Bioenergy in Copenhagen, Aug. 10-12
Birmingham: The European Bioenergy Research Institute was established one year ago at Aston University. The University will push this action with about 25 M£ and it aims to be a platform for industry and academia in Britain for integrated “green” energy approaches. The success so far is huge, as we got about 30 companies interested to join the platform or collaborate with us in various ways. For example the companies Severn Trent, Johnson Matthey and Utilicom are part of those.
EBRI worked out a scenario under the name Birmingham 2026 to show how the city can reduce the CO2 emissions by 60% until 2026. In fact the intention is to build a thermal belt around the city, based on pyrolysis/gasification plants offering the opportunity to deliver heat and power or even up to 60t/d of hydrogen which could be used for transportation or low carbon living. The total investment for this venture is in a range of 170 M£ and is intended to be financed by private organizations and companies. A first site has been selected by the council and will deal with the relocation of the Birmingham wholesale market in which process the energy supply shall be completely organized via waste biomass by means of anaerobic digestion, pyrolisis, gasification and heat/cooling and power.
ERBACH: In the same way; German site is developed in Hainhaus Odenwald, Germany. It is 75 ha area, which will additionally be equipped with an algae test centre, using the effluents of the above described processes for optimized growth conditions. The total investment here will be about 30 M£. In addition to the commercial activity, an Aston satellite is planned for education and training in cooperation with the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Odenwald Academy. This educational centre will train and educate the staff and engineers necessary for our but also similar sites in industry related to bioenergy.
International: The site in Germany will house an EBRI GmbH; complementary to the EBRI ltd in UK. At that stage we are negotiating for opportunities to create an EBRI KFT in Hungary and another Ltd in India, in the frame of our collaboration with IIT Delhi.
Aston University
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry – CEAC
Birmingham B4 7ET
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hornung
Chair in Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Head of the European Bioenergy Research Institute – EBRI
0044 121 204 3391
www.aston.ac.uk
www.ebri.org.uk
Schedule of Bioenergy workshop
Date : 12.8
Time : between 12 – 16 (in fact it could start after the lunch: 13.00, and continue if needed to 17.00)
Place : Building 421, Peter Lauritz Jensen Auditorium
The agenda for the workshop is being prepared by Outi Krause and colleagues, and it will be send to the partners as soon as possible. It is proposed that each partner (Universities, research institutes and companies) with bioenergy activity would have 5 min presentation about their activities (research, education, innovation activity, building of pilot, demonstration or production facilities). Time for the discussion of important aspects will be reserved also in the SEEIT bioenergy plan.
For all the partners are kindly asked to send us ( and ) confirmation about the attendance and presentation in the bioenergy meeting on Wednesday. This email is send to all the names in Nicolaj’s mailing list to ensure that all the bioenergy people get the message.
In addition, there is reserved for those who can come earlier a place to have a short meeting on Monday morning (9.00 - ~ 10:45) to discuss in a more informal way our bioenergy plan and activities of SEEIT bioenergy community.
Time and place: 10.8 9? 12 Building 421, room 87, Hans Niels Andersen Room. Mr./Ms. Ossi would appreciate to get a confirmation about the attendance in this meeting. Send email directly to .
Ossi Turunen, PhD, Docent
Senior Lecturer
Helsinki University of Technology
Department of Biotechnology and Chemical Technology
P.O. Box 6100 (Kemistintie 1)
02015 TKK
Finland
Tel: +358 9 451 2551
Fax: +358 9 462 373
Mob: +358 50 539 6499
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