Project: Manure management for methane mitigation - Improved inventory modelling to support policy actions

Acronym	M4Models (Reference Number: 39314)
Duration	01/12/2019 - 30/11/2022
Project Topic	Manure management is a main source of methane (CH4) emissions. Mitigation options such as biogas treatment exist, but effects cannot be verified and are not accounted for in inventories. A new method to estimate CH4 emissions from manure will be used to investigate farm-level greenhouse gas mitigation, and for upscaling to national inventories. Partners are DE, DK (coord.), NL, SE and the company Bioprocess Control (BPC). BPC will develop a new incubator to quantify CH4 production rates and volatile solids degradation. Experiments will study effects of feeding, biogas treatment and storage on CH4 emissions from manure. All partners will quantify CH4 production rates in manure from pig and cattle farms; volume and temperature are studied with sensors. Results are used to parameterise submodels of daily CH4 emission for use in country-specific models based on FarmAC. GHG mitigation scenarios, incl C storage and N use efficiency, will be studied and the results upscaled for inventories.
Network	ERA-GAS
Call	2018 Joint Call

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	Aarhus University	Coordinator	Denmark
2	Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy	Partner	Germany
3	Wageningen University and Research	Partner	Netherlands
4	Research Institutes of Sweden	Partner	Sweden
5	Lund University	Partner	Sweden
6	Bioprocess Control Sweden AB	Partner	Sweden