BioEnergy: Sustaining The Future

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1 BioEnergy: Sustaining The Future Regatec 2015 Barcelona May 7/8 th May 2015 Dr Megan Cooper, BESTF co-ordinator

2 Agenda What is BESTF? Why is it important? Who is involved? How does it work? What impact will it have? Some examples..

3 What is BESTF? (1) Bioenergy: Sustaining the Future A trans-national programme to support Bioenergy demonstrator projects that are close to commercialisation Goals: Encourage investment in close-to-market bioenergy projects to enable commercial availability of advanced bioenergy at large scale by 2020; Enhance synergies and collaboration between national bioenergy programmes Provide financial and managerial support to collaborative bioenergy demonstrator projects. Successful projects receive financial support from a consortium of national programmes and the European Commission via the FP7 ERANET plus programme (future schemes will fall under H2020).

4 Why is BESTF important? (1) Climate Change Energy supply & security Reduce GHG emissions Clean air, fuel, and transport Sustainable, secure and competitive energy Efficient energy use Prosperous lowcarbon future 10% of energy for transport from renewable sources by 2020 Reduce GHG emission 60 % for bio-fuels and bioliquids 20% GHG reduction 1990/ % of energy needs from renewable sources by 2020

5 Why is BESTF important? (2) Non-intermittent energy supply Can contribute towards greenhouse gas savings Bioenergy Used for heating & cooling, electricity production or transport Boost to various economic sectors eg agriculture, forestry, waste management, transportation and storage Diverse sources contribute to a diversified energy mix that improves energy security

6 Why is BESTF important? (3) Provides funding to bridge gap between applied research and demonstrator projects Leverages resources across Europe for increased impact De-risks private sector investment Resources and Deployment Increased value for money for national programmes Knowledge and skills sharing across countries and between industry and research community

7 Who is involved? (1) European Industrial Bioenergy Initiative: Industrial initiative launched under the SET Plan which aims to: enable commercial availability of advanced bioenergy at large scale by 2020 strengthen EU technology leadership BESTF helps address EIBI implementation plan European Commission DG Research & Innovation: Supports EIBI Provides financial support to BESTF projects

8 Who is involved? (2) Consortium of European national funding agencies: BESTF 1 BESTF 2 Denmark, Germany, Finland, Navarra (Spain), Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom Denmark, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom Provides increased value for money for national programmes, maximising impacts at shared (lower) cost R&D cooperation between industry and research community expands the knowledge base Focus on TRL 6/7, getting across the innovation gap

9 Who is involved? (3)

10 How does BESTF work?(1) 1 2 Consortium of Member States gain EC support for co-fund Consortium launch a trans-national call for proposals 3 4 Two stage assessment of proposals Financial support provided to successful projects

11 How does BESTF work?(2) EIBI Value Chains Thermo-chemical value chains Bio-chemical value chains

12 How does BESTF work?(3) Scope, Eligibility and Assessment Scope: Pre commercial demonstration Energy-focussed projects that address at least one of the EIBI value chains Assessment: Eligibility: Pre-commercial Demonstrates true collaboration Industry-led Innovative Energy-focussed Demonstrate value for money Appropriate sources of matched funding PLUS national eligibility requirements Scientific and/or technological excellence Quality and efficiency of the implementation and the management Potential impact

13 Expected impact of BESTF Enhanced cooperation and effective use of existing finance Promotes joint strategic planning and programming for bioenergy programmes De-risks investment in flagship plants Coordinated support to bioenergy demonstrator projects Accelerated development and deployment of innovative bioenergy technologies De-risks deployment of new value chains and technologies in the European market Creation of a coherent collaboration network Facilitates commercial availability of advanced bioenergy at large scale by 2020

14 Results to date BESTF 1 BESTF 2 Launch date Jan 2013 Dec 2013 Public funding available 43.75m 24.3m First stage proposals received Second stage proposals received 5 13 Projects selected for funding 3 6 Total public funding allocated 11.6m 14.5m Total project cost 33,456,193 22,006,282 Expected project timeline Number project in VC 2 2 2

15 BioSNG Aim: Demonstrate the conversion of a wide range of biomass resources to BioSNG at the correct international pipeline specifications for the gas grid via thermal gasification. Benefits: Alternative pathway to manufacture renewable gas from wider biomass resources, such as lignocellulosic material; One of the most cost effective and deployable low carbon heat technologies. Exploits existing networks and appliances; Viable renewable transport fuel as a drop-in CNG/LNG substitute. Objectives: Clean-up of raw bio-syngas to the ppb levels required for catalytic conversion of syngas; Enhanced hydrogen generation in the syngas through the water gas shift (as a pre-cursor to methanation, which could be separated) from biomass fuels; The production of a capture ready CO2 stream for future bio-ccs; Improved understanding of catalysis of bio-syngas at moderate pressures and with simplified process configuration compared with conventional methanation facilities; Refining of raw methanated product to meet grid injection specification requirements; Provision of design and operating data to underpin delivery of a commercial scale facility.

16 BioPRoGReSs Aim: Production of biofuels via gasification at a more cost competitive rate with fossil fuels by simplifying and reducing the costs of gas clean-up in large-scale biofuel production plants. Benefits: Potential reduction in the overall investment cost by 30%, and variable cost by 10 %; Increased volume of biofuel produced in the process by up to 10 %. Objective: Review commercially or pre-commercially available technologies for upgrading of the gas leaving a fluidized bed biomass gasifier; Demonstrate one of these technologies to provide data that can be directly used in a near future for commercial projects in bio-methane.

17 Bio-Water- Methanisation Aim: Sustainable waste and waste water treatment that provides a source of energy and nutrients, and a recyclable water resource. Benefits: Reduction of Waste Water Treatment Plant energy consumption by 70%; Reduction by 80% of net GHG emission per unit of COD removed from the influent wastewater, avoiding the oxidation of organic matter; Increased effluent quality for re-use and reduction of residuals by 50%. Objectives: To demonstrate an industrial scale Submerged Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor (SAnMBR) technology, for the treatment of waste water and urban solid organic waste. To optimise the performance of the system to improve net energy production by methane recovery from both liquid and gas phases To determine the economic feasibility of the system and quantify the environmental benefits

18 BioEnergy Sustaining The Future BESTF Contact: Dr Megan Cooper