Objective
The fundamental goal of the project is to increase the output of biogas as a renewable energy source through anaerobic digestion of homogenised biomass in an optimised anaerobic digestion system. This improvement of biological digestion would be achieved b y the introduction of a biomass pre-treatment process. The process based on the disruption of organic materials and cell structures of the biomass to increase the concentration of solved nutrients as feed for the micro-organisms involved in the anaerobic digestion process. The fundamental aim of BIOWELL is to demonstrate the most efficient pre-treatment process for maximal energy recovery from biomass.
The BIOWELL project consortium consists of five SME proposers that have defined a common need for external RTD support (by the three RTD providers) in order to develop a new pre-treatment technology system to be utilized at biogas plants. The results of the project shall help to strengthen the competitiveness of the partners and to enter new growing markets with new products and services, e.g. remote condition monitoring and process optimisation services (C-L), manufacturing of BIOWELL system (GHM), adaptation of homogenizer technology to biomass or sludge disruption (DMS). Europe should play a key and dominant role in the exploitation of renewable energy sources for the benefits of mankind and nature.
A market survey carried out on energy recovery from biomass and anaerobic digestion industry has shown that there is a substantial need for compact and cost efficient biological digestion system suitable for optimal exploitation of biomass as sustainable source of energy. A target of about 12% of EU's total energy consumption from renewable sources by 2010 has been set by the Union. This would lead to min. 5.000 additional biogas-plants in the next few years.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
- engineering and technology environmental biotechnology bioremediation bioreactors
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering control systems
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels renewable energy
- agricultural sciences agricultural biotechnology biomass
- natural sciences physical sciences acoustics ultrasound
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2004-SME-COOP
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Coordinator
CLAUSTHAL-ZELLERFELD
Germany
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