Responsible for the topic:  Dr. Volkhard Scholz ( Dept. 3) 

Team: Werner Daries (3), Dr. Klaus Gottschalk (Dept. 3), Dr. Philipp Grundmann (2), Dr. Monika Heiermann (2), Prof. Hans Jürgen Hellebrand (2), Christiane Herrmann (2), Dr. Christine Idler (1), Dr. Jürgen Kern (1), Felipe Lorbacher (3), Dr. Hartmut Schemel (3)

Production of raw materials
The European Community aims to produce more than 8% of the primary energy from biomass. Due to the improved general set-up for use of renewable energy the traditional bioenergy sources, like wood, are increasingly exhausted, and organic waste and by-products, like manure and straw, have limited potentials ore high ecological charges. An alternative is the production of energy plants on farm land. However, it is not clear up to now, which of the about 60 possible plant species ensure high stable yields at low effort and high environmental compatibility, which production and energy technology should preferably be used or developed and what are the real costs. The objective of this topic is the identification of energy efficient, ecologically compatible and cost-saving energy plant species and production technologies as well as the development of fundamentals for optimised technologies

Research structure (overview)