Bioenergy-Technology-Database (BET.db)

Bioenergy is a crucial element of the future energy system with many applications in the electricity, heat or transport sector. A major challenge for the analysis and optimisation of bioenergy systems is the degree of diversity and complexity compared to other energy technology domains like wind or solar energy. Bio-Energy Technology database (BET.db) should be a coherent data base to encompass the different entities such as bioresources, conversation process and process chains. BET.db was developed by merging various existing datasets into a SQLite database. The resulting BET.db provides consistent sets for 141 biogenic raw materials as well as energy carriers, 259 conversation technologies and 134 supply concepts for energy provision as well as many other items. We have valiate the usability of BET.db by connecting the Bioenergy Optimisation Model (BENOPT). For this use case we can ensure a transparent and reproducible data source for such modeling tasks.

This is an update of the intial version 0.1. Major revisions was made on changing tables and attribute names and subsequently affected views. Also the layout of the database schema was refurbished, were graphical connections between foreign and primary keys are altered to the crow's foot notation, according to Crow's_foot_notation in wikipedia.org or rather the Crow’s Feet Are Best - blog post .