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Waste and by-products transform into energy and reduce Skånefrö’s discharge of carbon dioxide with 540 tonnes a year. In the very south of Sweden, in Tommarp, an EU-project is being in progress, where Skånefrö together with their partner HOTAB exchanges all oil- and electricity heating for a renewable alternative that in addition gives an energy surplus.

This is made in a cooperation with ÄFAB and Chalmers, through the start up-company Ecoera Biofuel Engineering. The BIOAGRO project coordinates research, development, testing and demonstration in a unique interplay where low qualitative products from the agricultural land become useful energy.

“Already today there is a very large unexploited resource of raw materials from the agriculture sector, that hasn’t been fully exploited as an asset for renewable energy.” These words were presented by Sven-Olof Bernhoff, MD of Skånefrö and project leader of the BIOAGRO-project, at a press conference that marked the start of the building, the 2nd of April 2007.

To the left, Project leader Sven- Olof Bernhoff followed by partner Gert Tarstad, HOTAB, Bengt- Erik Löfgren, ÄFAB and David Andersson, Ecoera.

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»	News articles

	Here you can read the newspaper articles that concern the project. All the articles are in PDF-format. The majority of them are in Swedish and will not be translated into other languages.

»	Picture gallery

	During the proceeding of the project we gather pictures in a photo gallery for future reference. This library is being updated regularly and follows the project development step by step.


Task 1 - 7 / 2006- 2009 »

»	What is going on with the project?

Since the first seed was cleared in July the BIOAGRO-facility has been tested and trimmed both when it comes to the boilers and the pellets facility. During the trial run we are adjusting and optimizing the pellets facility and boilers gradually, thus enabling us to obtain new experiences. Now as we are able to produce our own environmental friendly pellets, which are being used instead of oil and electricity for heating, we are dramatically decreasing the carbon dioxide emissions and thereby fulfilling a part of the goals for our EU-project. Skånefrö is in the middle of a busy fall season as we are drying and clearing grains, and it feels great that we are able to dry the seeds with our homemade environmental friendly pellets instead of oil.

The boiler facilities are preassembled and a trial period with different agro fuel is now starting. During the first phase there will be a period of trimming in order to get balance in feeding of fuel, drying, gasifying and end combustion to minimize ash fusion and sintering, which easily can emerge. Subsequently there will be a trial period with combustion of different mixes of agro fuel first without and then with different additives. This trial period is performed during one year and will be finalized the summer of 2009.


Ecoera is now working on expanding the sourcing for additives based on starch and cellulose.


ÄFAB has started to try out the pellet to see how it works with the combustion equipment.

»	News/information:

A versatile solution? Growing Miscanthus for bioenergy
2008- 08- 11

The need for a rapid reduction in greenhouse gases is well known, and bioenergy is one of the possible solutions. The new perennial grass crop Miscanthus is particularly promising for bioenergy, as it is hardy, fast growing and efficient in its use of water. Jonathan Harvey reviews the technical and commercial progress, and future prospects, for the crop.

Evergreen BioFuels USA Announces Agreement with Show Me Energy Cooperative to Engineer and Manage Largest Agro-Biomass Pellet Fuel Plant in North America
2008- 08- 11

Operational in Early 2008, 100,000 ton Pellet Fuel Production Will be Co-Fired With Coal to Reduce Carbon Emissions and Meet the Heating.

Biopact, RAB: biomass now the key renewable energy source, as backlash against wind and solar grows
2008- 07- 29

Biomass energy is increasingly touted as the key renewable in the push to green Europe's electricity supplies, says David Williams, chairman of the UK government's Renewables Advisory Board's (RAB) biomass sub-group. This is so because biomass shows the best economic and CO2-abatement performance of all the renewables, because it can be transported and traded globally, and because it is far more reliable than intermittent sources.

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