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Technology and Support Centre in the Centre of Excellence for Renewable Resources (TFZ)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The main goals of the TFZ and its more than 80 staff members are the support of the agricultural production, the processing and utilization of renewable resources by applied research, the development and testing of products and methods, and the transfer of technlogy by demonstration and education. In addition the TFZ is responsible for financial support of projects in Bavaria.
Activities
- Research
- Coordination
Coordinated projects
- Accompanying research for the development project of Florafuel AG: Method for the production of secondary fuels from dried and pressed Biomass and its utilisation
- Accompanying research on plant oil fuelled tractors operated at Bavarian state test farms (BayTrak)
- Additives for Rapeseed Oil Fuel - Part 2: Engine tests and long term studies
- Additives for Rapeseed Oil Fuel - Project Part 1: Selection of Additives and Test of Efficacy
- Alternate weed management in orcharding and viticulture employing ecologically safe substances and an alternative mulch procedures based on renewable ressources
- Amaranth as biogas substrate rich in trace elements: selection for the development of practical amaranth lines for Bavarian site conditions
- Analysis of the ignition and combustion characteristics of alternative fuels
- Bavarian ring test of a range of perennial wild type species for biogas production - key issue knowledge transfer
- BeReal: Advanced Testing Methods for Better Real Life Performance of Biomass Room Heating Appliances
- BioMass-PM: Clean biomass combustion in residential heating. Particulate measurements, sampling, and physicochemical and toxicological characterisation
- Climate protection with renewable drive systems on state-owned research farms
- Collaborative project: Development of test methods for non-wood small-scale combustion plants (ERA-NET BIOENERGY)
- Collaborative project: Locally specific means reducing cost-effectively green house gas emissions when growing raw material crops - subproject 1: Coordination, data analysis and ecological evaluation deriving measures for action
- Concept Study Introduction of Rapeseed Oil Fuel at Munich Airport
- Conception of agri-photovoltaic systems
- Conversion of a silo cover based on renewable raw materials into practice
- Crop rotations with crops requiring short growing periods
- CycleTest - Developing an advanced load cycle test for automatically charged wood boilers to assess real life performance - subproject 2: Development, theoretical and experimental investigation
- DBU Pesticide Support Initiative: Weed suppression in field vegetable production based on a sprayable two-component mulch material made from renewable ressources
- Demonstration project silphie crop growing in the northern ´Frankenalb´; agricultural counselling via the technology and support center
- Determination of the annual efficiency and emission factors for biomass furnaces by means of combustion testing
- Development and evaluation of weed application maps for the use of robots for mechanical weed control
- Development and optimisation of a silo cover based on renewable resources
- Development of a Covering Material from feedable raw material - Stage 2
- Development of a method for the determination of the octane numbers (MOZ and RON) of conventional and alternative biogenic petroleum fuels and their blends in a constant volume combustion chamber
- Development of an alternative method for weed control in orchards and vineyards using a sprayable mulch material made from renewable raw materials to practice suitability
- Development of transitional strategies for permanent cultivated areas and continuation of the digestate fertilization trial in full-grown silphia
- Digestate fertilisation and environmentally friendly conversion methods for cup plant
- Digestate Trial Bavaria - Assessment of the longterm sustainanbility of the conversion pathways biogas and biomass-to-liquid
- Efficient storage and processing procedures towards woodchips
- Emission and operation characteristics of a biomethane fuelled tractor with pilot injection engine – Investigation on a tractor test stand and in practice
- Emission and Operation Characteristics of Vegetable Oil Compatible Tractors - Test Stand Studies and Field Tests
- Ethanol from Sorghum - Overall Concept for Sustainable Utilisation of Sorghum Varieties as Raw Material for Ethanol Production
- Evaluation and development of modern methods of artificial intelligence for automatic weed detection sorghum using drones
- Evaluation of cost effective dust precipitators for wood stoves and boilers
- Expert network - Greenhouse Gas Assessment and Climate Protection in Agriculture
- Fertilisation with biogas digestate in perennial crops: optimisation of fertilisation time points
- Fine particle emissions from residential grain and straw furnaces - Impacts and measures for reduction
- Fine particle emissions from residential wood furnaces - Impacts and measures for reduction
- Fundamental-oriented investigations of injection behaviour and combustion behaviour of vegetable oil fuel and transference to an engine system of the exhaust emission step IV/V. Subproject 1: Characterisation of the ignition behaviour and combustion process of rapeseed oil fuel and other vegetable oils
- HackZert: Development of a certification scheme for wood chips. Subprject 2: Development of the certification program HackZert, experimental support
- Hemp for industrial uses: current state of knowledge and developments
- Influence of fuel properties on NOx emissions in wood chip heating plants with 1 to 5 MW heat output
- Innovative processing techniques for wood fuels - part 1: Novel cone chipping system
- Investigations on the use rapeseed oil powered tractors in Educational, experimental and technical centre for organic farming Kringell
- Joint project: Agronomic, economic and ecological evaluation of sorghum species and hybrids as energy crops. Subproject 2: sowing dates trial (Evaluation of sowing dates) and fertilization trial
- Joint project: oil plants as intercrops. Subproject 5: Field and plot trials under Bavarian site conditions
- Joint project: Production and demonstration of the practicality of tractors with engines of emission level TIER 4 in operation with pure plant oil; Sub-project 2: Fuel analysis, stationary emission measurements and field tests
- Joint project: Sorghum cultivation techniques - a contribution to the diversification of the energy spectrum, sub-project 4: site assessment and comparison of varieties, production, herbicide testing, practice survey on energy crops of millet, sorghum mixed cropping
- Local specific greenhouse gas emissions via rapeseed production in Bavaria
- Long-term monitoring and functionality of dust separators for single-room heaters in the field Part 1: Fundamentals, field installation and initial operating experiences
- Material use of biomass ashes as a building block of the bio-economy - Project phase II - Preparation of a practice guideline for the management and quality assurance of wood ashes from Bavarian biomass heating and power plants
- Material use of biomass ashes as an element in bioeconomie - project stage 1
- Mixed cultivation for the production of vegetable oils and proteins as renewable raw resources
- Novel and extended wood pellet characterisation and combustion modelling - part I Fundamental Research
- Novel and extended wood pellet characterisation and combustion modelling – Part 1: Basic investigations
- Novel and extended wood pellet characterisation and combustion modelling – Part 2: Application in practice
- Optimal supply and storage processes for wood chips
- Optimization of a method for weed management in field vegetable cultivation with a sprayable mulch material based on renewable raw materials
- Organising a supply chain with short rotation forestry wood for the TFZ district heating system, with accompanying research
- Paraffinic diesel fuel from residual and waste materials for climate-friendly management of the Bavarian State Estates, State Forests, State Institutes, TFZ and farms of the correctional facilities for the implementation of the Bavarian climate protection offensive
- Permanent crops and their cultivation suitability in Bavaria
- Preparation of a Manuscript for a Handbook Production of Rapeseed Oil Fuel in Decentral Oil Extraction Plants
- QualiS: Development of a Quality Management System for Wood Chip Production. Subproject 2: Quality Management Systems für Wood Chip Production - Parameters and Variables
- Quality assurance DIN 51605 (Fuels for vegetable oil compatible combustion engines - Fuel from rapeseed oil - Requirements and test methods)
- Quality assurance measures to reduce mineral contamination and to improve the combustion of wood materials
- Quality conserving wood chip storage
- Questioning of Operators of Decentralised Oilseed Processing Plants
- Rapeseed oil fuel as an energy source for the operation of a forestry harvester
- Real driving emissions of non-road mobile machinery – Commissioning of a new portable emission measurement system, evaluation of methods and measurements
- Renewable energy sources with flowers: legume-cereal-mixed crops
- Scientific monitoring of the agrivoltaics demonstration plant in Grub and the pilot plant in Unterallgäu
- Scientific monitoring of the measure: Climate-compatible management of state-owned properties
- Screening and selection of amaranth varieties and lines as biogas substrate rich in trace elements
- Short project agrophotovoltaic status and open questions
- Small-scale BM based CHP: Development of innovative small(micro)-scale biomass-based CHP technologies. Subproject 1: Basic investigations
- Sorghum as an Energy Crop – Optimization of a Sustainable Production System
- Sorghum for biogas: Specification of growing recommendation for the particular conditions in Bavaria
- Sorghum Millet as Renewable Resource - Variety Screening and Cultivation Scenarios
- Standardisation of Rapeseed Oil and other Plant Oils for Fuel Use
- Status quo of decentralized oil extraction - nationwide survey
- Strategies towards deposition avoidance in injection nozzles with the multi fuel application of biogenic fuels; Subproject 5: Investigations of the tractor
- Subproject 6: Evaluation of the Double-Cropping-System on seven sites in Germany
- Suitability of buckwheat and quinoa as late catch crops for biogas production
- System development for the energetic use of alternative pellets and furnaces.
- Technical approaches for the adaption of existing biogas plants to energetic utilisation of fibrous agricultural waste and residues
- Testing of the Suitability of Methods for the Reduction of Deposit and Ash Forming Elements in Rapeseed Oil Fuel Produced in Small-Scaled Oil Mills
- Use and optimization of hemp farming as a renewable ressource
- Value-oriented communication of the energy transition in rural areas
- Wood Stoves 2020: Development of next generation and clean wood stoves. Subproject 1: Basic investigations
- Worth knowing: Legume-grain mixtures are bioenergy ressources with added value
- Yield stability, establishment and environmental effects of perennial energy crops
Involved in research projects
- Amarant a supplier for biogas rich in trace elements: Monitoring by flow-through fermenters
- Amaranth as trace element-rich biogas substrate: time surveys in flow fermenters
- Amaranth as trace element-rich biogas substrate: time surveys in flow fermenters
- BioCAT: Clean Air Technology for Biomass Combustion Systems
- BioMaxEff
- Collaborative project: Optimizing sorghum crop production and knowledge transfer into agricultural practice, Subproject 1: Crop cultivation experiments optimizing biogas performance and yield as well as inventory setting
- Collaborative project: Optimizing sorghum crop production and knowledge transfer into agricultural practice, Subproject 2: Optimizing sorghum cultivation in practice and crop cultivation on recultivation sites
- Collaborative project: Optimizing sorghum crop production and knowledge transfer into agricultural practice, Subproject 3: Soil quality, biogas potential and economic efficiency
- Collaborative project: Optimizing sorghum crop production and knowledge transfer into agricultural practice, Subproject 4: Crop cultivation experiments optimizing raw material performance and yield in catch crop cultivation with previous agricultural respective cascade use of sorghum as an inter crop
- Collaborative project: Paludicultures in Bavarian fen soils - development, environmental relevance and impacts as well as its applications and economic efficiency
- Common European method for the determination of particulate matter emissions from solid fuel burning appliances and boilers (EN-PME-Test)
- Conversion into electicity by biogen residues employing a engine with fluidised bed combustion; subproject: dust emissions by small scaled fluidised bed combustion
- Cooperative test Bavaria concerning the use of herb-rich sowings as biogas substrate (phase II)
- Cooperative test to create a valid data basis for economic evaluation of herb-rich sowings used as biogas substrate in Bavaria 2011 - 2013
- Development and comparison of optimized cropping systems for the arable prodcution of energy crops for the varying site conditions in Germany - Phase III (EVA III); Modul 2: Ecological effects, Part: Abiotic effects
- Development and comparison of optimized cropping systems for the arable prodcution of energy crops for the varying site conditions in Germany - Phase III (EVA III); Modul 2: Ecological effects, Part: Biotic effects
- Development and comparison of optimized cultivation systems for agricultural production of energy crops under different site conditions in Germany - Phase II (EVA II). Subproject 6: Energy supply by means of biogas and ethanol inclusive exploitation of by-products in an organic farm without livestock (ÖKOVERS) in conjunction with a link for adjustment and bridging (KORB)
- Development and comparison of optimized cultivation systems for agricultural production of energy crops under different site conditions in Germany - Phase III (EVA III). Subproject 5: Double-Cropping-Systems (ÖKOVERS)
- Development of a practical and reliable ash melting test for biomass fuels, in particular for wood pellets
- Dual land use through horticultural production associated with digitalised control of agri-photovoltaic modules as an adaptive strategy against climate change and for expanding renewable energies
- Energy crop information and demonstration centres
- Energy crop information and demonstration centres 3
- Energy crop information and demonstration centres 4
- Energy utilization from herb-rich sowing in the agricultural landscape - an ecological and economical alternative for the production of biogas
- ERA-NET Bioenergy
- EU-UltraLowDust: Next generation small-scale biomass combustion technologies with ultra-low emissions
- Evaluation of high-speed measurement technology for fuel analysis in wood (heating) power plants – Part 2: Sample production, analysis and standardisation
- Examination of hemp oil with regard to its suitability as fuel for engines adapted to pure plant oil use
- Expert group bioenergy resource management in Bavaria
- Feasibility study decentral biorefinery
- FutureBioTec: Future Low Emission Biomass Combustion Systems
- Heat from wood - Fine particle emissions: Fuel impact, furnace contest, secondary measures, characterisation and toxicity
- Improvement of the combustion of pure rapeseed oil fuel in modern heavy-duty engines
- Improving availability of food for honey bees and blossom-visiting insects by attracting long-flowering perennials gaining energy and increasing biodiversity - project term 2
- Innovative methods for organic weed-control in horticulture
- Insect friendly energy cropping systems: combination of sorghum with flowering undersown crops
- LandSchafftEnergie - Phase III Expert team energy transition in rural areas
- LandSchafftEnergie - Phase IV Expert team energy transition in rural areas at the LWF
- MoniTrak: long-term monitoring of exhaust emissions, efficiency and reliability of vegetable oil compatible tractors to the Bavarian government experimental farms
- Multi-Fuel-Tractor-Sub-Project: Sensor Test and Investigation of Overall System at the Tractor Test Stand and in Field Operation
- OptiChip: optimizing emissions of woodchip small combustion plants through suitable fuel choice and combustion management. Subproject 2: Experimental support and combustion investigations
- Pre-normative research on solid biofuels for improved European standards
- Preparation of a Bavarian biomass resource strategy - scientific basics and recommendations
- Preparation of training materials for proper heating with wood stoves
- Resilient Food Production with Green Tractors - ResiTrac
- Screening of Sorghum-genotypes in terms of growth and resource use efficiency under future climatic conditions
- SECTOR: Production of Solid Sustainable Energy Carriers from Biomass by Means of Torrefaction
- Subproject 6: Evaluation of the Double-Cropping-System on seven sites in Germany
- Sustainable use of biomass energy at the interface between climate, landscape and society. Subproject G2: Combustion of forest wood and and short rotation coppice from non-polluted and polluted land
- Sustainable use of biomass energy at the interface between climate, landscape and society. Subproject: pollutant emissions in energy production from straw, wood and biogas
- Synergies through integration of biomass utilization and power-to-X in the production of renewable fuels – part 4 TFZ: fuel testing
- Technological Innovation and Social Responsibility: Challenges for the Bavarian Agriculture and the Provision of Bioenergy in View of the Climate Change
- Valorization of low quality wood chip assortments for biomass gasification facilitating the economic operation of existing CHP plants and supporting planned further installations
Contact
Technology and Support Centre in the Centre of Excellence for Renewable Resources
(TFZ)
Schulgasse 18
94315 Straubing
Bavaria
Germany
Phone: +49 09421 300-210
Fax: +49 09421 300-211
Email: poststelle(@)tfz.bayern.de