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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

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.