ENERGY CONVERSION OF RESIDUES
Framework of the project
The project was admitted in the Cross-Border Cooperation Program Italy-Tunisia 2007-2013, given its contribution to its global goal of promoting economic, social, institutional, and cultural cooperation between the Tunisian and Sicilian regions,while fully affecting the program’s objective concerning the development of renewable energies.
The project aimed to establish a cogeneration unit for the conversion of agricultural waste (animal manure and other biomass), create an evolving GIS database on the current and potential status of biomass residue production in the concerned territories (Beja and Sicily). This database evaluated the availability of other sources that could be destined to energy production. The project also provided for the preparation of protocols and guidelines based on international standards such as ISO 14001 and ISO 50001.
The project’s consortium was composed of four Tunisian partners and four Italian partners.
Characteristics of the project:
• Establishment of a waste-to-energy plant at the Beja farm, and the decentralized production of electricity from renewable sources (it couldn’t be achieved due to the unavailability of funds);
• Improvement of environment quality and working conditions;
• Estimation of the amount of biomass, definition of the waste types, physico-chemical characterization of the waste and its energy potential by biomethanization;
• Creation of a GIS database on the amounts produced in the cross-border territories being considered, identification of the current biomass waste treatment/disposal system;
• Isolation and characterization of the microorganisms responsible for all the anaerobic processes; performance analysis of the different biomass mixes in order to improve the effectiveness of biogas production;
• Definition of experimental protocols for monitoring the processes involved;
• Implementation of environmental management systems and application of LCA (Life-Cycle Assessment);
• Definition of protocols for energy efficiency in compliance with the ISO 50001 standard on energy management;
• Implementation of Environmental Management Systems (EMS) that are compliant with the ISO 14001 standard for the agricultural sector;
• Organization of promotional events (seminars, workshops, and awareness activities on the environmental and energy stakes).
Partners: Tunisia and Italy
Funding: European Union
Duration of the project: from February 20, 2013 to September 30, 2016.
The project was admitted in the Cross-Border Cooperation Program Italy-Tunisia 2007-2013, given its contribution to its global goal of promoting economic, social, institutional, and cultural cooperation between the Tunisian and Sicilian regions,while fully affecting the program’s objective concerning the development of renewable energies.
The project aimed to establish a cogeneration unit for the conversion of agricultural waste (animal manure and other biomass), create an evolving GIS database on the current and potential status of biomass residue production in the concerned territories (Beja and Sicily). This database evaluated the availability of other sources that could be destined to energy production. The project also provided for the preparation of protocols and guidelines based on international standards such as ISO 14001 and ISO 50001.
The project’s consortium was composed of four Tunisian partners and four Italian partners.
Characteristics of the project:
• Establishment of a waste-to-energy plant at the Beja farm, and the decentralized production of electricity from renewable sources (it couldn’t be achieved due to the unavailability of funds);
• Improvement of environment quality and working conditions;
• Estimation of the amount of biomass, definition of the waste types, physico-chemical characterization of the waste and its energy potential by biomethanization;
• Creation of a GIS database on the amounts produced in the cross-border territories being considered, identification of the current biomass waste treatment/disposal system;
• Isolation and characterization of the microorganisms responsible for all the anaerobic processes; performance analysis of the different biomass mixes in order to improve the effectiveness of biogas production;
• Definition of experimental protocols for monitoring the processes involved;
• Implementation of environmental management systems and application of LCA (Life-Cycle Assessment);
• Definition of protocols for energy efficiency in compliance with the ISO 50001 standard on energy management;
• Implementation of Environmental Management Systems (EMS) that are compliant with the ISO 14001 standard for the agricultural sector;
• Organization of promotional events (seminars, workshops, and awareness activities on the environmental and energy stakes).
Partners: Tunisia and Italy
Funding: European Union
Duration of the project: from February 20, 2013 to September 30, 2016.
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