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Applied bioeconomy:

agricultural residues for

improved biomass production

Nicolai David Jablonowski

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH - IBG-2: Plant Sciences 22.05.2014

22.05.2014 IBG-2: Plant Sciences 2/27

Research and development on 2.2 square kilometres

FZJ research areas: Founded:

11 December 1956

Employees:

5 300 (total)

482 PhD students

872 visiting scientists


Energy and EnvironmentHow can we transform the energy sector? How can

we live and work in a sustainable manner and protect the

environment?

Soil researchPlant researchClimate research

Efficient

power plants

Nuclear waste

disposal research

New storage

technologies

FusionPhotovoltaicsFuel cell and

hydrogen research

Biotechnology


• 140 employees

• 45 researchers

• 25 PhD students

• Bioeconomy

• Plant phenotyping

Forschungszentrum Jülich

IBG-2: Plant Scienceswww.fz-juelich.de/ibg/ibg-2


October 2012 :

Contract between EMBRAPA and

IBG-2

EMBRAPA representative in

Germany at IBG-2:

Dr. Paulo Herrmann

September 2013:

Opening ceremony of LABEX-GIB

LABEX Germany in Brazil (LABEX-GIB)

left: EMBRAPA president Dr.

Mauricio Lopes; right: Head of IBG-2

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schurr

More information: Labex Europe -

Portal Embrapa


Associates and partners

Cooperation with industry:

Bayer, RWE, Evonik, Henkel,

evocatal, GFP, breeders,

Phytowelt and others

Brasil

India

China

•54 institutes

•1200 employees

•Joint technology platforms

•One of the largest Bioeconomy

institutions in Europe


Multidisciplinary and cross-sectorial education

- Many sciences are needed

• Biotechnology

• Chemistry

• Systems Biology

• Informatics/ Robotics/

Engineering

• Processing - Engineering

• Plant Sciences and Genetics

• Geosciences

• Ecology

• Agro Sciences

Economy, Social Sciences, Political Sciences, Communication and Media

Soil

Nurients

Water

Plant Biomass

and Performance

Chemicals and

Pharmaceuticals

Fuels and

EnergyFood and

Nutrition


Design and application of

robotics and informatics

• Automation and Integration

• Quantitative Image Analysis

specialized plant growth facilities

• UV-transparent greenhouse

• Fully automated growth chambers

• Field positioning systems

databases, computing and

experimental planning tools

• Plant Information System

• Environment Data Base


Experimental approaches

• Tests at greenhouse and outdoor conditions


• Application of non-invasive phenotyping technologies to quantify the

dynamics of plant growth

Study of crop growth dynamics by shoot imaging

Study of growth dynamics by remote

sensing of plant height



Analysis of root system architecture in soil-filled rhizotrons

• rhizotron and rhizosphere measurements for analyzing

responses of root structures to fertilizer applications



CCD camera


S. Blossfeld, C. Schreiber, G. Liebsch, A. Kuhn, P. Hinsinger (2013) Annals of Botany

M. Faget, S. Blossfeld, P. v. Gillhaußen, U. Schurr, V. Temperton (2013) Frontiers in Plant Science

S. Blossfeld (2013) Plant and Soil


Experimental approaches: Miniaturized

spectrometer for UAVs


• Using marginal lands for plant biomass production

• Using „digestates“ or other biogenic residues to

increase soil fertility for improved plant production

Scientific goals:

• Process-understanding and establishment

of low-energy, self-sustaining agricultural

systems for plant biomass production

• Prevention from land-use conflicts or “food

versus fuel“ controversy

Plant biomass and residues experiments:

Background & scopeMain questions: can we maintain a plant-soil-system for a

sustainable production of plant biomass, at low energy

input conditions using perennial plants, and through re-

application of plant residues (e.g. „digestates“) as soil

conditioners/fertilizers?


Background & scope

Amount of

digestates in

Germany 2010:

60 million tons


Background & scope


German-Brazilian collaboration projects:

1.: PURESBioProcess understanding and usage of residues for

sustainable plant biomass production


Institution Barzlian Partner

EMBRAPA, Pesquisadora Sistemas de Produção

Sustentáveis

Embrapa Clima Temperado/

Embrapa Temperate Agriculture

Partner 1:

Dr. Rosane Martinazzo

[email protected]

Dr. Carlos Augusto Posser Silveira

[email protected]

Dr. Adilson Luis Bamberg [email protected]

MSc. Ricardo Alexandre Valgas

[email protected]

Prof. Sandro Giacomini (Universidade Federal de Santa

Maria) - [email protected]

CTBE – Laboratório Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia do

Bioetanol - CNPEM | CTBE/ Brazilian Bioethanol Science

and Technology Laboratory

Partner 2:

Dr. Henrique Coutinho Junqueira Franco

[email protected]

Dr. Camila Caldana

[email protected]

Federal Institute of Goiás (IFG), Campus Goiânia

Federal University of Applied Sciences

Rua 75, no. 46, Centro, Goiânia, CEP: 74055-110, Brazil

*Federal University of Goiás – UFG, Agronomy

Department

Campus Samambaia

Rodovia Goiânia / Nova Veneza, Km 0 - Caixa Postal 131,

CEP 74690-900, Goiânia, GO, Brazil

Partner 3:

Prof. Dr. Joachim Werner Zang

[email protected]

Prof. Dr. Warde A. da Fonseca-Zang

[email protected]

Prof. Dr. Sérgio Botelho de Oliveira

[email protected]

*Prof. Dr. Wilson Mozena Leandro

[email protected]

Brazilian partners

mailto:[email protected]












Aims & scope

• Evaluating the effects of biogenic residues

as fertilizers and soil conditioners with regard

to plant performance, biomass yield, soil

carbon and soil conditions (e.g. water

holding capacity)

• Considering marginal soils (i.e. unfertile, low-

yielding soils) for plant biomass production

and simultaneous improvement of these

soils via incorporation of biogenic residues

• Investigating plant-soil interaction in the

rhizosphere at various soil and fertility

conditions, plant availability of added

nutrients

• Application of phenotyping technologies to

investigate the root development at various soil

conditions


Aims & scope

• Analyses of plant biomass, biogenic

residues and soils with regard to

nutrient content, nutrient fluctuations and

nutrient availability

• Modeling of water and nutrient

dynamics in soils treated with biogenic

residues and the respective plant growth

• Analysis of pesticide behavior in soils

treated with residues

• List of recommendations for residues

application adapted to its location


Aims & scope

Realization plan and expected knowledge gain:

• Sustainable soil usage: Systematic analysis provide important

information for the use of biogenic residues, soil fertility and plant

growth

• Process understanding: Analysis of plant-soil interaction may

provide important information for biomass yield

• Cropping optimization: Knowledge-based recommendations

for agricultural management

• Technology development: Phenotyping technology for non-

invasive plant analysis and technology for residues applications,

transfer of knowledge for sugarcane production

• Strengthening and developing national and international

research collaborations in terms of a sustainable bio-economy


German-Brazilian collaboration projects:

2.: ASHESRecycling of nutrients from residues of thermo-

chemical processing of bagasse/ straw


Brazilian partners

Kontakt

Prof. Dr. Fernando Galembeck

[email protected]

rg.br

Prof. Dr. Joachim Werner Zang

[email protected]

Prof. Dr. Warde A. da Fonseca-

Zang

[email protected]

Luiz Sávio Medeiros Teixeira

luiz.savio.teixeira@agricultura.

gov.br

Wilson Mozena Leandro

[email protected]

Institution

CNPEM

Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and

Materials

IFG

Federal Institute of Goiás Campus Goiânia

LANAGRO/MAPA

Laboratório Nacional Agropecuário /

Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e

Abastecimento

UFG

Universidade Federal de Goiás, Escola de

Agronomia e Engenharia de Alimentos,

Goiânia, Goiás


Aims & scope

The following challenges have to be tackled

and integrated to a sustainable system:

• balancing matter fluxes and timing of

availability of residues

• Evaluation of mass fluxes of bagasse,

resulting ashes, and ashes-based fertilizer

quality, and nutrient availability for crops

In order to achieve these goals close collaboration of the following disciplines/

expertizes is necessary:

• Engineering of combustion and gasification processes

• Analytical chemistry

• Formulation of nutrients and agri-engineering

• Screening of uptake efficiency of nutrients in plants

• Field-testing of selected combinations of application (mode of thermochemical

treatment, formulation, Agri-technological application, crop species)


Aims & scope at IBG-2 within ASHES

• Modified ashes will be tested to determine the bioavailability of plant

nutrients such as phosphorous

• Sugarcane as one of the target plants will be cultivated and

reproduced for the experimental approaches

• Evaluating the fertilizing potential of pure, non-modified ashes

obtained from Brazilian sugar mills in comparison with regular

fertilization, applying maize, soy and sugarcane as test plants

• Investigation of modified ashes/ash based fertilizers at different

levels in different substrates

• Analysis of rhizosphere processes employing rhizotrons and planar

optodes

• Dissemination of results: conference contributions and publications


Thanks for your attention!

Questions and comments are appreciated!

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