292-7 Evaluation of GHGs Budget for Production of Biodiesel From Rapeseed In Poland.



Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Henry Gonzalez Convention Center, Hall C, Street Level

Marek K. Jarecki, North America, Camco, Guelph, ON, Canada, Czeslaw Woloszyk, Department of Environmental Chemistry, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland, Jerry Hatfield, USDA-ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, Ames, IA and Wiley Barbour, North America, Camco, Broomfield, CO
Biofuel market in Poland grows rapidly. The main biofuel crop - rapeseed is designed for biodiesel production. However, there are no detailed assessments of greenhouse-gas emissions for cropping systems in Poland. Growing bioenergy crops and production of biofuels give an opportunity to achieve greenhouse-gas offsets. Proper quantification of net greenhouse gas fluxes can be performed through life-cycle analysis including all sinks and sources i.e. input of energy used for crop production, field greenhouse-gases emission, transport, fuel production, fuel displacement etc. The purpose of this work is to present greenhouse-gas balance by life-cycle assessment for bioenergy rapeseed crop grown in four years cropping system in different parts of Poland. Biogeochemistry model was employed for estimate quantification of field net greenhouse gasses emission.
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