We have organised a ‘Bioenergy Networks and Biomass Potentials’ conference to showcase the achievements of the BioenNW project and the businesses and projects we have supported. It will be taking place in Brussels on Thursday 24th September.

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An innovative, mobile energy-from-waste technology demonstrator will be coming to Saarland this month on the opening leg of a tour of North West Europe. On the 24^th July IZES gGmbH and our local partner Evontec GmbH will be welcoming Ms. Astrid Klug from the Saarland Ministry of Energy to mark the arrival of the ...

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Two Pyrofab demonstration prototypes are set to tour four sites in North West Europe, hosted by BioenNW partners before returning to the UK. Each system consists of two parts, a conversion technology containing a Pyroformer™ (developed by researchers at the European Bioenergy Research Institute at Aston University) which uses intermediate pyrolysis to convert waste materials ...

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There is a general consensus in Europe that a biobased sector development is strongly related to the sustainability challenge. The environmental sustainability of biomass feedstock has a huge impact on the whole value chain from land through to bio-products. At the same time, European and global biomass resources represent the raw material for a wide ...

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Using a GIS (Geographic Information System) based model approach developed by BioenNW partner KIT-ITAS (using Python-code to drive the ArcGIS-software), further modules to assess the potential of surplus grass are presented in this blog post. By applying the same approach as described by Martina Haase (March 2014 BioenNW blog post) and Ahssem Almehasneh (October 2014 ...

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Science and innovation are high priority areas for Europe. Both are vital to European relations and cross-country working. In Germany in particular, these areas are of huge importance and priority. Within the recently established funding framework programme Horizon 2020, these priority areas are brought together to achieve sustainable economic growth whilst strengthening a competitive ...

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This spring, BioenNW Lead Partner the European Bioenergy Research Institute (EBRI) at Aston University is launching a suite of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses to enable individuals from throughout Europe to increase their personal knowledge, skills and employability in key areas relating to the bioenergy sector.

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Dytecna Environmental was delighted to recently host partners from the EU funded INTERREG IVB BioenNW project to present the progress on the innovative bioenergy demonstrator systems it is constructing for use across North West Europe later this year. The initial ‘Pyrofab’ control and monitoring laboratory – housed in an ISO shipping container – is now ...

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A delegation of entrepreneurs form Blount County in Tennessee, USA visited IZES gGmbH during their business tour to Germany. The trip was organised by the Saarland Business Development Agency (Saar.is). The main objectives of this agency is the constant pursuit of new trading and research partners for the Saarland region of Germany and to match ...

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Earlier this month, BioenNW lead partner EBRI organised and hosted an event on behalf of Climate-KIC. The event, ‘Developing the bioeconomy throughout Europe’, had a truly European dimension with participants from Hungary, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Denmark and the UK all in attendance. It took place at EBRI at Aston University in Birmingham on 2^nd...

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