Biogas på Wapnö
Analys av framtida energisystem
Considering that the price and demand for energy gradually has risen over the past decade and a wider discussion about the human impact on the environment has become increasingly more important and given a clearer role in modern society. This has contributed to increased incentives to reduce the use of fossil fuels and increase the use of renewable energy.The agriculture currently accounts for 20 % of Sweden's total greenhouse gas emissions. A way for an agricultural company like Wapnö AB to reduce their emissions could be to utilize existing renewable energy sources within their own premises.The report's aim is to create an energy audit of Wapnö?s existing energy system and how it changes with a future biogas plant in operation. The energy audit is used to illustrate how the company?s climate footprint could change. The report also investigates the economics of different heating options for the biogas process and the completion of the current refrigeration compressors with a heat-driven chiller, all to increase the usage of the waste heat from the cogeneration, and minimize the need of purchased energy.The results show that Wapnö can reduce their carbon emissions with 5600 tons of carbon dioxide per year with a future biogas plant in operation. The results also show that the waste heat, combined with a heat pump, is the most cost efficient way to heat the biogas process. Furthermore, the report also shows that the investment in an absorption chiller will be refunded within approximately 6 years, and that in a comparison of the reduced climate impact of either cogeneration or production of vehicle gas, at Wapnö, cogeneration provides a slightly larger reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.