Descripción del proyecto
Zanjar el debate de alimentos contra combustibles
Los biocombustibles se obtienen a partir de plantas y ayudan a reducir los efectos del transporte en el cambio climático. Aunque han surgido como una solución fundamental para la descarbonización del transporte, su problema principal sigue siendo el riesgo del cambio indirecto de uso de la tierra, esto es, cuando las tierras de los suelos agrícolas destinados a abastecer los mercados alimentarios y forrajeros pasan a ser utilizadas para la producción de combustibles a partir de biomasa. En el proyecto CERESiS, financiado con fondos europeos, se desarrollará una innovación sostenible facilitando la descontaminación del suelo mediante la fitorremediación con una serie de cultivos energéticos prometedores, e investigando nuevas tecnologías de conversión de biocombustibles y separación de contaminantes, para producir biocombustibles limpios. Al congregar al mundo académico, organizaciones, institutos de investigación y pymes, el proyecto resolverá el problema del riesgo indirecto de cambio de uso de la tierra mediante la utilización y descontaminación de terrenos anteriormente contaminados.
Objetivo
Biofuels are one of few options for decarbonizing transport in the short to medium term. However, they are often criticised for indirect land use change (ILUC), which is critical due to lack of high quality agricultural land and increasing world population. At the same time, significant contaminated land areas remain unused.
CERESiS aims to provide a win-win sustainable solution to both issues by facilitating land decontamination through phytoremediation, growing energy crops to produce clean biofuels. In the longer term, this will increase the land available for agriculture, while producing non-ILUC biofuel.
The project is based on three pillars. The phytoremediation pillar will identify a range of promising energy crops, focusing on key contaminants worldwide. They will be trialed in North, South, Eastern Europe and Brazil, with samples characterised and converted to biofuels.
The technological pillar will optimize two clean biofuel conversion technologies, Supercritical Water Gasification & Fast Pyrolysis integrated with novel contaminant separation technologies, focusing on eliminating, stabilising or retrieving the contaminants in an easy to manage form.
The Decision Support pillar will develop an open access, modular and expandable Decision Support System able to identify optimal solutions for each application. It will incorporate land, phytoremediation, technological, economic, environmental parameters providing critical information to stakeholders & policy makers on the suitability of combinations of phytoremediation strategies and conversion technologies for particular sites, contaminants, environmental restrictions etc. It will include Techno-economic analysis of pathways, LCA & LCC, supply chain optimization, and performance assessment against SDG goals.
Partners from five EU countries, Ukraine, Brazil and Canada representing the entire value chain collaborate for the development and assessment of the integrated pathways.
Ámbito científico
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Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-LC-SC3-2020-RES-RIA
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
157 80 ATHINA
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