Limburger green for a green economy

MIP Industrial partner Project leader

Synopsis

This study focuses on the potential and the optimization of woody biomass for renewable energy. First and foremost it is essential to make an inventory of possible woody biomass sources. This study also investigates the economic feasibility of retrieving crop residues from green areas. Finally, special attention is paid to the business model and regulatory bottlenecks.

Objectives

The project intends to extend the feasibility of energy recovery of woody biomass by fully or partially eliminating the barriers that currently hamper the market. This project will fulfil these goals by focusing on key elements in this highly evolving but still relatively young market, namely:

  • Promote the use of biomass for bio energy by providing insight into the opportunities with respect to logistics, manufacturing as well as the processing of biomass. Furthermore the purpose of this project is to explore the possibility if biomass, that has not yet been (fully) used in a green economy, can be used once enough knowledge and resources are provided.
  • To strive towards a sustainable and reasonably transparent biomass business by creating an understanding in the underlying pricing (i.e. aside from the price evolutions in fossil fuels and supportive policies focus on the production costs) and by working on the development of the statistics regarding the use and potential of woody biomass for energy.
  • Create opportunities to identify realistic and feasible legal and technical frameworks.
  • Calculate the costs and benefits for People, Planet and Profit to create broader support from both an ecological as well as an economic perspective.
  • Give appropriate attention to the dissemination and communication of the results of the project in order to provide different stakeholders with a better understanding of the biomass supply chain and the potentials for cooperation.


The project focuses mainly on the energy recovery of biomass. In doing so it will also give sufficient attention to other processing methods (material use, composting, ...)  in order to find a complete solution for biomass streams. The goal is thus not to focus on energy recovery of recycling materials but to find an optimal interpretation of energy recovery as well as material recycling.


Start

1/10/2010

Duration

24 months

Budget

EUR 351373

Partners

Industrial partners

M.I.G. bvba

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Project leader

Rob Wouters (M.I.G. bvba)