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Butanol production from agrofood wastes is possible
Biobutanol can be obtained by sugar fermentation. One of the main objectives of Waste2Fuels is the development of suitable pretreatments for lignocellulosic biomass, in order to release simple sugars from cellulose and hemicellulose, thus obtaining fermentable streams for biobutanol production. Apple pomace, a waste from juice and cider industries, has been successfully employed for biobutanol…
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Newsletter #2
Dear Waste2Fuels reader, Here we are again, giving you our latest news. Click on the following link to enjoy our second Newsletter Enjoy it!
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Highlight of the month
On January 17th the European Parliament voted on the RED II report and endorsed a set of proposals that establish new goals for renewable energy, energy efficiency and renewable transportation fuels. In a vote on revising the Renewable Energy Directive, MEPs agreed a 12% transport target for renewable energy by 2030. The contribution of…
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The 5th International Scientific Conference on Pervaporation, Vapour Pervaporation and Membrane Distillation.
The “5th International Scientific Conference on Pervaporation, Vapour Pervaporation and Membrane Distillation” has been held in June 2017 in Torun, Poland. This event has been combined with the “2nd Workshop on ABE Fermentation and Recovery” which was very fruitful as these membrane processes are promising techniques for a cost- and energy-efficient recovery of solvents…
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The 2nd Workshop on ABE Fermentation and Recovery
The “2nd Workshop on ABE Fermentation and Recovery” followed an event in July 2015 in Vienna but basically is the continuation of work initially started by Nasib Qureshi, Ian Maddox and Anton Friedl back in 1989 in New Zealand. Around 15 researchers attended this workshop and discussed ongoing projects, potential developments, implementation barriers and…
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The 9th International Conference on Environmental Engineering and Management
he 9th International Conference on Environmental Engineering and Management has been held from 6th to 9th of September 2017 in Bologna, Italy. The main topics focused on environmental sustainability and ways towards a circular economy. At the conference, a wide range of fields where those aspects are of increased importance was represented. The practical research…
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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…