Innovative Large-Scale Production of Affordable Clean Burning Solid Biofuel and Water in Southern Africa: transforming bush encroachment from a problem into a secure and sustainable energy source

Project Information

SteamBioAfrica

Grant agreement ID: 101036401

DOI

10.3030/101036401

Project closed

EC signature date 6 September 2021

Start date 1 September 2021

End date 31 August 2024

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy

Total cost

€ 11 725 328,75

EU contribution

€ 9 937 771,26

Coordinated by

AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Spain

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Deliverables

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Demonstration of Integrated SHS Plant Operation

Operate integrated SHS plant at CCF. Process a minimum of two different biomass materials from each of Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana. Each material processed for at least 96 hours.Aim:Produce over 500 tonnes of solid biofuel

Documents, reports (3)

Consumer feedback report covering household consumers and industrial consumers

Undertake stakeholder workshops. Workshops to provide an understanding of potential market barriers and potential opportunities for use of solid biofuel from the SHS process in the domestic consumer markets. Aim:To produce strategies that can be deployed post project in commercial sales.

Final Communications Report

To ensure effective communication of the project to both targeted audiences and to the wider public. To ensure recognition of EU Horizon 2020 funding support for this project is clearly displayed.Aim:To provide a record of targeted communication activities undertaken during the project.

Baseline report and analysis on local market and consumer profiles

To carry out baseline surveys with consumer groups in Botswana Namibia and South Africa The surveys will collect social and economic information regarding biofuel useAimTo provide a baseline analysis of energy consumption To create an understanding of consumer sectors and preferences

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project Web Site

To design and set up a project specific web site Clearly identify on web site the EU support received and the identities of all partners To host and actively manage the web site for the duration of the project and for a minimum of three years post projectAimTo enable high visibility of the project and help create new contacts

Publications

Other (7)

Innovative large-scale production of affordable clean burning solid biofuel and water in southern africa

Author(s): Adriana Ballón Ossio, Kartika Anggraeni, Marianne Magnus-Melgar, Joshua Aseto, Huw Parry
Published in: 2022
Publisher: SteamBioAfrica, CSCP

EU Clean Energy Newsletter

Author(s): European Commission
Published in: 2024
Publisher: European Commission

Researchers contemplate Bio fuel for Otjozondjupa's woes

Author(s): NUST
Published in: 2023
Publisher: NUST

Biobrandstof van indringerbos kom gou

Author(s): Elvira Hattingh
Published in: Republikein Newspaper, Namibia, 2023
Publisher: Republikein Newspaper

New solutions for secure and affordable energy across Southern Africa

Author(s): SteamBioAfrica
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Cordis-Research Results, Publications Office of the European Union

Biofuel from Invasive Biomass

Author(s): Etango Magazine
Published in: Etango Magazine, 2023
Publisher: Etango

The story of Namibian bush: Turning problems into opportunities

Author(s): Ina Wilkie, Mirja Stoldt
Published in: Conservation Namibia Magazine, 2023
Publisher: Conservation Namibia

Conference proceedings (4)

Value chain development of a clean-burning solid biofuel in southern Africa

Author(s): Joshua Aseto, Kartika Anggraeni, Adriana Ballón Ossio (CSCP)
Published in: Tropentag 2023 - Competing pathways for equitable food systems transformation: tradeoffs and synergies (Tropentag) , Berlin, Germany, 20-23 September 2023 (Session Renewable energy and circular economy in the frame of water-food-energy nexus), 2023
Publisher: SteamBioAfrica

Relating bush encroachment density of savanna soils in the Kalahari district in Botswana to soil organic matter stocks and quality

Author(s): José María García de Castro Barragán, Nnyaladzi Batisani, Flora Pule-Meulenberg, Lawrence Akanyang, José María de la Rosa Arranz, M. Rocio Reinoso Limones, and Heike Knicker
Published in: Abstract Book of EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, 2024
Publisher: EGU
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-588

Controlled bush harvesting as a means for restoring soil of encroached savannahs in Southern Africa

Author(s): García de Castro Barragán, J. M., Shipingana, D., de la Rosa, J. M., Brewer, B., Marker, L. L., Parry, H., and Knicker, H.:
Published in: Abstract Book EGU General Assembly 2023, Austria, 23-28 Apr 2023, 2023, Page(s) Abstract EGU23-285
Publisher: EGU
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-285

Impact of Controlled Shrub Harvest in Southern Africa`s Savannahs on the Content and Quality of their Natural Soil Organic Matter

Author(s): José M. García de Castro Barragán, Matti T. Nghikembua, David Shipingana, José M. de la Rosa, Bruce Brewer, Laurie L. Marker, Huw Parry, Heike Knicker
Published in: 21st International Conference of the IHSS Proceedings, 2023
Publisher: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023EGUGA..25..285M/abstract 

Peer reviewed articles (1)

Benchmarking the torrefaction process and product performance: Insights from the SteamBioAfrica project in Namibia

Author(s): Charles Rashama, Dave Wakefield, Andrew Pearson, Colin Lindeque, Bruce Bewer, Huw Parry, Dave Lello, Ben Mapani
Published in: Next Research, Issue 2, 2025, Page(s) 100256, ISSN 3050-4759
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.nexres.2025.100256