LRG/MMN Webinar: B0 for IPCC inventories and biogas production
A recording of the LRG/MMN Webinar: “B0 for IPCC inventories and biogas production” webinar is now available to view below.
This webinar includes three presentations about the measurements and use of the B0 also called biological methane potential (BMP). This includes a presentation of the problems in measuring B0, how B0 is used by IPPC protocols to calculate methane emission from stored liquid manure and risk of incorrect emission estimates due to incorrect B0. The variation in B0 as related to manure categories and composition will be presented using data from a large Danish dataset.
- Presenters’ bio:
Sasha D. Hafner is a senior researcher in the Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering at Aarhus University. He has worked for several years in a few research areas related to methane emission. This includes development and evaluation of laboratory methods for measurement of biochemical methane potential and development of related data processing standards and software. Sasha also led the development of a software package called ABM for simulating microbial activity and methane emission from stored manure. He is currently working on application of this tool to predict effects of management on methane emission.
Tony VanDerWeerden is a senior scientist at AgResearch in NZ. His research area is processes regulating gaseous N emissions (nitrous oxide, ammonia) from soils, greenhouse gas emissions (including methane) from manure management, farm-scale GHG footprints and mitigation technologies. He currently co-leads several international projects relating to GHG emissions from manure management systems. He also leads several national projects on GHG emissions and mitigations from pasture-based livestock systems and improvements to NZ’s agricultural GHG inventory. Tony was a lead author of the 2019 refinement of the 2006 IPCC inventory methodology guidelines.
Henrik B. Møller is Professor and heads the biogas research at Aarhus University. His research has a focus on anaerobic digestion and all the related aspects such as energy, environmental impact and sustainability. During his research career he has worked with process optimization, biomass selection, energy yield, degradation of xenobiotics and pre-treatment. He has investigated the interactions between feeding of the animals, feed additives and biogas potential. He was among the first Danish researchers looking into the vast energy potential of biogas and was one of the research pioneers in the Danish biogas development and has been initiating the biogas research at AU.