Manure management for methane mitigation - Improved inventory modelling to support policy actions
Manure management is a main source of methane (CH4) emissions. Mitigation options such as biogas treatment exist, but effects cannot be verified and are not accounted for in inventories.
In this project, a new method to estimate CH4 emissions from manure will be used to investigate farm-level greenhouse gas mitigation, and for upscaling to national inventories. Partners are DE, DK (coord.), NL, SE and the company BPC Instruments.
Experimental results are used to parameterise sub-models of daily CH4 emission for use in analysing country-specific scenarios with the model FarmAC. GHG mitigation scenarios are studied, and the results may be up-scaled and used for inventories at farm- and country-level.
A presentation VIDEO from autumn 2021.
On 23 February 2023, a WEBINAR was organised with presentations from global experts and the M4Models project: “Methane emissions from manure management – monitoring and mitigation”. It was a success with nearly 200 attending from more than 20 countries.
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Recent publications:
Petersen, S.O., Ma, C., Hilgert, J.E., Mjöfors, K., Sefeedpari, P., Amon, B., Aarnink, A., Francó, B., Dragoni, F., Groenestein, K., Gyldenkærne, S., Herrmann, C., Hutchings, N.J., Kristensen, I.S., Liu, J., Olesen, J.E., Rodhe, L. In-vitro method and model to estimate methane emissions from liquid manure management on pig and dairy farms in four countries. J. Environ. Manage. 353, 120233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120233
Hilgert, JE et al. 2023, 'Assessment of the biochemical methane potential of in-house and outdoor stored pig and dairy cow manure by evaluating chemical composition and storage conditions', Waste Management, bind 168, s. 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2023.05.031
Hafner, SD & Mjöfors, K 2023, 'STM: A software tool for predicting daily temperature in stored animal slurry', SoftwareX, vol. 22, 101354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2023.101354
Hilgert, JE et al. 2022, 'Methane Emissions from Livestock Slurry: Effects of Storage Temperature and Changes in Chemical Composition', Sustainability (Switzerland), bind 14, nr. 16, 9934. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14169934