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A GIS approach for mapping the biogas potential from livestock manure and biogas site optimisation

Biogas produced through the process of anaerobic digestion can utilise a wide range of different feedstocks and is considered a renewable energy source. The EU Commission has recognised the role of AD in achieving circular economy goals and set the biogas and digestate production as recycling in the hierarchy of waste-to-energy operations. This work presents a Geographic Information System (GIS) based approach used for mapping of the biogas potential, derived from manure generated in livestock farms. In accordance with the calculated and mapped potential, optimal locations of biogas plants were determined, and the shortest transport routes were determined by using the GIS tool. The presented method was tested at the case study of five Croatian counties.

GIS, manure, optimal location, biogas

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