Date: Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Time: 11:45 - 12:45 CEST
Session code 1BV.3
Biomass resource assessment, mobilisation, and microalgae production and processing
Selection of Potential Energy Crops in Marginal Soils of Mainland Portugal
Short Introductive summary
Energy crops are industrial species (woody, perennial, and annual species, algae, among others) that can generate biofuels, energy, and bioproducts. Due to their tolerance, there is an interest to grow energy crops in marginal, contaminated, and degraded soils, avoiding Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) burdens. Therefore, this work aims to study a list of fifteen species and subsequently to select three to four to be further cultivated in marginal soils of mainland Portugal. This selection was performed through the Binary Multiple Decision Method (BMDM), a developed decision support system (DSS). The following information was collected for each crop: binomial name, productivity, growth rate (life span in years and height in meters), harvest date (month of the year), and limit conditions for growth, such as precipitation requirements (mm), altitude (m), temperature (ºC), land steepness (%), soil pH, and other climate/soil limitations. After, the additional information was also collected, viability in marginal lands, viability in contaminated soils, and number of conversion processes that could be applied.
Presenter
Mariana ABREU
NOVA School of Science and Technology
Presenter's biography
Mariana Abreu, Chemical Engineering with a master's degree in Energy and Bioenergy, and Ph.D. Student in Bioenergy at NOVA School of Science and Technology. Currently, she is a Ph.D. fellow (2020.06236.BD) whose Project is financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P (FCT).
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Co-authors:
A.L. Fernando, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Caparica, PORTUGAL
A. Monti, Alma Mater Studiorum/Università di Bologna, ITALY
A. Reis, LNEG- National Laboratory of Energy and Geology, I.P., Lisbon, PORTUGAL
Session reference: 1BV.3.1