ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 68 Hours of tutorials: 4 Expository Class: 12 Interactive Classroom: 16 Total: 100
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Higher Polytechnic Engineering School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
The main target of this subject is to provide students the knowledge on lignocellulosic biomass production systems and their relationship with the main biofuels used in the production of renewable thermal and electric energy.
The master degree Memory considers for thius course the following contents: Bases of biomass and agroenergy. Sustainability and environmental impacts. Biomass production in forest systems: firewood, logging residues or slash, stumps, energy use for traditional forest plantations. Silvicultural management for energy production. Planting densities.
Energy thinnings. Short rotation woody crops. Herbaceous energy crops. Protection in forest systems and energy crops: international measures of control, pest and diseases. Appraising damage levels and disease management.
These contents will be developed according to the following units:
Block I. Bases of biomass and agroenergy. Sustainability.
Unit 1. Biomass typology. Concepts and classification.
Unit 2. Biomass in the Spanish Plan of Renewable Energies 2011-20.
Unit 2b. Interactive. Energy efficiency of biomass.
Unit 3. Environmental limitations.
Unit 4. Interactive. Efficiency and life-cycle assessment (LCA).
Block II. Biomass production in forest systems
Unit 5. Silvicultural regimes to produce firewood
Unit 6. Logging residues and stumps
Unit 6b. Interactive. Use of firewood, wood chips and pellets standards.
Unit 7. Silvicultural management to produce solid timber and biomass
Unit 8. Energy thinnings
Unit 8b. Interactive. Planning and yield of energy thinnings
Block III. Short rotation forestry
Unit 9. Establishment techniques and initial stocking
Unit 10. Weed control and irrigation
Unit 11. Productivity and rotation
Unit 11b. Interactive. Evaluating productivity
Unit 12. Interactive. SRC harvest and biomass quality
Block IV. Herbaceous short rotation energy crops
Unit 13. Crops for lignocellulosic biomass
Unit 13 b. Interactive. Micropropagation of Miscanthus x giganteus
Unit 14. Crops for producing amylaceous biomass
Unit 15. Crops for producing sugar biomass
Unit 16. Crops for producing oleaginous biomass
Block V. Protection
Unit 17. Health problems in biomass production. Damage-causing agents and detection systems
Unit 18. Control strategies
Unit 19. Specific protection in forest systems
Unit 20. Specific protection in energy crops
Unit 20b. Interactive. Identifying pests and pathogens in energy crops
FIELD PRACTICES:
Practices (Interactive teaching):
- Field trip 1: Visit to short rotation crops and logistic facility for thermal use.
- Field trip 2: Managing logging residues and industrial use in thermal boiler
-Serrada, R., Montero, G., Reque, J., 2009. Compendio de selvicultura aplicada en España
-Vega, D., Dopazo, R., Ortíz, L., 2010. Manual de cultivos energéticos. UVIGO, 211 pp.
-AENOR, 2011. UNE-EN 14961-1. Biocombustibles sólidos: especificaciones y clases de combustibles. Parte 1: requisitos generales
-Camps, M., Marcos, F., 2008. Los biocombustibles. 2ª Edición. Mundi Prensa. 383 pp.
-Energiespaverband, 2010. Biomass heating in upper Austria: green energy, green jobs. 40 pp.
-IDAE, 2009. Guía técnica: instalaciones de biomasa térmica en edificios. Ministerio de Industria, turismo y comercio. 88pp
-Ortíz, L., 2008. Producción de biocombustibles sólidos de alta densidad en España. Boletín del CIDEU, 5, 107-123.
-Raitila, J. & Hillebrand, K. Improvement of firewood quality, Quality Wood Project Report WP3.2/2008, Project EIE/06/178/SI2.444403. Jyväskylä, Finland, December 2008, 38 pages.
- Revistas: Biocombustibles, Biomass and Bioenergy, Bioenergy international (edición España)
- I y II Congresos Ibéricos de biocombustibles.
- Tolosana, E.; Ambrosio, Y.; Laína, R. Y Martínez Ferrari, R.; 2009. Guía de la maquinaria para el aprovechamiento y la elaboración de biomasa forestal. Cesefor, Junta de Castilla y León, 92 pp
- Universidad de Concepción. Curso de cultivos dendroenergéticos (2009) y Curso de selvicultura de Eucalyptus para producción de madera y biomasa (2012). USC. Curso de verano Biomasa forestal y bioenergía (2013).
A range of general and specific competences related to forest engineering will be acquired by the students. Among the competences included for the master Studies, the following ones will be worked on in this course:
Basic, general and transversal competences:
CG5. Ability to develop techniques and projects in the field of renewable energy.
CB9 – The student will know how to convey their conclusions and knowledge and the rationale underpinning them to both specialized and non-specialized public, in a clear and unambiguous way
CB10 – The students will have the learning skills allowing them to continue their formation in an autonomous way.
CT7 – Ability to make public presentations in a clear, concise and coherent way.
CT10 – Use of information from bibliography and the net.
CT11 – Use of information written in foreign languages.
Specific competences
CE4 – Appropriate knowledge and ability to develop and apply technology in the area of renewable energies in the forest and natural areas.
The teaching activity would include lectures, both expositive (16 h) and interactive (16 h), along with lab activities and field visits.
The specific methodologies to be applied are:
-Expositive and interactive lectures.
-Seminars and conferences
-Lab and field practices.
-Technical visits
-Use of virtual classroom
-Preparation of presentations
-Problem solving
- Individual tutorial
The assessment will be done as a combination of exams and works to be done both individually or in groups.
The attendance to the lectures and interactive teaching sessions. Weight of 10%.
Written tests: 60%. Competences covered: CG5, CT11, CE4
Exercise and proposed works presentation: 20%. Competences: CG5, CT10, CE4
Public presentation of works: 10%. Competences: CB9. CB10, CT7, CT10, CT11 y CE4
The working load of this course will be the corresponding to the 4 ECTS assigned. The master Memory includes 3 h of group work, 24 h of unit preparation and personal study, 8 h of exercises, 6 h of proposed exercises preparation and 14 h of test preparation, along with 5 h of test realization.
Students are recommended to have a strong interest, showing a participative attitude in the lectures.
Materia en extinción en el curso 2024/2025, sin docencia pero con derecho a la evaluación con el sistema especificado para estudiantes repetidores
Roque Rodríguez Soalleiro
- Department
- Plant Production and Engineering Projects
- Area
- Plant Production
- roque.rodriguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Maria Josefa Lombardero Diaz
- Department
- Plant Production and Engineering Projects
- Area
- Plant Production
- Phone
- 982823150
- mariajosefa.lombardero [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Juan Luis Fernández Lorenzo
- Department
- Plant Production and Engineering Projects
- Area
- Plant Production
- juanluis.fernandez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer