic land areas
Sweden
Norway
Finland
Denmark
EU-25
Germany
Aral land (Mha)
2.7
0.87
2.23
2.84
106
13
Forests (Mha)
23.0
7.03
20.3
0.51
137
11
Assumptions about EU-27 bioenergy potential
• AEBIOM* assumes that 0.16 hectares/person is enough for food!
• EU has 106 Mha agricultural land and 490 million inhabitants.
• Thus 32 Mha should be available for bioenergy from agriculture!?
• EEA** assumes biomass potential1) is 188 Mtoe (2010), 236 Mtoe (2020).
1) Includes biomass from forestry, agriculture and biowaste and was 72 Mtoe in 2005
*) European Biomass Association (AEBIOM)
**) European Environmental Agency (EEA)
Food and energy for a sustainable climate
Biomass primarily for food. Electricity for energy.
Foods or fuels?
852 million people are chronically
undernourished
Countries
in transition
28
Sub-Saharan
Africa
204
Developed
market
economies
9
Asia and the
Pacific
519
Near East and
North Africa
39
Latin America
and the
Caribbean
53
(2000 – 2002)
A Swede eats every year
50 kg greens
15 kg fish
49 kg meat
37 kg bread
65 kg potato
180 kg milk
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Energy content
3150 MJ = 3150 MWs
A person’s power dissipation = 100 watt
(1 year is 3,15×107 s)
People’s energy needs = 6,6×109×3150 MWs = 5 800 TWh/år*)
*)Global energy consumption = 125 000 TWh/year
Energy content per kg
Unit is mega joule (MJ)
Sugar
17 MJ
Bread
12 MJ
Ham
11 MJ
Whisky 10 MJ
Compare
Ethanol
27 MJ
Gasoline 43 MJ
Liquid fuels!?
Produced in 2007:
1 billion litres Scotch (40%) from Barley
- corresponds to Swedish car ethanol consumption
20 billion litres US ethanol from corn
18 billion litres Brazilian ethanol from sugar cane
1% of world’s motor fuel is ethanol
- can it be incresed ten times?
Brazil’s potential*
*) From the presentation by Prof. Donato Aranda, Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro
at the seminar Future of Forest Bioenergy, Royal Swedish Engineering Academy of
Sciences, Stockholm, 2007
Physical Productivity
Quantity of
Product / liter
of Ethanol
Raw Material
Production / ha
(kg)
SUGAR CANE
85,000
12 kg
7,080 liter
CORN
10,000
2.8 kg
3,570 liter
Quantity of
Ethanol / ha
Source: Brazilian Agricultural Ministry
90 million hectares is two times Sweden’s size!
Sugar Cane production in Brazil *
Output/Input Energy ~ 8.2
18 billion litres ethanol on 6 million hectars
0.24 % of global oil production
*Donato Aranda, Royal Engineering Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, 2007
Biodiesel Program
From Donato Aranda, February 2007
• B2 mandatory at Jan/2008 (850,000 ton/year)
• B5 mandatory at Jan/2010 (2013, originaly)
Now:
• 10 biodiesel plants working (500,000 ton/year)
• 2,000 gas stations providing B2
• Some transportation companies using B30
• Projects: More than 100 new biodiesel plants
LOW FEDERAL TAXES FOR SOCIAL PROJECTS AND POOR REGIONS
Soybean Biodiesel (Output/input energy ~ 3)*
Biodiversity?
Rainforests?
Fossil driven!
* Donato Aranda, Royal Engineering Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, 2007
Biodiesel from palm oil?
Rainforests are cut down
Emissions to
- Air
- Water
- Soil
Agriculture
Resources
- Raw material
- Energy
- Land
Refinement
Waste
Life Cycle
analysis
Transport
Consumption
Retail
Nitrogen emissions
Nitrogen from fertilizers is converted by microbes to nitrous oxide N2O.
N2O has a 300 times greater Greenhouse forcing than CO2.
IPCC assumes 2 % of nitrogen converted to nitrous oxide.
Paul Crutzen et al finds atmosheric pre-industrial N2O value from ice cores.
Subtracting from the present atmospheric N2O value gives 3-5 %.
Conclusion is that for ethanol from corn and rapeseed, the relative
warming due to N2O emission offsets the CO2 saving from the fuel.
Biomass
550 – 835 Gton C
CO2
20 % of photo synthetic
bound carbon transported
to the soil
78 Gton C after 1850
26-28 % of total anthropogenic CO2
originates from aral land!
Land breathing
Carbon soil content
1200 – 2200 Gton C
After Bengt Lundegårdh
Global agricultural production
Global agriculture products in 2005
UN Food and Agriculture Statistics Global Oulook
• Cereals
• Meat
• Fruits/Vegetables
• Roots/Tubers
• Pulses
• Oilseeds/Nuts
• Sugar Crops
• Tobacco
• Fibre Crops
2,228 million tonnes
265 million tonnes
1,392 million tonnes
712 million tonnes
62 million tonnes
146 million tonnes
1,532 million tonnes
7 million tonnes
29 million tonnes
6,373 million tonnes
 1 ton/capita
Energy of all this biomass?
16 000 tera watt hours (TWh)
Global energy supply 2005
Total energy production = 125 000 TWh
100%
Fossil energy production = 100 000 TWh
80%
All agriculture products
13%
= 16 000 TWh
Food for 6.6 billion people 
5 800 TWh*)
5%
High productivity of agriculture products requires cultivation
with minimum emissions to the environment!
Forests in the world
World´s forests
Source UN-FAO
• 4109 hectars forests (30% of surface)
• 7.3 106 hectars disappearing each year
• In Africa 90% of all wood produced is burnt
• 75% of bioenergy comes from forests
• Bioenergy represents 80% of renewable energy
1 km2 = 100 hectars (ha)
Change of growing forest stock
[Mm3]
Country
Growing stock
Change/year
Brazil
812 000
-700
China
13 200
+181
3155
+24
Sweden
Nordic forests
Sweden
Norway
Finland
Denmark
Forest portion of land
50%
20%
68%
10%
Forest stock (5109 m3)*
50%
13%
36%
1%
Growth/year (210106 m3) **
47%
12%
40%
2%
* USA+Canada
44109 m3
* European Union 13109 m3
** Germany
90106 m3
Sweden has a zero net emission of CO2!
Sweden’s energy supply 1970 - 2005
Nuclear
Hydro
Bioenergy
Coal
Oil
SWEDISH C/CO2 EMISSIONS
Emissions: mega tonnes
1970  95 Mt CO2
1990  56 Mt CO2
Remember 56 Mt
Bioenergy in Sweden
Bioenergy in Sweden 2004
TWh
TWh
Forest
Heat
92
Agriculture 4
90
Electricity 10
108 TWh
Peat
4
Ethanol
2
Waste
8
Losses
6
STEM statistics elaborated by Harry Frank
Forests – the major driver of Swedish Economy
Skogen, grundbult i svensk välfärd
36% pulp and paper
46% pulp wood
Pulp and paper mills
23% energy
and heat
15% chips
20% wood
46% saw timber
Saw mills and board industry
8% bark and
sawdust
16% energy and heat
8% firewood
Heat production
Forest biomass yield, Sweden, 2004
Per-Olov Nilsson, Report 23, 2006, Skogsstyrelsen
19%
21%
26 %
34%
75.9 Mt  380TWh
Use of Swedish forest growth, 2004
Energy generation
21%
Industrial products
26%
Increase of
forest inventory
19%
Residues left
34%
76 Mt
Rapport 23 -2006
Per-Olov Nilsson
Skogsstyrelsen
380 TWh
Fellings 61 Mt
Annual growth and fellings, Swedish forests
Mil. m3sk (forest cubic metres)
125
100
Growth
75
50
Fellings
25
0
1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000
Forest sequestration 1990 was 55 Mt (35 Mm3)
Fossil fuel CO2 emissions was 56 Mt
Sweden had zero net emission 1990!
Källa: Riksskogstaxeringen, Skogsstyrelsen
Biopower plant
(During 2005 biopower provided 10 TWh bioenergyin Sweden,1/3 electricity )
• Started operation in 2000
• Building cost 55 Meuros
• 0.18 TWh electricity/year
• 0.33 TWh heat
Eskilstuna biopower plant
provides electricity and heat
• 60 trucks firewood/day
Two Swedish biofuel alternatives
• Ethanol from fermentation of grain or wood including
more efficient technologies with enzymes or improved
yeast grades*
• Production of Synthesis gas, Hydrogen and Carbon
monoxide in the right proportions for the subsequent
processes (normally well known processes)
*) In Norrköping there is ethanol production from wheat providing 20% of Swedish needs
2:nd generation biofuels
-Three Swedish Pilot Plants
• Ethanol from cellulose by fermentation,Örnsköldsvik.
• Biofuels or electricity from black liquor gasification, Piteå.
• Synthesis gas from biomass for future biofuels, Värnamo.
The objective is to get a production facility within the next 10 years
CHEMREC’S DP-1 facility in PITEÅ for
Black Liquor Gasification
An arctic circle facility
Black Liquor Gasification - General
Scheme
Oxygen
Air
separation
Steam
Power
Gasification
Black liquor
and
Weak wash
Sulphur Management
Rawgas
Gas
cooling
White liquor
Quench
LS Green liq.
Poly Sulph.
Gas Purification
Synthesis gas
Combined
Cycle
Power & Steam
or
Synthesis- and
Distillation
or
DME/Methanol
Courtesy: Christer Sjölin
Conclusions on Swedish Ethanol production
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Ethanol production from primary biomass is not energy efficient
Technology breakthrough is needed even for second generation fuels
Domestic production is more than twice as expensive as import
A substantial competition for the raw material, wood, will take place,
especially if Europe will follow the ethanol route
Black liquor gasification (BLGCC)
Conclusions:
- Only a smaller portion of the Swedish demand of fuels can be
produced from BLGCC probably at high costs and the raw
material is in competition with other use.
- It is much more likely that electric power production is the best
use of the BLGCC technology. The Industry needs all electric
power sources which it can get for reasonable power prices in
the future.
Fertilisers
Fertiliser research
• The Flakaliden experimental site (8 ha) is situated 60 km west of Umeå
• In 1986 started studies of the growth optimisation of a boreal coniferous forest
• Irrigation and fertilisers. Initially 100 kg N/ha + other nutrients (P,K,Ca,S,Mg)
• Project leader: Professor Sune Linder
Flakaliden 10 years after start of experiment
Stem growth after fertilisation
Sune Linder, Flakaliden experiment
Current growth rate, m3/ha/year
After Sune Linder
Possible increase of growth
After Sune Linder
Pine plants grow better with amino acids
than with a conventional N fertiliser
Amino acid fertiliser
Courtesy Torgny Näsholm
Conventional N fertiliser
Increased growth after planting
Weight
per
plant
in grams
Amino acid fertiliser
Courtesy Torgny Näsholm
Conventional N fertiliser
Conclusions
globally
Bioenergy now provides ~ 13 000TWh/a
International Energy Agency (IEA)estimates in their
most pessimistic scenario that bioenergy may be
doubled, from reidues in forestry and agriculture.
A realistic assumption in my opinion.
In their most optimistic scenario with intense
cultivation on good soils the potential is 306 000 TWh?
Completely unrealistic.
But:
Biodiversity and climate must not be jeopardized,
agricultural land needed for food.
Energy Committee’s statements on bioenergy
November 28, 2007
• World’s agricultural products must meet the increasing demands for food
rather than being used for biofuels.
• World’s forest cuttings must not exceed the forest growth in order to
protect biodiversity and climate.
• It should be possible to double the global bioenergy production, currently
13 000 TWh/a, primarily by using residues from agriculture and forestry.
• Swedish annual bioenergy production being now 100 TWh may increase
by 40 %. In the long run additional 20 % from intensified production.