14th-15th of June, Turin (Italy), the 8th AIGE-IIETA International Conference and the 18th AIGE Conference on “Energy Conversion, Management, Recovery, Saving, Storage and Renewable Systems” is taking place. BioSFerA wanted to be part of the event, bringing its contributions on the biomass and bioenergy research: Giorgia Pellegrino presented the project and the Environment Park’s work on the steam explosion for the TAGs extraction and then purification for the drop-in biofuels production.

The conferences, that gathered a wide number of experts and academic all over Europe, is mainly focused on the following topics:

• THERMODYNAMICS AND HEAT TRANSFER
• ENERGY AND ​​ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
• RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
• ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT
• POWER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

FULL PROGRAMME

This year the EUBCE 2023, the 31st European Biomass Conference&Exhibition will be held in Bologna, Italy. An important appointment falling every two years and gathering international organizations and companies to discuss about the biomass techonologies role in the decabornisation road.

From the 5th until the 8th of June, researchers and experts will meet at the conference with stands and exhibitions, several workshops and debates. BioSFerA will be part of the experience, participating at the parallel event “Bioenergy and renewable fuels projects for the revamping of the SET Plan” organized by ETIP Bioenergy, the European Technology and Innovation Platform, and ETA FLORENCE. Several projects will be present and will participate to the discussion on the bioenergy, renewable fuels and their role as Action 8 of the revamping of the SET Plan, the European Strategic Energy Technolgy Plan.

The event will happen on the 6th of June, 11:30-18:00 CEST, Modular 3 room.

Giorgia Pellegrino, from Environment Park, and Nikolaos Detsios, from CERTH, will represent the project, present results and objectives of BioSFerA in the panel “Syngas technologies, value chains, and market potential”. Appointment at 15.05.

The AGENDA is available at the official page of the EUBCE 2023, Parallel events section.

Event with free access, mandatory registration.

BioSFerA is approaching its last year of project and, with it, the downstream phase that will finally lead to the production of jet and bunker fuels resulting from our innovative biofuels production concept.

The TAG lipids, directly coming out from the fermentation process in the BBEPP’s laboratory, will be sent to the research team of CERTH based in Thessaloniki for the hydrotreatment upgrading. On the first phase, a dedicated TRL 3 hydrotreatment plant of CERTH, will be utilized to optimize the technology. On the second phase, the optimized technology will be scaled up in a TRL 5 hydrotreatment plant of CERTH for the production procedure. Finally, on the third phase, the products from TRL 5 HDT plant, will be fractionated under vacuum in a batch large fractionation unit of CERTH in order to separate the Jet and Bunker fuel fractions.

The downstream step’s trials are going to start within these months to last until the end of the project. CERTH will take care to show its process with video and step-by-step updates. The following pictures give a preview of the CERTH’s laboratory in Thessaloniki and the equipment used in BioSFerA:

TRL3 hydrotreatment plant in CERTH’s premises, Thessaloniki   

TRL5 hydrotreatment plant in CERTH’s premises, Thessaloniki

Large fractionation unit for the separation of the jet and bunker fractions from the total liquid product (Hydrotreatment unit at TRL5, CERTH’s premises in Thessaloniki)

“Recent Advances on Alternative Aviation Fuels/Pathways: A Critical Review” is the new scientific paper published by our coordinator CERTH on the Energies journal (MDPI).

The paper is a critical summary of the current alternative aviation fuels/pathways and a comparative analysis of the dominant technologies considering techno-economic assessment, environmental evaluation, and future projections. Final considerations are also performed on the policy framework aiming to promote and boost all the SAFs in industry. Reading recommended!

COMPLETE ARTICLE

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en16041904

Today, the Biomass Day 2023 event is taking place in Athens. The Greek conference is dedicated to the bioenergy role in the energy crisis and gathers public authorities and main scientific community representatives to deal with this topic.

Considering the Russia-Ukraine war and global geopolitical conflicts, it is always increasingly difficult to operate bearing in mind the decarbonization and climate neutrality European goals, as set by the Green New Deal and the Fitfor55 plan. The conference guides the discussion on the active role of the bioenergy in our economy to answer some questions: how can the contribution of bioenergy in the expansion and diversification of EU energy sources be easily and consistently ensured through the “RePowerEU” project? Is there a possibility in Greece and the EU of a more substantial energy use of biomass to alleviate the unsustainable energy costs of industries, commercial companies /services and households?

BioSFerA partecipates at the debate having our coordinator Konstantinos Atsonios (CERTH) as representative and handling a presentation on “Gasification technologies for the production of liquid and gaseous biofuels and their contribution to sustainable transport”.

For the full presentation (in greek) CLICK HERE.