Power production from agricultural wastes and implementations

The management of agricultural wastes in distribution of scarce resources is an important factor in the economics. The task of the management of material flow becomes relevant for agriculture with the beginnings of the industrial production. Utilization of agricultural wastes for energy production means an income for agricultural sector. Agricultural sector is the largest business sector since the past in Turkey. Depending on the country's development reduces the share of this sector but maintains of total production and employment. In Turkey, the agricultural sector constitutes 90% of field crops and livestock (Kaya vd,2006) [1] . This study was constructed by considering the environmental, economical and social benefits and focus of this study is the production biogas from agricultural and animal wastes and utilization of obtained gases in integrated energy conversion technologies. The tasks in these study includes: review biogas and energy production technologies, system simulations and DSS modeling, design and development of two lab-scale (one for animal waste and other for agricultural waste) and one pilot scale (250 kW capacity) integrated biogas plant, integration of the pilot plant with energy conversion systems, experimental study, feasibility study including techno-economical analysis of the whole system, life cycle analysis and dissemination of the project results. © 2010 Czech University of Life Sciences Prague.