- Modelling new sustainable cropping systems for advanced biofuel production
- Parenti, Andrea <1988>
Subject
- AGR/02 Agronomia e coltivazioni erbacee
Description
- Through the re-use of empirical functions and new model development, this study aims at contributing to the development of advanced biofuels in Europe. Four lignocellulosic crops were selected and tested in stand-alone (sunn hemp – Crotalaria juncea L.) and rotation system (sunn hemp, biomass sorghum - Sorghum bicolor x Sorghum sudangrass, kenaf - Hibiscus cannabinus L. and industrial hemp - Cannabis sativa L.) in different European environments. The first Chapter deals with a new model development (SunnGro) to reproduce sunn hemp, an interesting summer crop for advanced biofuels in Europe; in the second Chapter, the same model was used to simulate 20-year sunn hemp productivity across Europe. The SunnGro model reproduces sunn hemp development and growth, while providing a detailed description of leaf/branch size heterogeneity and its evolution during the vegetative season, depending on thermal time accumulation (GDD), sowing time (ST) and density (SD). The model was calibrated and evaluated using 20 sunn hemp field datasets collected in Greece, Spain and Italy. Interesting correlations were found between simulated and measured values of branch and leaf number (0.80
Date
- 2020-04-01
Type
- Doctoral Thesis
- PeerReviewed
Format
- application/pdf
Identifier
urn:nbn:it:unibo-26058
Parenti, Andrea (2020) Modelling new sustainable cropping systems for advanced biofuel production, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Scienze e tecnologie agrarie, ambientali e alimentari