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Assessment of the influencing and reduction potential on off-gassing of pellets during storage to increase storage security
Wood pellets may release various component during transportation and storage. Thus, relatively high concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), various volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and methane (CH4) may occur in pellet storages....
ÖKO-OPT-AKTIV - Optimised control and operating behaviour of thermally activated buildings in future urban districts
Starting point / motivation
In the efforts to make urban energy systems more environmentally friendly and at the same time more cost-efficient, a large savings potential has been demonstrated in recent decades through improved building envelopes and...
ÖKO-OPT-QUART Economically optimized control and operating behavior of complex energy networks of future city districts
Starting point/motivation
In future city districts, the focus on a reasonable combination of different, where possible renewable energy sources is increasing. However, the resulting energy networks are getting more and more complex. This increase of...
Barrel / day Fischer Tropsch
The objective of the COMET project "Barrel / day Fischer Tropsch" is the planning, construction and operation of a plant for the production of Fischer-Tropsch (FT) products (diesel, kerosene and biowaxes from wood) in the scale of one barrel per day of...
Bi-directional integration of buildings with heat production capacities in heating grids 2+
Heat grids are an excellent way to integrate renewable energy sources into a universal heat supply system and thus reduce CO2 emissions and other environmental impacts. At the moment, however, many locally available heat sources remain unused. In...
Bio-Electric Syngas Technology for the Production of Biomass Derived BioFuels and Platform Chemicals
Recent findings indicate that electro-fermentation provides an efficient tool to influence bacterial metabolism and product formation. The project BesTECH aims at developing an electrically enhanced bioconversion process to establish a biotechnological...
Bulletin "Biobased Future" to support Networking Activities between Stakeholders of a Biobased Industry in Austria
BIOENERGY 2020+ publishes the bulletin Biobased Future, which is financed by the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT). The bulletin focuses on R&D activities and results, national and international networking activities as...
Development of micro-cogeneration with thermogenerators as a modular integrated system for biomass boilers
For the operation of pellet heating systems (boilers, furnaces) electrical energy for fuel transportation, water pumping, control, and induced draft fan is required which is usually taken from the grid. Thus, the heat generation is dependent from the...
ENERGY BARGE - Building a Green Energy and Logistics Belt
The overall objective of ENERGY BARGE is to foster sustainable usage of biomass for energy production in the Danube Region and to increase the share of environmentally friendly biomass-transport on the Danube. It builds on national initiatives existing...
EvEmBi – Evaluation and reduction of methane emissions from different European biogas plant concepts
The project “EvEmBi – Evaluation and reduction of methane emission from different biogas plant concepts” aims on supporting biogas plant operators to reduce methane emission, where necessary by providing accurate measuring data of methane emissions....
FT2Chemicals - Upgrading FT Products for Industry
Synopsis:
Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis is capable to convert renewable syngas (CO and H2) to hydrocarbons and thus, provide commodities like high quality diesel fuel, kerosene and basic chemicals. The synthesis of high molecular hydrocarbons...
FT4Industry - FT bio refinery for industrial applications
Synopsis:
In the last 10 years R&D was focused on the utilization of FT products for the production of advanced biofuels. FT diesel and kerosene are high quality biofuels with excellent combustion behaviour, nearly no soot formation during the...
GrateAdvance
Flexibly adjustable grate systems are major prerequisites for combustion systems that can be operated with different types and qualities of biomass fuels, and to ensure low emissions and high operational security regarding slag handling at the same...
Heat-to-fuel
Synopsis:
Heat-to-Fuel is a Horizon 2020 EU-funded project carried out by 14 partners from across Europe that aims to deliver the next generation of biofuel production technologies supporting the decarbonisation of the transportation sector. The...
Mixed Alcohols from Biomass Steam Gasification III
In BIOENERGY 2020+ research and development on the synthesis of mixed alcohols is done since 2010. Within the past projects a lab-scale plant was built and operated, where about 1 Nm³/h of synthesis gas was processed. The main investigations were...
Model Based Control of Fluidized Bed Biomass Steam Gasification
Plants based on dual fluidized bed (DFB) gasification are a season- and weather-independent, sustainable and decentralized option to provide electricity, heat and gas. These DFB plants are on the verge of profitability due to high prices for raw...
Model-based control of absorption heat pumping systems
Absorption heat pumping systems (AHPS, comprising heat pumps and chillers) use thermal instead of mechanical energy as driving power and are therefore considered a promising way to increase the share of renewable energies in the heating and cooling...
MoREIntegrALBiomass - Model-based control and electrostatic precipitator integration for low-emission combustion of alternative biomass fuels
In today's biomass furnaces, problematic biomass fuels such as agricultural fuels (e.g. straw), waste wood, energy grasses as well as residues from the agricultural industry (cores, shells etc.) remain unused in many cases or can only be used in...
Potential of Thermal Steam Biomass Gasification for the production of Hydrogen, SNG, Electricity and District heat
Steam gasification of biomass offers a great potential for polygeneration concepts, which aim at the generation of various products from a single feedstock. The dual fluidized bed biomass steam gasification of biomass generates a N2 free product with...
Process development for the production of a biobased fertilizer with metered nutrient release
Meat processing companies generate large amounts of waste that require complex and costly treatment based on national and European hygiene regulations. Usually this type of waste is processed in rendering plants (TKV) which require large amounts of...
Reactor optimization by membrane enhanced operation
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ROMEO is a European Research and Innovation Project funded by the European Commission. It is developing a new reactor concept using homogeneous catalysis and membrane technology to carry out chemical synthesis and downstream processing in a single...
Recirculation of Algae-process water for saving Resources and reduce Wastewater
In the last years the research on algae cultivation as well as algae production for food and feed additives, cosmetics, pigments and 3rd generation biofuels increased in Europe, and especially in Lower Austria, where five companies have been active in...
Recycling of Nutrients From Agro-Industrial Residues Through the Cultivation of Microalgae as Fish Feed
The Interreg-project ATCZ221 – Algae4Fish aims at the utilization of agro-industrial residues as basis for the production of high quality live food for breeding commercially relevant fish species such as pike perch. The technology for implementing this...
Resource-efficient fuel additives for reducing ash related operational problems in waste wood combustion
Waste wood combustion provides economic advantages compared to the use of virgin biomass fuels but also results in ash related problems such as slagging, fouling and corrosion. Resource-efficient fuel additives such as recycled gypsum provide the...
Revaluation of residues from biogas plants (fermentation residue, sewage sludge) for the production of algae biomass for the feed industry
By anaerobic digestion of organic residuals and wastes high amounts of digestate and sludge arise. The liquid fraction of these sludges is often not used. The recirculation and use of the therein contained nutrients is beneficial to increase the...
The Green Parking Space – Utilization of urban traffic areas for production of biomass
Some traffic and parking areas in the urban environment are only used during limited periods. This is true, for example, for parking spaces in large, peripherally located cinemas, which are usually only occupied to a significant extent in the evening...
Up2ndUse - Upgrading of waste to secondary raw materials and fuels
The overall objective is the upgrading of forest residues, residues of the wood processing industry and biogenic wastes into secondary raw materials and fuels for material and energetic utilization. In coordination with the project partners following...
VergRestWert
Thermal gasification in dual fluidized bed systems is an efficient method to generate electricity and heat from biomass and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. High operating costs due to the utilization of the catalytically active bed material olivine...
Waste2Value
Construction has started on a new pilot plant in Vienna, Austria, which will demonstrate the conversion of waste materials into eco-friendly and carbon-neutral fuels. At the site of a hazardous waste incineration plant in the urban area of Vienna, BEST...