Objective
Agricultural residues could represent a good source of biomass to convert into energy in particular wherever it is impractical to convert cropland to energy crop cultivation . According to FAO’s reportage (1997) , large quantities of ligneous biomass can be obtained from pruning operations carried out in Mediterranean fruit plantations. Agricultural residues therefore play an important role in any analysis of biomass availability for a specific area. For this reason it is important to conduct a thorough study of the types of permanent crops in Europe and the potential of biomass obtained by its pruning.
There is a big potential market in pruning residues, mainly power generation but not only. Nowadays these types of residues are just taken apart from the filed and used locally, “Leaving on the ground” a potential profitable business for farmers, logistic companies and final users. Nowadays the pruning means just a cost for the farmers, but with a new implemented logistic chain they could take advantage in order to sell this product in the biomass market and providing a new business model for logistic operators, biomass sellers and final users, which could find a bigger amount of resources and a decreasing of the costs. It already exists and implemented and developed logistic chain for straw residues, but there is not for pruning.
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Call for proposal
FP7-KBBE-2012-6-singlestage
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50018 Zaragoza
Spain
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Participants (17)
750 07 Uppsala
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14469 Potsdam
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00184 Roma
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50-375 Wroclaw
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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28003 Madrid
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22520 FRAGA HUESCA
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60-963 Poznan
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50016 ZARAGOZA
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48014 CASTEL BOLOGNESE (RA)
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72622 NURTIGEN
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S-56123 HUSKVARNA
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75011 Paris
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14476 POTSDAM OT SATZKORN
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50014 Zaragoza
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33340 GAILLAN EN MEDOC
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75011 Paris
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