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BEIC visits FAU in Nuremberg

On the 30th of April Jörgen Held visited prof. Jürgen Karl, Chair of Energy Process Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU).


From left Prof. Jürgen Karl and Dr. Jörgen Held during the lab tour.

Prof. Jürgen Karl is the inventor of the Heatpipe Reformer and the founder of Agnion Energy Inc. (later acquired by Entrade).

Both catalytic and biological methanation as well as the latest development of the Heatpipe Reformer technology were highlighted during the lab tour.

The numerous experimental lab and pilot scale plants are further described here.

BEIC visits École des Mines d’Albi

On the 1st of May Jörgen Held visited Prof. Ange Nzihou, director of RAPSODEE research centre at Mines Albi. Prof. Nzihou is an authority in waste valorization, President of the WasteEng conference cycle and the initator and chief editor of the Waste and Biomass Valorization Journal.

Prof. Ange NzihouProf. Ange Nzihou during the lab tour. The activities are centered around waste, co-products and residues as resources. The research group headed by prof. Nzihou are moving into the area of bioSNG production and the need for cheap and simple catalysts. Prof. Nzihou gave a key-note lecture on syngas cleaning at REGATEC 2018 in Toulouse.

Dr. Javier EscuderoDr. Javier Escudero, part of the research group, explains the underlying principle of fixed bed gasification. Dr. Escudero is promoting gasification as the future of organic waste recovery. His target materials are forest residues, household waste and non-recyclable plastic materials, etc. “Gasification is used particularly for dry and solid waste. It is complementary to the biological methanation process, which is used more for wet waste.

During the visit Jörgen Held gave a lecture on Biomethane production through thermochemical conversion of biomass and waste

COASTAL Biogas granted funding

The COASTAL Biogas project with partners from Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden has been granted funding through the South Baltic Sea Programme.

https://southbaltic.eu/-/new-projects-have-been-selected-for-funding#

“The project objective is to provide biogas based solutions to coastal regions to tackle eutrophication, contribute to the transition to a circular bio-economy and improve prosperity.” 

BEIC is the Swedish partner and the WP-leader for the communication and dissemination activities.

Swedish Energy Agency grants BEIC funding

On the 29th of March the Swedish Energy Agency granted BEIC funding to participate in the application for a Horizon 2020 project, Cost-effective efficiency and flexibility through Advanced Process Control for biomass-driven CHP plants.

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg is the coordinator and BEIC is one of 14 other partners from 6 countries participating in the application.

BEIC engaged by Gothenburg Energy

BEIC has been engaged by Gothenburg Energy to make a public version of the BioProGReSs final report.

The BioProGReSs project is related to advanced syngas cleaning based on chemical looping reforming. The concept has been implemented and demonstrated at both the Chalmers gasifier and at GoBiGas I in Gothenburg, Sweden. In addition a novel online tar measurment technique (CON-TAR) developed at TU Berlin has been implemented and demonstrated.

Visit at Fraunhofer UMSICHT

On the 26th of January Jörgen Held visited Fraunhofer UMSICHT in Oberhausen, Germany to discuss possible future collaboration.

Dr. Joachim Krassowski, Dr. Ute Merrettig-Bruns and Dipl.-Ing. Oliver Jochum gave an insight into the biogas development at Fraunhofer UMSICHT including biological methanation. The meeting ended with a tour in the Power-to-gas laboratory.

Visit at UMSICHT
From left: Jörgen Held, Baltic Energy Innovation Centre, Dipl.-Ing Oliver Jochum and Dr. Joachim Krassowski, Fraunhofer UMSICHT.

BEIC at the EBA conference in Antwerp, Belgium

Jörgen Held was invited to chair the gasification session at the European Biogas Association’s biennial conference, 24-25 January in Antwerp, Belgium.

Some of the conference highlights include the strong message from major natural gas actors in France that renewable methane is at the top of the agenda. At 2030 the target is to have 30% renewable methane in the gas grid and 100% by 2050. This will be achieved by injection of renewable methane produced through anaerobic digestion, gasification of woody biomass and Power-to-gas.

Prof. Reinhard Rauch presented an overview of biomass gasification development in Europe. There is approx. 500 small scale gasifiers for CHP production installed in Germany and approx. 1,000 in Europe.

Prof. Henrik Thunman presented results of the GoBiGas project where woody chips are converted to biomethane with a conversion efficiency of 65%. The capacity is 20 MW biomethane.

Dr. Olivier Guerrini presented the biomethane potential in Europe and ongoing bioSNG development including the GAYA development platform.

Dr. Christiaan van der Meijeden presented the bioSNG development at ECN (MILENA, OLGA and ESME) which will be demonstrated within the AMBIGO project in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. Based on the results in lab and pilot scale tests the target is a 70% conversion efficiency from wood chips to bioSNG.

The conference attracted approx. 200 participants and was opened by Mr. Ludwig Caluwé from the province of Antwerp.

Gasunie recieved the Greening Gas Award and the award for the best poster went to the Paul Scherrer Institute.

BEIC invited to chair the gasification session at the EBA conference

Dr. Jörgen Held has been invited by the European Biogas Association to chair the gasification session on the 25th of January at the EBA conference in Antwerp.

The session, “Gasification from R&D to commercialisation” includes presentations by Dr. Olivier Guerrini, ENGIE, Prof. Reinhard Rauch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Prof. Henrik Thunman, Chalmers University of Technology and Dr. Christiaan van der Meijden, representing Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands.

For more details on the conference http://biogasconference.eu.

 

BEIC has evaluated a new method for tightness control of gas pipes with a volume up to 24 m3

BEIC has on behalf of E.ON Gas Sweden AB evaluated a new metod for tightness control of gas pipes with a volume up to 24 m3.

The new method is proposed by AB Gas & Värmeteknik and based on simultaneous measurements of the test object and a reference vessel with precision manometers.

The full report “Utvärdering av ny metod för tryckprovning av volym upp till 24 m3” (in Swedish) is available under publications.

BEIC WP-leader in COASTAL Biogas

Baltic Energy Innovation Centre (BEIC) is a full partner and a WP-leader within the COASTAL Biogas proposal submitted on the 19th of December to the South Baltic Sea Programme.

COASTAL stands for Cluster On Anaerobic Digestion, Environmental Services and NuTrients RemovAL, and is focused on anaerobic digestion of cast seaweed in combination with digestate utilization as bio-fertilizer.

The project consortium consists of 20 partners out of which 6 are full project partners and WP-leaders;
FNR (DE) – lead partner
Gdansk University of Technology (PL)
Baltic Energy Innovation Centre (SE)
Rostock University (DE)
Roskilde University (DK)
Lithuanian Energy Institute (LT)

The proposed budget is close to 1.6 MEUR and covers lab scale and pilot testing, best practice and lessons learned, feasibility studies in close collaboration with partners able to implement the investigated technology and massive dissemination activities including 5 conferences and study tours.

Expected project start is 1 July 2018 and project end 30 June 2021.