BIOmethane as SUstainable and Renewable Fuel

Project Information

BIOSURF

Grant agreement ID: 646533

DOI 10.3030/646533

Project closed

EC signature date 9 December 2014

Start date 1 January 2015

End date 31 December 2017

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy

Total cost € 1 872 912,13

EU contribution € 1 872 912,13

Coordinated by

ISTITUTO DI STUDI PER L'INTEGRAZIONE DEI SISTEMI (I.S.I.S) - SOCIETA'COOPERATIVA
Italy

Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (8)

Roll-up
Project postcard
Project website
Six e-newsletters and three press releases
Proposal for the establishment of national and European biomethane certificate trading platforms
Final Booklet
Market survey on determining the market accepted threshold for the value of tradable biomethane certificates
Project leaflet

Documents, reports (28)

Report on impact analysis
Final Report on Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication
Interim Report on Networking & Cooperation
Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication Plan
Technical-administrative proposal to EC for declaring natural gas network as a single, closed mass-balancing system with respect to biomethane cross-border transactions
Inventory of rules and conditions for the natural gas/biomethane market in 3 regions (IT, AU, FR)
Recommendations for the adaptation of the GHG calculation methodology for biomethane systems included in Annex V of the EU RED
Comprehensive methodology on calculating entitlement to CO2 certificates by biomethane producers
Benchmark and gap analysis of C&I
Assessment of GHG reduction potentials due to the use of animal excrements and organic waste streams as biogas substrates and the replacement of industrial chemical fertilisers by digestate
Selected country analysis of sustainable biomethane
Guidelines for creating the European Biomethane Guarantees of Origin
Report on the practical experiences with the application of the European biomethane standards
Final Report on Networking & Cooperation
Report on data availability of selected raw material categories
Project Evaluation Plan
Report on current and future sustainable biomass supply for biomethane production
Methodology for the calculation and certification of GHG emission caused by the production of biomethane (in the whole Life Cycle)
Networking & Cooperation Plan
Identification and analysis of the focus areas
Report on regional bilateral/trilateral agreements
Recommendations for EU and national policy makers
Inventory and analysis of biomethane related EU and national political acts, regulations and support schemes
Guidelines for biomethane evaluation
Technical-economic analysis for determining the feasibility threshold for tradable biomethane certificates

Technical-economic analysis for determining the feasibility threshold for tradable biomethane certificates

Cross-sectoral sustainability C&I
Comprehensive guidelines for establishing national biomethane registries
Description of the most prominent drivers of emissions in LCA for biomethane production

Publications

Other (5)

European Biomethane Conference 2016: green light for cross-border trade

Author(s): Dena, AGCS
Published in: Dena website, Issue 20.06.2016, 2016
Publisher: Dena

Regno Unito, forte incremento nella produzione di biogas

Author(s): Lorenzo Maggioni (CIB)
Published in: Terra e Vita, Issue 14, 2016, Page(s) 67-69
Publisher: New Business Media srl

Biometano verso lo sblocco

Author(s): Lorenzo Maggioni (CIB)
Published in: Terra e Vita, Issue 13/2015, 2015, Page(s) 18-19
Publisher: New Business Media srl

REA Bi-Monthly Biogas Report

Author(s): Kiara Zennaro, David Collins (REA)
Published in: REA Bi-Monthly Biogas Report, Issue Every 2 months, 2015, Page(s) Various
Publisher: REA

Lettre info du Club Biogaz

Author(s): ATEE Club Biogaz
Published in: Lettre info du Club Biogaz, Issue March and September 2016, 2016, Page(s) 6
Publisher: ATEE Club Biogaz

Peer reviewed articles (3)

Exploitation of algal-bacterial associations in a two-stage biohydrogen and biogas generation process

Author(s): Roland Wirth, Gergely Lakatos, Gergely Maróti, Zoltán Bagi, János Minárovics, Katalin Nagy, Éva Kondorosi, Gábor Rákhely, Kornél L Kovács
Published in: Biotechnology for Biofuels, Issue 8/1, 2015, ISSN 1754-6834
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-015-0243-x

Conversion of H2 and CO2 to CH4 and acetate in fed-batch biogas reactors by mixed biogas community: a novel route for the power-to-gas concept

Author(s): Márk Szuhaj, Norbert Ács, Roland Tengölics, Attila Bodor, Gábor Rákhely, Kornél L. Kovács, Zoltán Bagi
Published in: Biotechnology for Biofuels, Issue 9/1, 2016, ISSN 1754-6834
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-016-0515-0

Metagenome changes in the mesophilic biogas-producing community during fermentation of the green alga Scenedesmus obliquus

Author(s): Roland Wirth, Gergely Lakatos, Tamás Böjti, Gergely Maróti, Zoltán Bagi, Mihály Kis, Attila Kovács, Norbert Ács, Gábor Rákhely, Kornél L. Kovács
Published in: Journal of Biotechnology, Issue 215, 2015, Page(s) 52-61, ISSN 0168-1656
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2015.06.396

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Biomethane in Europe, Development and Status Quo

Author(s): Frank Hofmann, Ernest Kovács, Clemens Findeisen
Published in: Biogas Journal, Issue Maz_2016/Semestral, 2016, Page(s) 36-39, ISSN 1619-8913
Publisher: German Biogas Association