Our Work: Tasks
The work of IEA Bioenergy is structured in a number of Tasks, which have well
defined objectives, budgets, and time frames. The collaboration which earlier
was focused on Research, Development and Demonstration is now increasingly also
emphasising Deployment on a large-scale and worldwide. Each participating
country pays a modest financial contribution toward administrative
requirements, shares the costs of managing the Tasks and provides in-kind
contributions to fund participation of national personnel in the Tasks.
The scope of the work undertaken within IEA Bioenergy is shown below.
IEA Bioenergy Tasks:
Each Task is led by one of the participating
countries (Operating Agent) with technical effort co-ordinated by a Task
Leader. The work is directed by the Executive Committee. For the period
2010-2012, there are 12 Tasks. Tasks 30 and 31, which were active in the
previous triennium are replaced by a new Task:
Task 43: Biomass Feedstocks for Energy Markets.
All of the Tasks have a common duration of three years.
The ongoing Tasks and the recently discontinued
Tasks are as follows:
Task
29
:
Socio-Economic Drivers in Implementing Bioenergy Projects
Task
32
:
Biomass Combustion and Co-firing
Task
33
:
Thermal Gasification of Biomass
Task
34
:
Pyrolysis of Biomass
Task
36
:
Integrating Energy Recovery into Solid Waste Management
Task
37
:
Energy from Biogas
Task
38
:
Greenhouse Gas Balances of Biomass and Bioenergy Systems
Task
39
:
Commercialising Liquid Biofuels from Biomass
Task
40
:
Sustainable International Bioenergy Trade - Securing Supply and Demand
Task
41
:
Project 3 - Joint project with the Advanced Motor Fuels Implementing Agreement
Task
42
:
Biorefineries: Co-production of Fuels, Chemicals, Power and Materials from Biomass
Task
43
:
Biomass Feedstocks for Energy Markets
The completed tasks are:
Task
16
:
Tech. Assessment of Cellulosic Materials to Ethanol in Sweden
Task
18
:
Conventional Forestry Systems for Bioenergy
Task
23
:
Energy from Thermal Conversion of MSW and RDF
Task
28
:
Solid Biomass Fuels Standardisation and Classification
Task
30
:
Short Rotation Crops for Bioenergy Systems
Task
31
:
Biomass Production for Energy from Sustainable Forestry
Task
35
:
Techno-economic Assessments for Bioenergy Applications
How to find out more
IEA Bioenergy is keen to promote its work
programmes within participating countries and to encourage increasing
involvement of industrial partners. It also wishes to encourage further
interest in its work from non-participating countries. All OECD countries
are eligible to apply. In addition, the IEA Governing Board
has decided that the Implementing Agreements may also be
open to non-member countries. If you are interested in finding out more
about IEA Bioenergy, please contact the Executive Committee
Secretary