Research
Network Bioenergy
University
of Kassel
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In the context of the finiteness of fossil fuels Renewable Primary
Products are considered as an
important alternative resource. Renewable Primary Products can help
diminish greenhouse effects in
the wake of an increased use of CO2-neutral energy sources.
In 2020 about 10% of electricity, heating and fuel are supposed to be
generated from biomass.
Agricultural, forest and waste industry is far from exploiting the full
potential of biomass. At
the same time there are many reasons for using a good deal more
Renewable Primary Products than
ever:
it ...
.. reduces detrimental
effects on the environment
.. creates jobs
.. has a positive
influence on regional development.
Interdisciplinary cooperation at the Research Network
Bioenergy helps to find answers to the important questions
of optimising bioenergy
production.
The University of Kassel and its distinctive environmental section
offer excellent conditions for
this purpose.
At the University of Kassel all essential skills are combined:
- Organic Agricultural Science
- Environmental Systems Research
- Environmental Psychology
- Renewable Energies Engineering
- Ecological Urban und Regional Planning
- Environmental Law
- Electrotechnology of Renewable Energies
- Environmental Civil Engineering
- Ecological Social Science
The interdisciplinary cooperation of 25 departments allows handling
research issues which lay
in-between disciplinary borders.
The Research Network
Bioenergy develops an independent and
distinctive profile. It offers network building beyond university
structures and a high capability
of transfer. The Research Network Bioenergy is the acknowledged partner
regarding biomass issues
all over the north of Hesse. Close co-operation partners are the
Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt
(DBU) and the Hessisches Ministerium fr Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und
Verbraucherschutz (HMULV).
Research Network Bioenergy
focuses on the following
issues:
- Which kind of judicial, commercial and
social parameters and instruments have
to be considered while cultivating renewable primary products?
- How can we achieve more acceptance of
renewable primary products by different
groups and players?
- How can widespread cultivation of
renewable primary products be made
consistent with sustainable regional development?
- Does both ecological and conventional
cultivation of renewable primary
products offer chances?
- Which kind of new energy plants can be
used?
- How does cultivation of renewable
primary products influence agro-biodiversity
and how does it chance cultural landscapes?
- How do we have to deal with the
competition between using plants for nutrition
and for energy production?
- What energy potential is available for
waste heat utilization?
- How can bioenergy be successfully
integrated into a system of local and
national supply?
- How can emerging allocation problems be
solved?
- Is there more potential for energy
recovery (e.g. biogas or biofuel)?
The Research Network
Bioenergy is a cooperation of the
following university departments.
More information on Research Network Bioenergy:
Bioenergie Universität Kassel
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Michael Wachendorf
Dept. Grassland Science and Renewable Plant Ressources
Steinstrasse 19
37213 Witzenhausen
Rachels Michels
Coordination of the Research Network Bioenergy
Mönchebergstr. 19b
34109 Kassel
Phone.:
0561-804-2249
Fax: 0561-804-2226
Email: lumwelt
at uni-kassel.de
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