Professional paper

Olive cake as a source of energy

Tea Brlek ; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zavod za poljopprivrednu tehnologiju, skladištenje i transport
Neven Voća ; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zavod za poljopprivrednu tehnologiju, skladištenje i transport
Tajana Krička ; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zavod za poljopprivrednu tehnologiju, skladištenje i transport
Vanja Jurišić ; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zavod za poljopprivrednu tehnologiju, skladištenje i transport

Abstract

In the production of olive oil there is a large quantity of waste in the form of olive cake as the solid phase, and vegetation water as the liquid phase. The disposal of that waste is a legal commitment in the European Union, but the manner of that disposal hasn’t been regulated. The Regulation on Ecological Production in Plant Cultivation and Crop Production in Croatia has defined that the waste of crop production can not be used without its certain processing. Olive cake can be a valuable raw material and it can especially be well- used for the production of energy. The emphasis in this paper is on energy producing in cogenerational plants by burning olive cake pellets in furnaces for biomass. In that way the problem of olive cake as waste is solved at the same time together with ecologically acceptable production of energy.

Keywords

olive cake; biomass; energy; pellets

Hrčak ID:

163465

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/163465

Publication date:

15.7.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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