Biorefinery Course: “ADDING VALUE TO THE SUSTAINABLE UTILISATION OF BIOMASS”
12 June 2009 - 12 June 2009
Austria
In the course the biorefinery concept will be lectured in its full scope, including: current status & developments, definition & classification, different concepts, and sustainability issues (LCA).
Biorefining is the sustainable processing of biomass into a spectrum of bio-based products (food, feed, chemicals, materials) and bioenergy (biofuels, power and/or heat)[definition IEA Bioenergy Task 42 on Biorefineries] Both product-driven biorefineries and energy-drien biorefineries can be distinguished.
In product-driven biorefineries the biomass is fractionised into a porfolio of bio-based products with maximal added-value and minimal ecological impact, after which the process residues are used for power and/or heat production, for both internal use and selling of the surplus to national grids.
In energy-driven biorefineries the biomass is primarily used for the production of secondary energy carriers (biofuels, power and/or heat); process residues are sole as feed (current situation), or even better are upgraded to added-value bio-based products, to optimize economics and ecologics of the full biomass supply chain.
The course is free of charge. It is part of the FP6 Integrated project Biosynergy http://www.biosynergy.eu(opens in new window)
Biorefining is the sustainable processing of biomass into a spectrum of bio-based products (food, feed, chemicals, materials) and bioenergy (biofuels, power and/or heat)[definition IEA Bioenergy Task 42 on Biorefineries] Both product-driven biorefineries and energy-drien biorefineries can be distinguished.
In product-driven biorefineries the biomass is fractionised into a porfolio of bio-based products with maximal added-value and minimal ecological impact, after which the process residues are used for power and/or heat production, for both internal use and selling of the surplus to national grids.
In energy-driven biorefineries the biomass is primarily used for the production of secondary energy carriers (biofuels, power and/or heat); process residues are sole as feed (current situation), or even better are upgraded to added-value bio-based products, to optimize economics and ecologics of the full biomass supply chain.
The course is free of charge. It is part of the FP6 Integrated project Biosynergy http://www.biosynergy.eu(opens in new window)