Residues from agriculture and forestry are abundant in the EU. In addition to cereal straw, innovative harvesting solutions can enable the collection of corn cob and what chaff with traditional combine harvesters, without reducing the performance of grain harvesting.
Growing annual lignocellulosic crops in rotation with cereals can be an effective way to diversify and secure biomass supply. The grain yields of cereal crops are not affected by the rotation with lignocellulosic crops, while biomass yield increases significantly, and soil health can be improved.
By combining different biomass streams, it could be possible to meet the EU demand for advanced biofuels by 2030 with domestic supply, generate 25,000-45,000 jobs.
The use of liquid energy carriers such as fast pyrolysis bio-oil as feedstock for gasification can widen the feedstock base for advanced biofuels and enables synergies and integrations with fossil routes in refineries. The project also achieved the successful production of Fischer-Tropsch fuels from sugarcane bagasse with continuous operation.
Soil health and foodAddressing target audiences and expressing needs
- To raise awareness and possibly influence policy
- Collaboration
- Other type of Investment
We are open to collaborations with research organizations to carry out further research, as well as industrial partners for scaling up lignocellulosic biomass value chains for advanced biofuels and bio-based products. Many of the findings are also relevant for future policy making, related to the large scale deployment of biomass value chains and how this can be achieved in a sustainable way, without reducing food production and improving soil health.
- EU and Member State Policy-makers
- Research and Technology Organisations
- Private Investors
R&D, Technology and Innovation aspects
the project is complete is now complete and many of the results are ready for further demonstration at higher scale.
