Objective

 

A recent report from the European Association for Animal Production shows that BSE is the worst crisis ever in the European animal production industry. The BSE epidemic cost for Europe amounts for over 90 billion €.

 

In order to minimise the spread of BSE-infection among cattle a more stringent EU legislation regarding the use of animal by-products as a protein source in animal food became effective in October 2000. Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 elucidate this further and stipulates that animal waste from slaughterhouses has to be destroyed by combustion. It is important that this destruction is performed safely regarding health aspects but also that the overall processing is carried out in an energy effective way using the economical value of the energy content in the animal by-products properly.

 

16 million tons of animal by-products are produced annually in Europe. The costs for rendering and destroying this raw material exceed € 1 billion.

 

The objective of this project is to demonstrate and evaluate a new concept for a safe, environmental advantageous, economical sustainable and energy effective system for handling and combustion of animal by-products in Europe.

 

A new plant for production of Biomal will be built in the city of Karlskoga in Sweden for a production of 60 000 tonnes per year. The Biomal fuel will be combusted together with peat and waste wood in two 40 MW circulating fluidised bed boilers at Karlskoga combined heat and power plant. The environmental aspects of the combustion will be evaluated.