Objective
Cost-efficient, environmental-friendly and socially sustainable biomass supply chains are urgently needed to achieve the 2020 targets of the Strategic Energy Technologies-Plan of the European Union, which are likely to be impeded by the potential scarcity of lignocellulosic biomass from agriculture. Innovative techniques for crop management, biomass harvesting and pre-treatment, storage and transport offer a prime avenue to increase biomass supply while keeping costs down and minimizing adverse environmental impacts.
The LogistEC project aims at developing new or improved technologies for all steps of the logistics chains, and at assessing their sustainability at supply-area level for small to large-scale bio-based projects. It encompasses all types of lignocellulosic crops: annual and multi-annual crops, perennial grasses, and short-rotation coppice.
Through specific meta-analyses, laboratory tests, field trials, ecosystem modelling and mechanical engineering, the project will deliver recommendations for optimal technologies as well as new equipments and systems. A framework will be developed to integrate chain components and assess their sustainability in terms of environmental, economic and social impacts. It will enable a multi-criteria optimization of the supply chains, making the most of the progresses achieved in the new logistics technologies. The optimization system will be developed and tested in a set of bio-energy and bio-materials case-studies across Europe. Improved logistics will be demonstrated at pilot and industrial scales in 2 regions (Eastern France and Southern Spain) for existing bio-energy and bio-materials value chains. All technology developments will be carried out with industrial partners, to speed up their transfer to market. Project results will be disseminated to the relevant stakeholder groups via scientific and technical conferences, targeted events in connection with the demonstration sites, the project web site and newsletters.
Fields of science
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesforestrysilviculturecoppicing
- engineering and technologymechanical engineering
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterials
- agricultural sciencesagricultural biotechnologybiomass
Call for proposal
FP7-KBBE-2012-6-singlestage
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Coordinator
75007 Paris Cedex 07
France
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Participants (23)
28040 Madrid
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2800 Kongens Lyngby
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1755 LE Petten
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AL5 2JQ Herts
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7034 Trondheim
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56127 Pisa
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77420 Champs Sur Marne
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31621 Sarriguren
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31192 Navarra
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1050 Bruxelles
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DN22 8SB Retford
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DN22 8SB Retford
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40062 Molinella
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9574 Baelum
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2031 EJ Haarlem
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6530 Averoy
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50130 Mikkeli
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21110 Aiserey
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31400 Sanguesa Navarra
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17005 Girona
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75015 Paris
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03-301 Warsaw
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12030 Cavallermaggiore
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