Project description
Climate-friendly energy production from improved forest biomass supply chain
Mitigating the effects of climate change requires the replacement of fossil fuel with renewables like biomass and improved energy efficiency in combination with CO2 capture. The EU-funded EUCANwin project will address this challenge by improving the biomass supply chain and developing an efficient heat and power technology with a high share of power production, together with negative carbon emissions. The EU-Canada consortium will combine artificial intelligence with tools and technologies from the biomass supply chain to provide sustainable, long-term, and cost-efficient biomass feedstock for biopower production. The international consortium will also develop technology for the Biomass-fired Top Cycle (BTC) to achieve high-efficient electricity production. In addition, EUCANwin will determine the optimal and cost-efficient CO2 capture technology for the BTC conversion process.
Objective
Climate change is the most significant challenge for humanity today. For this reason, replacement of fossil fuels with renewables and improved energy efficiency in combination with CO2 capture is needed. Among renewables, biomass will play a major role in satisfying the human energy needs.
EUCANwin! will increase viability of the biomass supply chain from forest and develop an efficient heat and power technology with a high share of power production together with negative carbon emissions in international cooperation between EU and Canada.
In particular, to overcome these challenges, EUCANwin! involves artificial intelligence in combination with tools and technologies within the biomass supply chain such as the Forest Biomass Atlas (FBA), the tree-length harvesting (TLH) method and the On-board intelligent biomass analyser (OBIBA) to supply sustainable, long-term and cost efficient biomass feedstock for biopower production. Moreover, it will develop the technology of the Biomass-fired Top Cycle (BTC) for a high-efficient electricity production (up to 55%). And the project will finally determine the optimal and cost-efficient CO2 capture technology for the purpose of the BTC conversion process.
To do so, EUCANwin! consortium gathers the necessary experience, knowledge and resources. It successfully works as an international cooperation, by means of 10 entities from 6 different countries, including Canada and 5 EU countries (Belgium, Finland, Hungary, Spain and Sweden), among which, 2 Canadian universities, 3 RTD organisations and 5 SMEs to ensure market exploitation (2 industrial companies and 3 innovation consultancies).
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
501 15 Boras
Sweden