Oolderink, Maarten (2020) Farming Cooperation: A pathway to self-sufficiency in terms of energy use. Master's Research Project 1, Energy and Environmental Sciences.
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Abstract
Worldwide, amongst others, there are two major pressing issues regarding sustainability. On the one hand, there is the global wide-spread use of finite fossil energy, and on the other hand there is the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG’s) such as CO2 and CH4. Within the aforementioned context, agriculture is a substantial consumer of fossil energy, and therefore contributes to both the depletion of fossil resources as well as the emission of GHG. The aforementioned will have a substantial negative impact on specific local ecosystems, as well as the climate as a whole. One of the technologies that is suggested as helpful to provide more renewable energy in the farming sector, is Anaerobic Digestion (AD). AD is already a proven technology, and the technology can harvest energy from several biomass sources, to produce biogas. A previous investigation by Pierie et. al suggests that, in a theoretical farming cooperation (consisting of 12 farms) case, there is more than sufficient biogas to fulfil the cooperation’s energy demand, but this study was conducted on a yearly basis. In this investigation, a study is conducted on an hourly basis and also using other renewable energy sources.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master's Research Project 1) |
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| Supervisor name: | Pierie, F. |
| Degree programme: | Energy and Environmental Sciences |
| Thesis type: | Master's Research Project 1 |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Sep 2020 09:24 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Sep 2020 09:24 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/23375 |
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