SUDAN GRASS AS AN ENERGY CROP FOR BIOGAS PRODUCTION

Importance of agricultural production (besides strategically significant food production) increases, because of the need for strategic production of energy crops used for energy production. Term energy crop includes crops that can be processed using different technologies in order to obtain differen...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cereal research communications 2008-01, Vol.36, p.579-582
Hauptverfasser: KRALIK, Davor, BUKVIĆ, Željko, KUKIĆ, Srećko, URANJEK, Nataša, VUKŠIĆ, Marko
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Zusammenfassung:Importance of agricultural production (besides strategically significant food production) increases, because of the need for strategic production of energy crops used for energy production. Term energy crop includes crops that can be processed using different technologies in order to obtain different energy-generating bioproducts, such as: biodiesel, bioethanol, biogas and biomass for incineration. Correct management and better exploitation of existing land resources, as well as introduction and development of new crops makes possible higher production of plant organic material for processing and production of energy-generating bioproducts. In biogas production, biogas production plants work continuously throughout the year without stopping. To insure that, it is necessary to provide enough organic material in quality and quantity, which will be converted into biogas in production plants. Due to its distinctly high green mass yield, Sudan grass (Sorghum sudanense L.) becomes interesting crop that can replace silage maize in biogas production plants. Sudan grass is an annual high grass, which gives exceptionally high green mass yields that can be used as green forage, haylage or silage. Due to its late sowing period, it is suitable as stubble crop. In conducted research, obtained Sudan grass yield amounted to 82 t/ha. Due to its high yield it is possible to obtain the same amount of silage using only 60% of land we used for maize silage production.
ISSN:0133-3720
1788-9170
DOI:10.1556/CRC.36.2008.Suppl.B.48