Friday 9 June | 8.30-14.00
Departure and return from Bologna Congress Centre (travel by bus)
EUBCE Technical Tour 1
The city of Bologna is conveniently located in the Po Valley, one of the most productive agro-industrial areas in Italy and in Europe.
We know you have been waiting a long time for the EUBCE technical tour, in the last few months we have worked intensively to design a visit to make you experience both the essence of Italian tradition and innovation, and in this technical tour you will have the opportunity to discover two great examples of this. We are happy to share with you more details below. Thank you for your patience!
In the first part of the tour you will visit an innovative cooperative farm that combines traditional crops with medicinal plant production and with the efficient use of heat and power generated from its own biogas plant. In the second part you will also visit the experimental farm of the University of Bologna, where you will be able to see many examples of innovative agronomic solutions, crops species and farming systems, including biomass and food crops integrated into a traditional model farm of this area.
Part 1
BIOGASDONERIGHT® and medicinal plants production
In collaboration with CIB the Italian Biogas Consortium
We will visit the AGRIBIOENERGIA Cooperative Farm, located just a few kilometers outside of Bologna city.
Founded in 2005, this cooperative farm manages almost 2,000 Ha of cropland, producing vegetables, fruits, cereals, forages, and medicinal aromatic plants. After an evolution driven by years of R&D investments, in 2010 the farm introduced a 1MWe biogas plant that nowadays produces 8 million kWh of electricity and over 8 million KWh of heat annually. The heat is used both for heating and for the drying of the medicinal plants. An extraordinary example of circular economy and of application of the BIOGASDONERIGHT® model.
Find out more in this video:
Part 2
Biomass crops and innovative cropping systems at the Experimental Farm of the University of Bologna
In collaboration with the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences of the University of Bologna
The University of Bologna Experimental Farm was established in 1974 and was designed to support research and experiments conducted by departments of the Bologna University School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine.In particular, the Cadriano Centre is where most of the experimental activities of the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences take place, as well as the trials of external agri-food companies, (producers of fertilizers, seeds, phytosanitary products) and mechanization trials.The activities are conducted both in open fields and in controlled greenhouses.
Some of the longest established trials here were established over 40 years ago and are still ongoing.You will be able to visit long-established plantations of lignocellulosic crops (miscanthus, giant reed, switchgrass etc.) as well as multi-year rotational trials of annual biomass crops and food crops, cultivated with intercropping, relay cropping and other innovative farming systems.
Friday 9 June | 8.30-14.00
Departure and return from Bologna Congress Centre (travel by bus)
EUBCE Technical Tour 2 - New!
Register hereRE-CORD facilities
Organised by RE-CORD | Renewable Energy Consortium for Research and Demonstration
In collaboration with ETA Florence Renewable Energies
(RE-CORD Consortium Member)
RE-CORD is a private-public nonprofit Research & Development organization founded in 2010 that groups together its members resources (know-how, networks, plants, laboratory and other facilities) in a single body able to catch opportunities quickly and efficiently in the field of renewable energies, biomass, bioenergy and bioeconomy.
RE-CORD facilities in Scarperia include an analytical laboratory for biomass, biochar, biofuels and soil characterization, and a 900 m2 experimental area (REC PARK) that hosts most of the pilot units owned and operated by RE-CORD.
These include an indirectly-fired rotary kiln for slow pyrolysis with a capacity up to 100 kg/h of wood chip, a slow/intermediate auger reactor (up to 3 -4 kg/h), a continuous hydrothermal liquefaction unit (2 l/h of slurry), 1 m3 anaerobic digestor and a batch char leaching unit.
During the visit it will be possible to tour both facilities, and have a in-depth look at the pilot plants.
General conditions of participation
The price for the tour is EUR 20,00.
Spaces are limited and will be allocated to EUBCE delegates on a first come – first served basis.
For information please write to registration@etaflorence.it
The organiser reserves the right to cancel the tour in case of an insufficient number of participants, organisational reasons, force majeure or other unforeseeable events that render the execution of the tour impossible. The organiser shall immediately inform participants of such changes. Should the tour be cancelled by the organiser for the above cited reasons, the organiser will refund the technical tour registration fee in full. Claims for further liabilities or damages are excluded.