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Assessing energy return on investment for harvest of wild Nodularia spumigena during blooms in the Baltic Sea
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Sustainable development, Environmental science and Engineering, Water and Environmental Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4181-0571
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Sustainable development, Environmental science and Engineering, Water and Environmental Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3745-4092
2021 (English)In: Journal of Industrial Ecology, ISSN 1088-1980, E-ISSN 1530-9290Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Recurring summer cyanobacteria blooms in the Baltic Sea has gained academic interests for decades. The harvest of wild cyanobacteria, for example, Nodularia spumigena, during summer blooms in the Baltic Sea has been studied in the past but lacked evaluation for environmental and economic performances. This study provides a first-hand assessment of environmental and economic performance from an energy perspective, using energy return on investment (EROI) as evaluation method where harvest of biomass and the downstream conversion of biomass to biogas and biofertilizer are considered for Gotland, Sweden. Energy analysis results indicate fuel consumption during harvest and transport operations to be the major energy consumer. Traditional sailing boats have been suggested as an alternative. Overall, when considering only biogas yield and usage of sailing boats, a break-even EROI of 1 is achieved. When including biofertilizer as product, a breakeven EROI of 1 is also achieved. Depending upon the biomass concentration in the Baltic Sea at the time of harvest, an EROI > 6 is possible, surpassing the economic viability EROI benchmark of 3, indicating the importance of nutrient recovery as the driver for harvest of wild cyanobacteria biomass during blooms in the Baltic Sea. This article met the requirements for a gold-gold JIE data openness badge described at http://jie.click/badges. 

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Wiley , 2021.
Keywords [en]
Baltic Sea, biofertilizer, cyanobacteria harvesting, energy return on investment, industrial ecology, nutrient recovery, Biogas, Biomass, Boats, Fertilizers, Gold, Harvesting, Profitability, Biomass concentrations, Cyanobacteria blooms, Economic viability, Energy perspectives, Energy return on investments, Environmental and economic performance, Nodularia spumigena, Transport operations, Investments
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-310391DOI: 10.1111/jiec.13170ISI: 000672489900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85109740353OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-310391DiVA, id: diva2:1649279
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Available from: 2022-04-04 Created: 2022-04-04 Last updated: 2022-06-25Bibliographically approved

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