Web250814: Agricultural Feedstocks for Gaseous Biofuels
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About the webinar
Across the globe, countries are turning to biogas and biomethane to replace dwindling natural gas supplies. Increasingly, agricultural residues are being recognised as a vital feedstock source in this transition.
In New Zealand, the Government invested significantly in bioenergy research—first in the pre-1984 period and again from 2006 to 2014—exploring a wide range of agricultural crops as potential feedstocks. These findings remain as relevant today as when they were first produced.
To keep this valuable work accessible, the Bioenergy Association is republishing the research through the Bioenergy Knowledge Centre, making the full collection of reports freely available. [Explore the collection here].
In this webinar, Rocky Renquist, Life Member of the Bioenergy Association and a leading contributor to the 2006–2014 research, will present an overview of the key findings. He will be joined by Stephan Heubeck, who played a pivotal role in the MPI-funded gaseous biofuels programme from 2008 to 2014.
The Bioenergy Association’s Agricultural Feedstocks Working Group continues to lead the research and promotion of agricultural feedstocks for bioenergy. Members with an interest in this area are warmly invited to join the Group. Learn more here.
About the presenters
Rocky Renquist is a horticultural crop physiologist with 33-years of experience including nine focused on high-biomass species.
He has been a leading researcher in New Zealand on non-woody cropping systems for supplying bioenergy and biofuel facilities. The crops he has studied – both novel and well-established - can be grown sustainably without competing for prime arable land.
Stephan Heubeck is an Environmental Engineer with over 20-years of experience in the design, installation, operation, optimisation and research of biogas and anaerobic digestion (AD) systems in Germany, New Zealand and Australia.
His work spans a wide range of both high-tech and low-tech AD systems, using diverse substrates – from manures and agro-industrial by-products to dedicated energy crops – and covers all supporting auxiliary processes related to AD.