Description du projet
Technologie de réduction du méthane dans l’agriculture
Les 10 millions d’exploitations agricoles européennes contribuent à 10 % des émissions totales de gaz à effet de serre de l’UE. Le méthane représente près de la moitié (43 %) des émissions du secteur. Or, il n’existe aujourd’hui aucune solution technique pour réduire le méthane. L’agriculture étant la principale source d’émissions de méthane, les scientifiques cherchent des solutions efficaces et abordables pour réduire ces émissions. Par exemple, le méthane est émis par l’éructation des vaches et la décomposition du fumier. Le projet CANMILK, financé par l’UE, utilisera la technologie du plasma non thermique pour mettre au point une technologie de réduction du méthane simple à utiliser et nécessitant peu d’entretien. Le projet fournira un équipement simple et efficace aux élevages de bovins laitiers et à viande, ainsi qu’un aperçu utile de la faisabilité socio-économique et environnementale de la réduction du méthane par plasma.
Objectif
The challenge of agricultural GHG emissions is that they are highly diluted and originate from more than 10 million European farms. Thus, local emissions are small but the combined contribution on European level is ca. 10% of total GHG emissions. A significant portion of these is methane (ca 43 %), and most of that is produced by enteric fermentation, i.e. by belching cattle. Viable technical solutions do not exist for methane abatement, and new developments are urgently needed to meet the targets set by Methane Strategy, Farm to Fork Strategy and Fit for 55 legislation package for agricultural carbon neutrality in 2035. They must have high potential for commercialization, be efficient in methane abatement and costs must be affordable for the farmers.
CANMILK will develop technology that is simple to use and has low maintenance, with overall cost below 80 €/t CO2-eq. A non-thermal plasma, or cold plasma, is today in everyday use e.g. in fluorescent lamps and ozone generators. CANMILK project will utilize this technology in a novel and innovative way in the fight against methane.
The work is focused on the methane activation by plasma derived oxygen or hydrogen species enabling methane decomposition with the help of catalysts at mild conditions. As a result we expect to get 1) a simple and efficient equipment for methane abatement in dairy and meat cattle barns, 2) a good view of the socio-economic and environmental feasibility of plasma-based methane abatement and 3) increased public, scientific and industrial awareness of feasible solutions available for GHG abatement in agriculture.
Our estimate for the efficiency of the CANMILK technology is 90% methane conversion, which in case of maximum utilization in barns would lead to total GHG abatement of ca. 140 Mt CO2-eq/a in Europe. This would have significant positive impacts to farmers, rural communities, consumers and industry in the transition of the European economy towards more carbon neutral, sustainable future.
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