Biomass energy potential : green energy for the university of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

The combined production of electrical and heat energy is one of the preferred, by national policy, activities associated with energy production from renewable sources. The simultaneous generation of heat and electrical or mechanical energy during the same technological process is called cogeneration or combined heat and power, CHP. The presented methodological approach includes an analysis of the data recorded in the research stations and agricultural production stations owned and managed by the University of Warmia and Mazury (UWM) in Olsztyn, performed in order to determine the energy potential of biomass and other renewable energy sources (RES). Depending on the substrates available for UWM in Olsztyn, it is proposed to take a varied approach towards the use of RES by means of biotechnological and thermal biomass conversion. The first method is based on the production of biogas from biomass with the subsequent use of the generated biogas in the process of cogeneration. In the second method, heat energy generated by gasification in a syngas generator will be used for transformation with a Stirling’s engine into mechanical energy and finally into electrical (30%) and heat (60%) energy. The concept of a “Green University” is the result of the performed analyses.