Funded Projects 2014-2020
Project BIOVAC
| Project Acronym | BIOVAC |
|---|---|
| Project Title | Bioprocess value chain |
Summary
The BIOVAC project aims at combining renewable energy production with different biomass conversion pathways, such as efficient direct combustion,, micro CHP, syngas and hydrothermal carbonisation while utilizing by-products and wastes from agriculture, waste water treatment plant and forest industry. Waste water, sludges and sidestreams from agriculture and industry will be utilized for biomass production via short rotation coppicing to provide raw bioresources for conversion to innovative value-added products such as fuels, sugars, carbon and chemicals. The introduction of short rotation coppicing can help reduce nutrient leakage from animal and crop husbandry, from entering and accumulating in waterways while producing local biomass resources for different conversion pathways. Through this chain both economic, ecological and social benefits can be accumulated for local societies dependent on the prevalent agriculture and industries processing local wood resources. New business opportunities generate employment and help create a critical mass by joining biomass producers with industries dependent on biomass resources and consumers. These linkages will decrease GHG emissions, improve energy efficiency and increase energy self-sufficiency through creating a new local energy resource. As a result, the BIOVAC project will produce a calculation tool for evaluating the economics and use an existing tool for ecological footprints of the whole conversion chain from biomass production to final energy products adapted for the project area but transferable to other areas taking into account local conditions.
Objectives
Innovative value-added products from biomass will be developed and demonstrated (chemicals, fuels, sugars, carbon). New raw materials and processes will be tested and developed. Finland and Sweden have developed wood processing technologies over many decades. Novel industrial solutions and testing facilities will be utilized for producing parameters for the calculation tool adaptive for the other project areas. In many areas processing of different biomasses and industrial by-products into different raw materials and fuels is still being developed and knowledge from the project area is directly transferable. Direct combustion of willow wood in energy efficient facilities will be demonstrated to increase awareness about energy saving possibilities.
Lead Partner
- University of Eastern Finland
Finland
Aki Villa
e-mail: aki.villa@uef.fi
Partners
- Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute
Northern Ireland - Institute of Technology, Sligo
Ireland - Leitrim County Council
Ireland - RISE Processum AB
Sweden - University of Eastern Finland
Finland
Project Info
| Theme Renewable energy, eco products |
| Priority 3 Renewables and Energy Efficiency |
| Objective 3 Increased use of energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions |
| Project duration 01-10-18 to 30-11-18 |
| Total budget 43 775 EUR |
| NPA co-financing 28 454 EUR |
| Target groups business support organisation EEIG, EGTC education/training centre and school interest groups including NGOs infrastructure and (public) service provider higher education and research enterprise, including SME |