AgroTechnologyATLAS - Information and tools

ATLAS of technologies for reducing the climate impact and environmental load of nutrients in the agro-food loop

Information about technologies, here under general description and theoretical fundamentals, applicability, figures and pictures, environmental effects, biosecurity impacts, investment price and operational costs, BAT-status and related verifications of commercial technologies on the market, scientific references, reference to commercial installations and suppliers. Click the technology group for descriptions:

INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY SCENARIO TOOLS

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ALFAM2 - interctive model for estimating ammonia volatilisation during field spreading of manure. The tool calculates the loss of nitrogen via evaporation of ammonia in connection to field spreading of slurry/liquid manure. The user can adjust decisive parametres, such as weather conditions, dose and quality of the slurry, and the type of the used field spreading technique.
Alfam 2
The 'CNP flows interactive model' illustrates the effects of CNP management at farms. The model can be used for observation of the combined effects in the entire manure / crop / feed loop of on-farm measures, such as employment of various livestock manure processing technology.
CNP flows interactive model
Biomass mixing tool. With this tool, you can make a mix of the materials in the 'ATLAS of biomasses' and see the chemical composition of the resulting mix, which for instance can be relevant for considering the optimal mix for a given processing.
Biomass mixing tool

Clean-tech for farming

Technologies for reducing the climate impact and environmental load of farming are on this web site defined as those primarily having relation to agriculture and livestock production, for instance related to EUs Nitrates Directive (91/676/EC), Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC), Industrial Emissions Directive (2010/75/EC) and Emissions Ceilings (NEC) Directive (2016/2284/EU). The technologies includes as well some Best Available Techniques, as defined in the Reference Document on Intensive Rearing of Poultry and Pigs and its related Implementing Decision (EU/2017/302).

Livestock manure separation is a processing technology that becomes more and more common in the EU.

A major issue in the mentioned EU legislation, which is transposed into national legislation in EU Member States, is the definition of technologies, techniques and practices to be used in agriculture and livestock production in order to prevent or reduce GHG emissions and the loss of plant nutriets to the environment, here under leaching, seepage, emissions and other ways of losses.

Anaereobic digestion of livestock manure, here at a plant in Spain, contribute to the reach of both environmental, climate, waste and renewable energy policies.

Meaning of 'ATLAS'

'ATLAS' according The Free Dictionary: "A volume of tables, charts, or plates that systematically illustrates a particular subject".

This Technology ATLAS is interactive: You can find data, information, illustrations, graphics and tables about the individual technologies, and in specific, you can use the provided tools for scenario calculations, for instance the biomass mix tool.

Slurry has become the most common livestock manure type in EU, and its characteristics both having advantages and drawbacks.