Through the use of innovative technologies, the LIFE Methamorphosis project enables to obtain reclaimed water with lower energy consumption and also to produce biomethane from municipal and agro-industrial waste for…
Category: biopower
From municipal biowaste to soluble bioorganic substances – LIFECAB Project
LIFECAB is a R&D project, co-funded by the EU LIFE Program (LIFE16 ENV/IT/000179), which aims to demonstrate a new process to treat municipal biowaste (MBW) and produce soluble bioorganic substances…
Lignin-based carbon fibre for lighter cars – GreenLight Project
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.…
Cutting-Edge Technologies for Renewable Energy Production and Storage: MDPI Call for Manuscripts Open
Applied Sciences, an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI, is looking for contributions to the Special Issue “Cutting-Edge Technologies for Renewable Energy Production and Storage”. The keys…
Microbes with Graphene Nano Sheets for Improved Bioelectricity Production
Researchers have been constantly looking out for ways for harnessing the electroactive microorganisms for bioelectricity production, microbial electrolysis, electromethanogenesis, and electro-fermentation. Electron transfer resistance between the microorganisms-electrodes remains a major…
STORE&GO: Power-to-gas for an Innovative CO2-neutral Energy transition
“Climate change is the biggest market failure the world has ever seen”, stated Nicholas Stern already in 2006 [Stern, N. (2006). The Stern Review – The Economics of Climate Change].…
Opportunities for small-scale biomass power in Japan
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the 3rd International Biomass Expo in Tokyo, Japan’s largest show for biomass power generation, held in the framework of the World Smart Energy Week…
The role of woody biomass in contributing to EU 2020 renewable energy target
The European Union has set ambitious targets of raising the share of EU energy consumption produced from renewable resources from 20% by 2020 to 27% by 2030. A study by…
Forest residues for bioenergy with CCS – a tool for global cooling?
Biomass from forestry residues such as thinning and harvest operations is often cited as an underutilized resource that could be mobilized for energy production. In many cases the residues of…
Dynamic biogas upgrading for renewable energy integration
Electricity generated from renewable energy sources contributes more than one quarter of the EU-28’s gross electricity consumption. Although hydropower remains the single largest source for renewable electricity generation, electricity produced…