Modellbasierte Berechnung von Kraftstoffverbräuchen landwirtschaftlicher Verfahrensketten

Abstract

Many factors determine the fuel consumption of agricultural process chains. The farm structure, the machinery and equipment or the type and design of process steps are some examples. A simulation model developed within the research project “Efficient fuel use in agricultural technology” (EKoTech) enables model-based calculations of fuel consumption during plant production. Model farms provide the basis for the simulation computations. They describe relevant representative agricultural regions in Germany and other European countries for various process chains as a virtual image of an average farm in the respective region. The presented simulation results quantify the development of fuel consumption in the identified process chains from 1990 through 2015 to 2030 and estimate the saving potentials of selected technologies for a fuel consumption reduction.