SI.RE.JA.

Financed by: POR CALABRIA FESR 2007/2013
Period: April 2014- Dec 2015

Introduction

The proposal is focused on the energy use of biomass present in the regional territory, widely spread and not completely used for production purposes, and includes three innovative technologies, two of which with high conversion efficiency, anaerobic digestion ("wet" and " dry ") and pyro gasification, and an extraction of oil from oilseeds of Jatropha curcas, with the aim of subsequently designing (and also setting up) full-scale production units. There will be a consequent increase in the know-how of the participating companies.

Description

The general considerations underlying the SIREJA proposal reside in the observation that there is a strong demand for effective and efficient technologies, especially at the small-medium power scale, to use the biomass resource locally, whether in solid form (residues pruning of fruit trees, minor assortments of silvicultural operations, coppice, agri-food residues such as pomace, pomace, oil seeds, etc.) or in liquid form (vegetation water from oil mills, livestock waste, dairy waste, etc.). On the level of the technological offer, the attention towards the configuration of small-sized plants was, in Italy, decidedly modest, as well as the attention towards oil crops to be exploited for the production of energy. In fact, this technology lends itself well to a territory like the Calabrian one, rich in small farms, which would thus obtain energy sustenance through the enhancement of residual biomass of the normal agricultural practices pursued.

The specific objectives and the related expected results are multiple and focused on the study and on the
improvement of the following technical activities:

to set up the dry and wet anaerobic digestion process, under controlled conditions;
to develop the process and the gasification technique of solid woody biomass;
develop a production chain of oil from Jatropha curcas including the related by-products.

The research activities will have as final results the acquisition of the design and construction skills of full-scale energy production units by the participating companies:
energy conversion plants through dry and wet anaerobic digestion with high production efficiency and reduced fermentation times, energy conversion plants through the thermochemical process of pyro gasification, perfected for the quality of the syngas obtained and for the low overall environmental impacts; production model of vegetable oil from Jatropha curcas with low environmental impact, able both to improve the productive yields of the crop and to provide the know - how for the production of products and derivatives.

Aims

The consistent availability of biomass at regional level, both in solid form (residues of fruit tree pruning, minor assortments of silvicultural operations, coppice, agri-food residues such as pomace, pomace, etc.) and in liquid form (vegetation waters of the mills oil, livestock waste, dairy waste, etc.) meets with the strong demand to develop effective and efficient technologies, especially at the medium and small power scale, to use the biomass resource locally with consequent increase in the know-how of companies participants
The SIREJA proposal has as its general objective the development of a production chain focused on the energy use of biomass capable of bringing the following benefits to the! 'ATS components:

increase in sales;
access to new markets;
increase in the competitiveness of the company;
improvement of company performance;
increasing the degree of innovation of the participating companies

The execution of the research activities will lead to the definition of innovative product and service processes, allowing ATS a significant increase in turnover (on average an increase of 50-100% is expected), which may be significantly higher in proportion to the effective penetration in the national and foreign market; in this regard it should be noted that the reference market for research results is considerably vast: just think of the whole market relating to biomass and the production of energy from alternative sources.
The results obtained through the research will also make it possible to support the competitiveness of production systems and existing supply chains or in the process of being formed on the regional territory through collaboration and inter-company integration processes (technical, organizational, production and commercial), to support the spin-off start-ups, increase competitiveness and support the development of existing companies through inclusion in one or more production chains.
It should not be forgotten that the prospects for the dissemination and transfer of the expected results from the implementation of the proposed research project to other potentially interested companies are considerable, as the market opportunities that would open up, through an induced group of companies serving the SIREJA business, could be of great significance.

SI.RE.JA.

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