12.02.2013
The Danish science park, Agro Business Park and the DanishInnovation Network for Biomass, have launched a new pamphlet with focuson status, technologies and innovation in Denmark regarding livestockmanure to energy.
The Danish situation with a livestockdensity among the highest in the world, combined with being surroundedby vulnerable nature such as the Baltic Sea, has promoted a situationwith considerable competence when it comes to innovative technologiesfor handling of livestock manure in an environmentally safe way. Thegrowing awareness of resource depletion and climate challenges hasfurthermore clarified the huge potentials for reducing greenhouse gasemissions from the livestock manure via exploiting its energy content.Already today, around one fifth of all Danish pig and dairy farmers areinvolved in livestock manure based biogas production, most of them viafarmer cooperative owned industrial size biogas plants.
The pamphlet aims to provide a general overview of Danishstate-of-the-art technologies and competences in the supply chain fromlivestock manure to energy, and explain some major contextual policies,legislation and framework conditions. It also holds a quick referenceguide to the related technology suppliers and other companies andinstitutions with competences in the supply chain. The pamphlet isintended for anybody with interest in innovative ways to handle currentchallenges to reduce the environmental and climatic impacts of livestockfarming, while in the same time increase the renewable energyproduction and the demand for animal products from a growing population.
Click here to read the pamphlet.