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The 10th World Congress of Chemical Engineering
From October 1st to October 5th 2017, the “10th World Congress of Chemical Engineering” was held in Barcelona, Spain. More than 3000 delegates presenting and listening to more than 1500 oral communications led to the event that managed to represent the chemical engineering and its thriving ideas and innovation as a whole. Due to the…
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WP3_Follow up on activities
Under the WP3 (ABE fermentation and solvent recovery), since the last status update, TU Wien has conducted extensive research regarding different membrane materials as well as potential membrane module designs for the separation of ABE from fermentation broth. The focus was put on commercially available PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) and newly developed POMS (polyoxymethylsiloxan) membranes by…
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WP6_Follow up on activities
Under the WP6, Industrial Scale-up, TU Wien is supporting WP 6 with simulation tasks for the overall process in Aspen Plus. Up to now, the focus was put mainly on potential in-situ recovery methods. The results generated in other work packages were used to develop simulation models for adsorption, stripping, pervaporation, distillation as well…
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WP1 _ Follow up on activities
Under the WP1, (Selection of renewable feedstock for ABE fermentation), the following tasks have been performed: Between two and three pretreatment methods have been proposed by ITACyl for each of the four agro-food wastes. These methods allow equilibrium between maximal sugar release and minimal generation of fermentation inhibitors in the hydrolysates. Common fermentation inhibitors…
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WP4_Follow up of activities
In the WP4 (Catalytic conversion of ethanol to butanol), bio-ethanol can be catalytically converted into butanol through alcohol dimerization called Guerbet reaction. This reaction is promoted by catalysts with a suitable combination of both acid and basic sites. Furthermore, the addition of an active metal can favour the initial dehydrogenation of the alcohol to…
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Sustainable First and Second Generation Bioethanol for Europe
Last September, Waste2Fuels had the pleasure to participate in the Sustainable First and Second Generation Bioethanol for Europe event. In the context of the discussion on REDII, the conference provided an overview of the pros and cons related to the first and the second generation of bioethanol, focusing on the GHG emission reduction and decarbonisation…
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Agri-Food Waste Day Conference
On the 17 October, Waste2Fuels participated in the Agri-food waste day conference, co-hosted by NoAW and Agrocycle, both projects funded under H2020, the European Research and Innovation scheme. The aim of the conference was to bring together different stakeholders and share opinions about circular economy challenges and activities in the agri-food sector. During the event latest…
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Other events attended
The Waste2Fuels project has been also presented at: 13th International Symposium on the Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms, October 16-20, 2016, Wuhan, China. International Conference on Metabolic Science (ICMS-2016). The conference provided a platform for world’s leading scientists, young scholars, graduates and entrepreneurs to network, exchanging update progress for solutions to address common challenges. In this…
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Insights from the biofuel world
Last summer the SFT (Sustainable Transport Forum) approved the Final Report elaborated by the Sub-Group on Advanced Biofuels, which consists of 32 industry experts representing all advanced biofuels value chains and transport sectors, such as aviation and maritime. The mandate of the Sub-Group was to develop strategies facilitating the deployment and use of advanced biofuels…
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Waste2Fuels at CASA-SCAR National Meeting
The Deputy Director of Research of ITACyL, Pablo Gómez Conejo, has participated in the CASA-SCAR NATIONAL MEETING at the Spanish National Institute of Agricultural and Food Research (INIA), which was held in Madrid (Spain) during the 10-11th May 2017. The topic of this meeting was: The research agenda on Agriculture and Bioeconomy within the European…