Energy from farming

The energetic use of biomass has much potential world-wide and can get an important share in European energy supply as well.

There are different types of biomass. One is "bio-garbage" coming from our households. It is especially suited for gasification: In an accelerated process of putrefaction methane is produced, which can be used directly to generate electric power. When required also hydrogen can be produced from methane.

All sorts of organic waste from agriculture and forestry are also forms of biomass and there are different technologies and methods to utilise them. As pellets it can be used in modern biomass-ovens to generate heat but of course also cogeneration is possible.

This type of biomass together with plants especially cultivated for this purpose can be converted to hydrogen in a biomass-reformer. In this process a lot of carbon dioxide is produced but only as much as has been absorbed from air by the plants before.

Part of the hydrogen which is needed for fuel cell cars and residential fuel cell systems could in future be produced by agriculture.

Bio mass pellets for burning in
combined heat and power stations (CHP)

Power station for pellets