BioMet2020
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FEFTS Specifications
Research project
for Energy efficiency improvement
Suitable for
Efficient vehicle
Special type
Biomethane usage as fuel for vehicles
Agricultural domain
Open-field agriculture, Livestock, Greenhouses
Suitable for
Farmer, Policy makers, Companies
Applications
Vehicles
Especially
Biogas/biomethane tractors
Type of solution
Methodology, Procedure, Complete solution
Details
Project`s acronym: BioMet2020
Project funding type: National
Project funding source: Other
Project coordinator: Petri Soderena
Coordinator location: Finland
Coordinator email / Contact form: kirjaamo@businessfinland.fi
Project status: Finished
Additional info
BioMet2020 was a joint research project funded by Business Finalnd and focused on reducing the obstacles from biomethane usage as fuel for vehicles by performing research on three different areas :
• Research and develop further a novel biogas upgrading concept developed at VTT
• Research the performance and potentiality of bi-fuel ethanol-methane spark-ignition (SI) heavy-duty engine for NRMM applications
• Perform a literature review of different storage methods formethane in intermediate and vehicular storage
Storage review showed that new technology for compressed methane storage is under development. New high pressure technologies allow up to 30 % higher energy content at 250bar. Adsorbed natural gas storage technologies have demonstrated at 50 bar (MOF) and 100 (AC) bar similar storage capacity as traditional high pressure vessel at 250 bar.
Developed spark-ignition bi-fuel methane-ethanol engine showed great potentiality against the Stage V legislative limit values. Low gaseous emissions were demonstrated with all fuel options: NG, ethanol, DF50 mode and E85. NOx emissions under 10 mg/kWh was achieved in many NRSC and full load test points. Thermal efficiency around 37% was achieved with methane in multiple full load test points. Results showed that further optimization of engine components and ECU calibration would offer lower emissions and higher efficiency.
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Assessment
This section contains a brief assessment of the FEFTS described.
There are 3 basic categories: General, Environmental and Socioeconomic assessment.
The purpose of this assessment is to give a quick overview to the potential FEFTS user of its application benefits.
For each question, the Likert scale is used with the following possible answers:
Strongly disagree, Disagree, Neither agree nor disagree (Neutral)/non applicable, Agree, Strongly agree
General
This FEFTS contributes to improve the energy profiles of farming systems:Environmental
The application of this FEFTS directly reduces fossil energy use, in terms of:- Tractors and vehicles fuel consumption
Socioeconomic
The application of this FEFTS contributes to cost reductions of farming systems:Keep in mind that this assessment is subjective, based on publicly available information.
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