METHOD OF MEASUREMENT OF EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GAS INDUSTRY RELATED BIOPRODUCTS

• US 20120290362A1
• Filed: 05/09/2012
• Published: 11/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Abengoa Bioenergía Nuevas Tecnologías SA (Abengoa SA)
• Original Assignee: Abengoa Bioenergía Nuevas Tecnologías SA (Abengoa SA)
• Inventors: ARJONA ANTOLIN, Ricardo, VALENZUELA ROMERO, Maria de las Nieves, GARCIA ENCINAS, Rocio, GUTIERREZ MONTERO, Maria Angeles, ALONSO MARTINEZ, Beatriz, DIAZ MOLIST, Raquel, YANEZ VIDAL, Jesus, MONTES GARCIA, Laura, LOPEZ LOPEZ, Jesus, MARQUEZ PINUELA, MacArena, VAZQUEZ GARCIA, Marta
• Application Number:
  US13/467,352
• Publication Number:
  US 20120290362A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.36
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/04 Manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 80/20 using renewable energy
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/30 Computing systems specially adapted for manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/84 Greenhouse gas [GHG] management systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/845 Inventory and reporting systems for greenhouse gases [GHG]

Abstract

The method hereby described allows the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions produced during feedstock production, processing thereof in said transport byproduct and byproduct from different sources of material, considering the transportation of said raw material taken as fountain. The method comprises capturing, processing and manipulating different parameters and data regarding GHG emissions associated with each task needed to produce and distribute the byproduct and the provision of that byproduct and/or source material that will be transformed into the bioproduct, with in order to generate an overall value of greenhouse gas emissions.

Claims

1. Method for measuring emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) associated with bioindustry, where said industry includes production of raw materials, processing of that raw material to transform said raw material into a bioproduct and logistics associated with both the transport of raw material to a transformation plant as the distribution of transformed bioproduct, comprising:

capture by means of data capture means at least one variable related to at least one of the following emissions;

GHG emissions from the production of bioproducts in processing plant, GHG emissions resulting from the distribution of bio-products, emissions from logistics of raw materials for production of bioproducts,

sending said at least one variable obtained in the previous step to a database by means of data transmission means,

recovering, by means of a modeling module of GHG emissions associated with a central processing unit, the variable from the database,

estimate, from the variable and through the modeling module of GHG emissions,a value of the activity data related to a task associated with the variable,

calculate, from the variable and using the modeling module of GHG emissions, an emission factor related to the task associated with the variable,

calculate, using the modeling module of GHG emissions an emission rate for distribution and transport [TORS] associated with GHG emissions produced by means of transport of the logistics related to the bioproduct and raw material used to obtain the latter,

calculate, by means of modeling module of GHG emissions an emission value associated with each task using the following formula;

Emission Value=Emission Factor·

Activity Data, and

calculate, through the modeling module of GHG emissions an emission level of GHG associated with bio-industry using the following formula;

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the data capture means are operative to monitor, collect and report data selected from the group consisting of flow rate, weight, moisture, consumption, flow exported power, temperature, pressure, particulate material, gas composition, energy produced, energy consumed, fuel consumed raw material and waste flow.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the process used to transform the source material into bioproduct is selected from the group consisting of:

milling, mashing, cooking, liquefaction, fermentation, distillation, dehydration, treating furnace, a cogeneration unit, gas turbine, steam turbine, preparation of raw material, pretreatment of biomass separation of solids/liquids, gasification, cooling, gas cleaning, compression, catalytic reaction, enzymatic hydrolysis, selexol, transesterification, evaporation, mixing, drying, extraction, degumming, filtration, recovery, refining, purification, clarification, acid esterification, condensation, ventilation and correction.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the bioproduct further comprises a co-product.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the co-product is selected from the group consisting of:

biofuels, bioliquids, biogas, chemicals, fillers, renewable electricity, renewable thermal energy, bio-plastics, resins and CO2.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the bioproduct is a biofuel.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the biofuel is bioethanol.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein the biofuel is biodiesel.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the raw material is selected from the group consisting of:

cereals, sugar cane, straw, energy crops, forestry equipment, forestry residues, organic waste, wine alcohol, residues of fishing and aquaculture and oilseeds.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the data capture means are connected to at least one source of data comprising relevant data regarding emissions associated with transport means.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the relevant data comprise at least one of the following:

data available from databases and/or bibliography that includes information relating to emissions from transport, and

data relating to a direct use of energy transport means.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of calculating the emission rate of distribution and transport [TORS] is performed based on a selected path using at least one route system to allow selection of a route according to the GHG emissions associated with transportation that made the route.

13. A computer program comprising instructions for calculating emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) associated with bioindustry, where said industry includes production of raw materials, processing of that raw material to transform said raw material into a bioproduct and logistics associated with both the transport of raw material to a transformation plant as the distribution of transformed bioproduct, wherein the instructions comprises:

recovering by means of a modeling module of GHG emissions associated with a central processing unit, at least one variable related to at least one of the following emissions;

GHG emissions from the production of bioproducts in processing plant, GHG emissions resulting from the distribution of bio-products, emissions from logistics of raw materials for production of bioproducts, from a database,

estimate, from the variable and through the modeling module of GHG emissions, a value of the activity data related to a task associated with the variable,

calculate, from the variable and using the modeling module of GHG emissions, an emission factor related to the task associated with the variable,

calculate, using the modeling module of GHG emissions an emission rate for distribution and transport [TORS] associated with GHG emissions produced by means of transport of the logistics related to the bioproduct and raw material used to obtain the latter,

calculate, by means of modeling module of GHG emissions an emission value associated with each task using the following formula;

Emission Value=Emission Factor·

Activity Data, and

calculate, through the modeling module of GHG emissions an emission level of GHG associated with bio-industry using the following formula;

14. The computer program of claim 13 being allocated in a physical digital media carrier accesible by the central processing unit.

15. The computer program of claim 13 being allocated in a remote server accesible by the central processing unit.

16. A computer-implemented business model data management method comprising:

identifying at least one GHG emissions level within a database structure for a business application wherein said database comprises GHG emissions levels related to GHG emissions generated by each process and operations necessary to produce raw material to be transformed into bioproduct, every process and operation needed to transform said raw material in bioproduct and and every process and operation needed to deliver said raw material to a transformation plant and to deliver the bioproduct once transformed at said transformation plant;

locating data management rules for said GHG emissions level in the database; and

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correlating said GHG emissions level with a business object, wherein said business object is related to a business application associated to a bioproduct obtained from raw material, and

executing said located data management rules to represent said identified business object in a database for said business application.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the rules comprise at least one of the following rules:

rules related to maximum GHG emissions level required by a client,

rules related to a GHG emissions level generated by the production of the raw material,

rules related to a GHG emissions level generated by the transformation of the raw material into bioproduct,

rules related to logistics of raw material to be transformed into bioproduct,

rules related to logistics of transformed bioproduct, and

rules related to the value of the bioprodcut produced, wherein said value is related to a GHG emissions level generated by each process and operations necessary to produce raw material to be transformed into bioproduct and every process and operation needed to transform said raw material into bioproduct.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein the rule related to a GHG emissions level generated by the production of the raw material determines whether to use said raw material for producing a bioproduct from said raw material.

19. The method of claim 17 further comprising automatically selecting an area of production of raw material to be transformed into bioproduct according to a GHG emissions level generated by the production of said raw material.

20. A computer program product for business object data management comprising a computer useable medium having computer usable program code tangibly embodied therein, the computer useable program code comprising:

computer usable program code configured to identify at least one GHG emissions level within a database structure for a business application wherein said database comprises GHG emissions levels related to GHG emissions generated by each process and operations necessary to produce raw material to be transformed into bioproduct, every process and operation needed to transform said raw material in bioproduct and every process and operation needed to deliver said raw material to a transformation plant and to deliver the bioproduct once transformed at said transformation plant,

computer usable program code configured to locate data management rules for said GHG emissions level in the database; and

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computer usable program code configured to correlate said GHG emissions level with a business object, wherein said business object is related to a business application associated to a bioproduct obtained from raw material, and

computer usable program code configured to execute said located data management rules to represent said business object in a database for said business application.

21. The product of claim 20 wherein the rules comprise at least one of the following rules:

rules related to maximum GHG emissions level required by a client, rules related to a GHG emissions level generated by the production of the raw material, rules related to a GHG emissions level generated by the transformation of the raw material into bioproduct, and rules related to the value of the bioprodcut produced, wherein said value is related to a GHG emissions level generated by each process and operations necessary to produce raw material to be transformed into bioproduct, every process and operation needed to transform said raw material into bioproduct and every process and operation needed to deliver said raw material to a transformation plant and to deliver the bioproduct once transformed at said transformation plant.

22. The product of claim 20 wherein the rule related to a GHG emissions level generated by the production of the raw material determines whether to use said raw material for producing a bioproduct from said raw material.

23. The product of claim 20 further comprising automatically selecting an area of production of raw material to be transformed into bioproduct according to a GHG emissions level generated by the production of said raw material.