ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 2 Expository Class: 16 Interactive Classroom: 16 Total: 34
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Plant Production and Engineering Projects
Areas: Plant Production
Center Higher Polytechnic Engineering School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
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 this 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
Básica
-Lacal, J.A., 2023. Aplicación de la bioenergía en el ámbito industrial. Díaz de Santos. 206 pp
-Holm-Nielsen, J., & Ehimen, E. A. (Eds.). (2016). Biomass supply chains for bioenergy and biorefining. Woodhead Publishing.
Complementaria
-Camps, M., Marcos, F., 2008. Los biocombustibles. 2ª Edición. Mundi Prensa. 383 pp.
-LEY DE SANIDAD VEGETAL. BOE 279 22649 LEY 43/2002.
-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
-Energiespaverband, 2010. Biomass heating in upper Austria: green energy, green jobs. 40 pp.
-Girma H, Rao MR, Day R, Ogol CKPO. 2006. Abundance of insect pests and their effects on biomass yields of single vs. multi-species planted fallows. Agroforestry Systems. DOI 10.1007/s10457-006-9000-2
-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.
- Skevas T, Swinton SM, Meehan TD, Kimc TN, Gratton C, Egbendewe-Mondzozo A. 2014. Integrating agricultural pest biocontrol into forecasts of energy biomass production. Ecological Economics 106 (2014) 195–203
- 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
The students will know:
COM1-12. the principles and techniques applied to provide forest biomass with an energy destination, in the framework of the bioeconomy.
Students will also be able to:
HAM1-10. Design and manage woody and herbaceous energy crops.
HAM1-11. Design protection systems to keep healthy energy crops.
This subject willcontroubute to provide the following competences:
A) Specific:
CEM1-04. Knowledge and ability to develop and appy technology in the field of renewable energy in rural areas.
B) General:
CG05. Ability to develop techniques and projets in the field of renewable energy
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: COM1-12, CEM1-04 and CG05
Exercise and proposed works presentation: 20%. Competences: HAM1-10, HAM1-11 and CG05
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.
Roque Rodríguez Soalleiro
Coordinador/a- 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
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| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician, Spanish | Classroom 20 (Pav.II-PPS) |
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| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician, Spanish | Classroom 20 (Pav.II-PPS) |
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| 10:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish, Galician | Classroom 20 (Pav.II-PPS) |
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| 12:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLIL_01 | Galician, Spanish | Classroom 20 (Pav.II-PPS) |
| 01.09.2025 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Seminar I (Pav.III) |
| 06.19.2025 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Seminar I (Pav.III) |