24 News & Press Releases found
Bio4Energy News
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New Method for Conditioning Biomass from Conifers Makes for Cost-efficient Ethanol Production
Bio4Energy researchers together with industrial partners have invented a cost-efficient method designed to facilitate the production of fermentation products such as ethanol from cellulose from wood or woody residue from spruce and pine. The ...
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Problem-solving Studies on Biomass Gasification, Waste Water Treatment Enabled by VR Grants
Bio4Energy researchers have won funds for carrying out scientific studies on reducing soot formation in biomass gasification for making biofuels, as well as two projects on water purification in developing countries. The prestigious ...
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Discovery of Mechanism behind Organisation of Plant Cell Wall Raises Hopes for Biorefinery Development
Plant biologists have long tried to come up with a method for making trees produce large amounts of easily extractable biomass for making renewable products such as biofuels and "green" chemicals. Indeed, international conferences such as ...
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This Is Bio4Energy
Bio4Energy wants to thank its members, stakeholders and funders for its five first years of building a research environment that links up key academic and business organisations actively trying to promote biorefinery—the invention and ...
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Pyrolysis Oil from Biomass Could Be Early Alternative to Fossil Oil in Transition to Society Fuelled by Renewables
Pyrolysis of biomass—thermochemical decomposition of wood or organic waste at elevated temperatures and with minimal presence of oxygen—could be an "interesting" option in a transition to replacing today`s fossil oil with renewable ...
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Bio4Energy Researchers: Pulping Side Stream May Be Harnessed for High Value-added Chemicals
Researchers in Bio4Energy have published a review article designed to guide biorefinery industry looking to make value-added products from side streams of pulp and paper production such as crude tall oil from trees. This is an area that is ...
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Health & Environmental Effects of Biomass Burning Focus of Congress in Sweden
An important aspect of providing methods and tools for conducting efficient and sustainable biorefinery—such as Bio4Energy does—is to keep the environmental and health impacts of biomass-based technologies in check. One such example is ...
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Bio4Energy Researchers: Pulping Side Stream May Be Harnessed for High Value-added Chemicals
Researchers in Bio4Energy have published a review article designed to guide biorefinery industry looking to make value-added products from side streams of pulp and paper production such as crude tall oil from trees. This is an area that is ...
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Health & Environmental Effects of Biomass Burning Focus of Congress in Sweden
An important aspect of providing methods and tools for conducting efficient and sustainable biorefinery—such as Bio4Energy does—is to keep the environmental and health impacts of biomass-based technologies in check. One such example is ...
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Bio4Energy Students Analyse Pilot Facilities in Sharpened Biorefinery Pilot Research Course
The contents of the key generic course in the Bio4Energy Graduate School, Biorefinery Pilot Research (BPR), have been made considerably sharper in terms of training students in considering each biorefinery pilot or demonstration facility in the ...
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This Spring in Bio4Energy
Bio4Energy is lucky to have fantastic researchers. Having barely concluded the Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting—which international conference this year had a focus on biorefinery processes—and received the thumbs up from several ...
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Biofuel from Algae, Six Decades of Photosynthesis Research at UREM 2015 Conference, Day 3
Bioethanol may be successfully produced from genetically engineered algae, carbon dioxide and sunlight, Kerstin Baier of Algenol Biofuel Germany told the Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting on its third and final day 27 March. In fact, 4,000 photo ...
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Biochemical, Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass in Focus at UREM 2015, Day Two
Today (Mar 26, 2015) the Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting learned that while biomass gasification for the purpose of making fuels and chemicals would be used to produce biofuel in the Nordic countries, and preferably dimethyl ...
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UREM 2015 Renewable Energy Conference Kicked off March 25 in Sweden
The Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting at Umeå, Sweden, kicked off its first conference day 25 March. Some highlights of the morning session were a talk by Thomas B. Johansson of the International Institute for Industrial ...
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Latest Research on Biomass for Fuels, Chemicals & Materials Discussed at Conference in Sweden
What is needed for our societies to transition to a "green" economy? Some might say "renewable energy", "more research and innovation" or "targeted political incentives". At the Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting (UREM) 2015, 25-27 March, ...
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Biorefinery Development à la Bio4Energy Focus of Umeå Renewable Energy Conference
The Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting—which is in fact an annual conference, held in northern Sweden and traditionally attended mostly by researchers and industry representatives from Europe and the Americas—this year will give an ...
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Bio4Energy Researchers Tackle Soot Agglomeration in Entrained-flow Gasification of Biomass
Researchers in Bio4Energy may be close to delivering one of the final `missing link` pieces of scientific knowledge on gasification of biomass from woody residue at high temperatures. Doing so would pave the way for industry ...
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Takeover Means Bio4Energy Partner ETC Becomes SP Energy Technology Centre
The SP Swedish Technical Research Institute of Sweden is taking over the Bio4Energy partner Energy Technology Centre at Piteå, an 18-employee strong research foundation specialised in the thermal conversion of biomass ...
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Excellent Research by Bio4Energy Students: Flexible Carbon Foams, Polymers from Pulping by-product
One of Bio4Energy’s greatest assets is its students. This month, no less than five of them are either defending their PhD thesis or giving their licentiate lecture or mid-term PhD seminar. In this case, five seminars make for five lines of ...
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Excellent Research by Bio4Energy Students: Flexible Carbon Foams, Polymers from Pulping by-product
One of Bio4Energy’s greatest assets is its students. This month, no less than five of them are either defending their PhD thesis or giving their licentiate lecture or mid-term PhD seminar. In this case, five seminars make for five lines of ...