931107 Energy from agricultural and forestry raw materials
- Type
- Lecture
- Semester hours
- 3
- Lecturer (assistant)
- Kral, Iris , Bauer, Alexander , Pfeifer, Christoph , Pröll, Tobias , Gronauer, Andreas , Stampfer, Karl , Branco, Alina
- Organisation
- Offered in
- Wintersemester 2023/24
- Languages of instruction
- Deutsch
- Content
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Agricultural energy plant production: Competition for agricultural acreages, energy balances, energy plants.
Importance of wood for energy supplying; energy wood produce and influence of situation; measurement methods for energy wood.
Energetical utilizable microbial transformations; biogas; substrates; technical plants for biogas production.
Principles of wood-biomass combustion; combustion engines for liquid and gaseous biomass fuels; principle of stirling engine; function principles of gas- and steam turbine engines, ORC-engines; steam piston engines; fuel cells.
Cost accounting for forestry wood chips production; cost accounting for biogas plants; profitability of cultivating raw material-plants on fallow lands.
- Previous knowledge expected
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- Objective (expected results of study and acquired competences)
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Understanding of possibilities and limits of agricultural energy-plant production; knowledge about potentials and limiting factors of energy wood production in austria; obtaining a general view over possibilities of microbial energy transformation, especially methanization of organic residual materials; familiarity with technical basics of energy transformation; understanding of profitability assessment of energy production from agricultural and forestry raw materials.
You can find more details like the schedule or information about exams on the course-page in BOKUonline.