European Bio-Energy Projects

BIODINA
Objectives
The objective of the project is to
demonstrate and widely disseminate
the benefits of changing the agrarian
practices of the Navarra community from
cereal food crops to oleaginous energy
crops in order to approach a sustainable
community in diesel consumption,
through the local production of biodiesel
at a large scale.
The specific objectives of the project are:
• To produce 35,000 Tm/year of sunflower,
rape and palm biodiesel, (11% of the
community consumption);
• To create 25 direct and 100 indirect jobs
related to the biodiesel plant;
• To involve between 300 and 400 farmers
from the community in the development
and supply of oleaginous biomass, which
implies a change of mentality from
traditional food crops to the new idea
of energy crops; and
• To contribute to European security
of supply. The use of local production
of 35,000 Tm/year of biodiesel will avoid
an annual import of 36,900 tonnes
of oil derivatives.
Production of biodiesel
from sunflower,
rapeseed and palm
Challenges
Navarra is a Spanish regional community lacking
conventional energy resources. Ten years ago its
supply was mainly based on the imports of
conventional energy sources (solid fuels, oil
derivatives and some gas), its energy self-supply
being just 13.3% in 1993. This strong external
energy dependency motivated its half a million
inhabitants, through the regional government, to
devise and execute (since 1990) a pioneer plan
for the integration of its own resources (renewable
energies) into the energy consumption chain.
Efforts were initially directed towards the RES
electric supply and, as a result, in 2003 the
community now generates over 50% of the
electricity consumption using RES (wind: over
400 MW; mini-hydro: over 60 MW; photovoltaic:
1.2 MWp; biomass: 25 MW).
However, fuels used for transport, heating, etc.
are still 100% conventional and imported.
The time has come to reduce this dependency
The RES biofuels project is a RES-based innovative
approach which will integrate the whole
chain of actors involved in biofuel production
(farmers, technology developer, biofuel producer
and end-users) in the community, in order to
shift to a more sustainable energy supply.
Location
The biodiesel plant will be located in the
Caparroso municipal area in the region of Navarra.
The land is situated to the north-west of the
municipal area, very close to the railway station.
The locality has very good road connections.
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Project structure
The work is divided into the following work
packages:
• WP1: Project management
• WP2: Crops
• WP3: Plant engineering
• WP4: Plant construction
• WP5: Laboratory
• WP6: Operation set-up
• WP7: Fill-in stations
• WP8: In-vehicle tests
• WP9: Final evaluation
The consortium comprises:
• EHN: Renewable energy promoter, Spain
• Lurgi: Biodiesel plant technology manufacturer,
Germany
• ITGA: Agrarian technical institute, Spain
• SCPSA: Local public organisation in charge of
local transport and other municipal services in
the city of Pamplona (capital of Navarra), Spain
• Cetenasa: Research centre, Spain
• ONIDOL: National organisation of oleaginous
plants, France
Expected impact and exploitation
The project will contribute to the local socioeconomic
development as it will create 25 direct
jobs for the operation of the new plant plus
100 indirect jobs in related services activities.
In addition, between 300 and 400 jobs will be
generated in the agrarian sector as regards
the following activities in the chain: raw material
growing, harvesting and logistics, and fuel
distribution and sale.