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Biomethane: the Italian way

for sustainable mobility

Lorenzo Maggioni, R&D CIB

Gothenburg, May 17-19, 2017

Consorzio Italiano Biogas

(Italian Biogas Consortium)

The CIB - Italian Biogas Consortium, formed in March 2009, has national coverage

and is the reference point in the Italian biogas and biomethane sector.

European projects

MEMBERS

Agricultural biogas plants

> 600

130 companies

• Current and coming regulations

• State of the art

CONTENTS

Gothenburg, May 17-19, 2017 Lorenzo Maggioni [email protected]

• Potential developments

• The Italian way: biogasdonerightTM

• Conclusions

flexible input material, flexible sale options, storable,

efficient, tailored to demand, climate-friendly


• Biomethane has very low emissions

• Car engines are less noisy

• In Italy, not new distribution

infrastructure needed. Natural gas

grids are available

• Biomethane can be blended at any

ratio with natural gas

• Thanks to “biogasdoneright®” model,

it does not compete with food and

can be produced in your own country

• LBM has better quality than (most)

fossil LNG.

• LBM is cleaner and cheaper than

other biofuels per energy unit

Why using biomethane like a sustainable fuel?

• 2nd European market after Germany

• > 4 Billion € invested in the last 6 years

• > 1.700 biogas plants built (agriculture

+ sewage + waste + industrial).

• > 1.300 MWel

• About 3 billion Nm3 Biomethane

equivalent utilized per year

• 12.000 qualified green jobs created

thanks to biogas

STATE OF THE ART Biogas in Italy

(for the moment biogas used

only for electricity production!)


STATE OF THE ART Biomethane in Italy


• 20 new plants already authorized;

size: 250 – 2.000 m3 biomethane /h

• 1 plant 3.750 m3 biomethane /h

already built and ready to start

• 10 projects for LBM

• Feedstock: actually > Organic

Fraction Municipal Solid Waste

• 7 existent biomethane plants

• Size: 50 – 100 m3 biomethane /h

• Not connected to the natural gas

grids. Demonstrative projects

• Cooperative “Assegnatari Associati Arborea - 3A”,

founded in 1956, with 248 shareholders owning farms

with milk production. 50,000 head of Friesian and Brown

Swiss cows.

• In Sardinia there are not natural gas grids and not NGV,

they are already using LNG (100 m3 storage at the milk

factory in Arborea) with a 1 MWel and 1,2 MWth CHP

• PROJECT: ~4,5 t LBM/d, using ~335 m3 manure / day;

construction of bio-LCNG filling stations

• The LBM and the bio-CNG will be used to refuel

company trucks and vehicles of other companies

• If there were problems with the use of LBM in the

transport sector, it can replace LNG

• Total investment for the construction of the plant

(anaerobic digestion, LBM production, distribution

and LBM digestate treatment): ~ 12 million Euro


STATE OF THE ART Project of Cooperativa 3A

Case

stu

dy 1

• Total area: 343.000 m2 (200.000 m2 covered)

Total flows in / out: 800.000 t / y (35.000

trucks/y)

• Electric Consumption : MWhel 30,000 / year

• Steam Consumption: 150,000 t / year

The project:

8 million m3/y biomethane (gaseus)

8 million m3/y LBM


STATE OF THE ART Project of CAVIRO

Case

stu

dy 2

• An investment in the

biomethane sector of 42

million euro, spread over 5

years

• 4.500 m3 biomethane / h

(LBM + bioCNG) already

authorized

• > 150 natural CNG and LNG

trucks for the collection and

transport of waste

http://www.sesaeste.it/dett_news.php?id_news=568


Based in Veneto region, S.E.S.A. (Società

Estense Servizi Ambientali S.p.A.) is one of the

most important Italian companies involved in

the activities of recycling, recovery, disposal

and transportation of waste.

STATE OF THE ART Project of SESA

Case

stu

dy 3


STATE OF THE ART Alternative fuels

~ 1.100 NG filling station;

> 1 B Nm3 NG / y

In Italy (January 2017) ~ 43,2 M

vehicles

NGV

~1,005 M (=2,6% on the

total)

LPG

vehicles

~2,260 M (= 5,2% on the

total)

e-mobility

~0,132 M** (=0,3% on the

total) **including hybrid

cars Author’s elaboration from data by www.aci.it

STATE OF THE ART LNG and LBM in Italy

• 8 L-CNG filling station* (> in the North of Italy)

• 6 LNG filling station*

• 20 new LNG or LCNG station in the process of authorization

• > 500 LNG trucks

L-CNG LNG filling station –

Piacenza

(70 trucks/d 10 t/d)

* > LNG from Barcelona terminal

Fleet of 40 LNG trucks LNG filling station

Gera Lario


• Potential replacement of traditional fuels with 10% of LNG (up to 20% in an

optimistic scenario) or LBM.

• In Italy LNG and LBM will cover a market volume of 3.2 Mton.

HEAVY TRANSPORT: POSSIBLE SCENARIO IN 2030

CURRENT AND COMING

REGULATIONS


Entry into force (art. 9 of the Decree) :

18 december 2013

Duration: upgrading plants that will be in service by

17 december 2018

CURRENT Decree 05 December 2013

CURRENT AND COMING REGULATIONS

NEW Summer 2017


Organic

Fraction

Municipal

Solid Waste

Agriculture

CURRENT Decree 05 December 2013

NEW

The same + methanation


CURRENT AND COMING REGULATIONS

Summer 2017

Better chance for

LBM than in the old

decree NOW WE HAVE ALL THE TECHNICAL

RULES NEEDED FOR BIOMETHANE

PRODUCTION

DIFFERENT SCENARIOS DEPENDING ON

FINAL USE OF BIOMETHANE

1) Biomethane injected into the natural gas grids

2) Biomethane used in high efficiency cogeneration

plants

3) Biomethane used in transport sector

1) Biomethane injected into the natural gas grids

2) Biomethane used in high efficiency cogeneration

plants

3) Biomethane used in transport sector

More interesting subsidies if you

produce “advanced biomethane”


CURRENT REGULATION Decree 10 ottobre 2014

• Algae if cultivated

on land in ponds or

photobioreactors

• Biomass fraction of

mixed municipal

waste

• Bio-waste

• Biomass fraction of

industrial waste not

fit for use in the food

or feed chain

• Straw

• Animal manure and

sewage sludge

• Etc.

The definition is

related to the

use of a short

list of feedstock

Advanced

Biofuels

16

In 2018 it means ~225 Mm3 biomethane (compressed or liquified)

ADVANCED BIOFUELS MANDATE

biofuels Advanced biofuels


(actually 92% = biodiesel. Only 5% made in Italy)

CURRENT REGULATION Decree 10 ottobre 2014

The Italian

way:


BIOMASS

• Livestock effluents

• Agroresidues and agrowastes

• Cover crops before or after

cash crops

• Food or perennial crops to

revegetate abandoned lands

(Cactaceae, alfalfa, perpetual

meadows, etc.)

THE ITALIAN WAY BIOGASDONERIGHT ®


Legend:

CRP = crops

MAN = manure

BYPR = by products

Pacengo (VR), May 22-23, 2017 Lorenzo Maggioni [email protected]

(peer-reviewed study not yet

published)

Due to the better biogas conversion efficiency

and to the used biomass, «Biogasdoneright» is

able to create carbon negative bioenergy system


POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT



a flexible, distributed multipurpose plant

POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT Biogas refinery

According to Italian Biogas Consortium a realistic development plan of

methane/biomethane within 2020 should include:

POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT


Biomethane in Italy

• doubling NG service stations to 2000;

• Doubling current consumption of CNG (for transport sector) up to 2 Billion Nm3 by

2020 (using preferably LNG) ;

• Increasing biomethane consumption up to 25% of the total consumption, about 0,5

Billion Nm3/year (bio-CNG or bio-LNG)

CONCLUSIONS

• In Italy biomethane, thanks also to the Biogasdoneright

model, could be a very important advanced bio-fuel. It could

contribute to achieve the climate targets thanks to the

reduction of CO2 eq emissions, it increases security of supply

and Italian energy independence from other countries

• In Italy biomethane has an enormous potential (maximum

technical potential of 8 billion m3 bioCH4 / y)

• THE ITALIAN MARKET IS READY TO START!

• We are looking for NANO-LNG technologies and we are

very interested to participate in EU projects (H2020, etc)


Thanks for

you attention!

CIB

Consorzio Italiano Biogas e Gassificazione

[email protected]

P.IVA: 09248721004

c/o Parco Tecnologico Padano

Via Einstein,

Loc. Cascina Codazza

Lodi (LO)

[email protected]

Lorenzo Maggioni


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