Quantitative assessment of regional biomass-based value chains

The aim of the subproject was to promote the development and dissemination of technologies for the energetic and material use of biomass and products in Baden-Württemberg. An integrated model that was developed as part of the tri-national project "Innovations for a sustainable use of biomass in the Upper Rhine region", which was adapted and extended for Baden-Württemberg with high spatial resolution, is applied. The model is based on material and energy flows for existing processes (e.g. biomass combustion) and for new biomass utilization concepts (e.g. biorefineries) as well as their techno-economic and ecological parameters. In cooperation with subprojects of the biogas and lignocellulose research network, a working group "BEPAF-BW" was set up to investigate the use of agricultural and forestry potential for bioeconomy in Baden-Württemberg (BioEconomy Potential from Agriculture and Forestry). An example of an implemented model linkage is the iterative coupling of the agricultural supply model EFEM (Economic Farm Emission Model) with the techno-economic location optimization model BiOLoCaTe (Biomass value chain Integrated Optimization for Location, Capacity, and Technology planning). The model linkage made it possible to identify potential locations of conversion plants for agricultural biomass in Baden-Württemberg        (Figure 1).