The REHAP project is transforming agricultural and forestry waste into high added value products for the construction sector, reducing energy-use and CO2 emissions. Agricultural and forestry residues are being used in many new innovative ways, with the bio-based chemical industry now showing greater growth than the petrochemical industry. The development of chemicals and materials from lignocellulosic…
Ingelia Italia S.p.a. announces the development of a commercial Hydrothermal Carbonization in Tuscany, Italy, which will process 80,000 tn/y of civil sewage sludge. The plant, developed and designed by Ingelia for ACEA, will be the largest designed so far, and it will transform sewage sludge in two high value products: a biolignite, and a biofertilizer,…
The vision of the GreenLight project is to utilise lignin, a wood component that is a large by-product from pulp mills, as raw material for green and cost-efficient carbon fibres. Biobased cost-efficient carbon fibres would enable an increased replacement of steel with carbon fibre composites in cars. This would in turn decrease the weight and…
SABANA project was launched at December 2016 for the implementation in Almería of an Excellence Center for research and development of microalgae biotechnology. This is a four-year project on which a demonstration plant of developed technologies of 5 ha of surface will be installed, with capacity to produce up to 300 tonnes per year of…
Gas, oil and lignite are widely used in Eastern Europe. The efficient generation of heat and electricity using woody biomass, however, is still in its infancy. The EU Horizon 2020 funded project BioRES – Sustainable Regional Supply Chains for Woody Bioenergy introduces the concept of “Biomass Logistic and Trade Centres” (BLTCs) in Serbia, Croatia and…
The “Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda” (SRIA) of the EERA Joint Programme on Bioenergy aligns research efforts across borders and provides guidance for policymakers to help decarbonise the energy sector by means of bioenergy. Researchers from 36 organisations in 18 countries, organised in the EERA Joint Programme on Bioenergy, published yesterday a “Strategic Research and Innovation…
The Open Clouds for Research Environments (OCRE) is a Horizon 2020 project funded by the European Union which aims to enable and facilitate research institutions to use commercial digital services in a safe and easy manner. Thus, to accelerate cloud adoption in the European research community by bringing together cloud providers, Earth Observation (EO) organisations…
The Horizon 2020 Dall Energy Biomass System (DEBS) Project has developed a new, disruptive biomass furnace that reduces dust and particle emissions by more than 90%. It can easily meet the demands in the new EU emission directive and offer a whole new set of other benefits compared to current state-of-the-art, the well-known grate combustion…
The Horizon 2020 PANACEA project aims to set up a thematic network to foster the effective exchange between research, industry and the farming community in order to design the penetration path of Non-food Crops (NFC) into European agriculture. Non-food Crops (NFC) are used to produce a wide range of bio-products and bioenergy. In spite of…
The DAFIA Project is funded by the EU Research and Innovation Programme Horizon 2020. It aims at reducing the heavy dependency on fossil resources by converting municipal solid waste (MSW) and marine rest raw material (MRRM) into high added value products. Nowadays in Europe approximately 150 million tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) are landfilled every year. Furthermore, more than…