European
Biofuels Technology Platform Implementing the Strategic Research
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The Second Stakeholder Plenary Meeting of EBTP was a one day conference with a focus on demonstration of advanced biofuels technologies and innovative value chains for biofuels and bioenergy. It was attended by 200 stakeholders from across Europe. An overview of the conference is provided by the Press Release. PDFs of all presentations and posters can be viewed (subject to disclaimer) via the links below, along with a selection of photographs from the event. CVs and Abstracts for all the speakers and abstracts for the poster sessions are also available as PDFs. |
European biofuel ambitions and technology needs - European Biofuels Technology Platform highlights promising routes and discusses challenges to overcome to demonstrate innovative sustainable biofuel value chains The Renewable Energies Directive and the updated Fuel
Quality Directive recently adopted by Council and the European Parliament
are setting the framework conditions and resulting challenges to be
overcome by economic actors of current and future biofuel value chains.
At its 2nd Stakeholder Plenary Meeting held in Brussels on 22 January
2009, the European Biofuels Technology Platform (EBTP) brought together
200 actors from across Europe to discuss promising innovative routes
that could bring significant contributions towards achieving the 2020
EU objectives for biofuels. Particular focus was given to the challenges
involved in moving from pilot to demonstration, en route to full commercial
deployment. “The European Industrial Initiatives (EIIs) are a central instrument within the Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) for accelerating innovation and technology deployment,” said Raffaele Liberali, Director for Energy Research at the European Commission. While acknowledging the specific challenges faced by bioenergy stakeholders (sectoral fragmentation and competition to access feedstocks already or potentially used by other market sectors), he stressed the necessity to come up quickly with a proposal for objectives, activities and commitment from industry, so that the budgetary discussion with Member States can start as soon as possible. An update on the key issues related to the availability of sustainable biomass feedstocks for biofuels was presented by Calliope Panoutsou (Imperial College). Three new databases on ongoing R&D activities in Europe, on biofuels pilots and demonstration units in Europe, and on the ongoing debates on biofuels (sustainability, food versus fuels, etc), were presented by Birger Kerckow (FNR), from the EBTP secretariat. Markku Karlsson (UPM), presented the EBTP approach to identify and analyse innovative and sustainable biofuel and bioenergy value chains, in addition to existing bioenergy and biofuel pathways. Nine case study presentations of ongoing biofuel pilot and demonstration projects, focusing on agricultural and forestry feedstocks, residues and biowastes as well as biochemical and thermochemical conversion routes to be applied on different scales, showed the challenges to be met and ways to overcome them. It became clear that the diversity of European framework conditions will also require a number of technologies to be upscaled. The final presentation of this session provided a very useful comparison with pilot and demonstration activities in the USA. Financing demonstrations – another key issue – was addressed both from a Member State and a private equity perspective. Thomas Kaberger (Swedish Energy Agency), clearly explained that the least costly way for the public sector to contribute to the financing of the expensive and risky industrial demonstrations of innovative biofuel value chains was to reduce the risk of regulatory changes that could adversely impact them. Harry Boyle (New Energy Finance) presented data on the private equity financing of next generation biofuels, pointing out a clear imbalance between the different sides of the Atlantic, to the benefit of North American actors. A European Industrial Initiative on Bio-Energy (EII-B) could play an important role to boost the industrial deployment of the most risky and expensive innovative biofuel and bioenergy technologies. The EBTP is committed to contribute to the shaping of this initiative, and is actively preparing a proposal to be presented in the spring of 2009, said Véronique Hervouet (Total), Chair of the Steering Committee of the EBTP. |
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WELCOME and KEYNOTE ADDRESS
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IMPLEMENTING THE SRA: POLICY AND 1. The EU SET Plan and European Industrial Initiatives
2. Biofuels & Biorefinery research and demonstration
activities of the European Commission: update on recent developments
Jose Riesgo, DG Transport and Energy (photo below)
3. Availability of sustainable biomass feedstocks for biofuels: update
on key issues
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EBTP’s MAIN
CONTRIBUTIONS TO IMPLEMENTING THE STRATEGIC RESEARCH AGENDA AND PREPARING
DEMONSTRATIONS
1. Mapping activities of the EBTP: databases of
main ongoing biofuels related R&D projects, pilot & demonstration
plants and public biofuels debates
2. The identification of Bioenergy value chains of potential relevance
to EII-B
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FROM PILOTS TO DEMONSTRATION PLANTS:
1. The CHOREN Sigma Plant
2. The BTL demonstration project of Neste Oil / Stora Enso
3. UPM Biofuels development and pilot projects
4. The Bio-DME project
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FROM PILOTS TO DEMONSTRATION PLANTS:
1. Combining industrial scale biosynfuel production
with economic biomass logistics:
Nicolaus Dahmen, bioliq® Project Coordinator, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology -KIT
Armin Guenther, Air Liquide / Lurgi GmbH
2. The FUTUROL project on 2nd generation Ethanol
3. Demonstration of 2nd Generation Biofuels in Denmark
4. St1 Biofuels – small scale demonstration
on bioethanol from biowaste
5. Overview of Pilot and Demonstration Activities
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FINANCING DEMONSTRATIONS
1. Overview of Member States funding schemes
2. Private Equity funding of advanced biofuels technologies:
a European and North American outlook:
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CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK: THE NEXT
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A number of posters were displayed during the coffee and lunch breaks. Full presentations for each poster are available below. SNG production from woody biomass
Mapping of 2nd generation biofuels demonstration
plants
The GAYA project: Demonstration plants on gasification for biomethane
production
GoBiGas Project
PERSEO - lignocellulosic ethanol from MSW
BIOMAP View Poster ( 207 Kb JPEG)
The ECN/HVC project for BioSNG
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