1st Summer School ZELCOR: Zero waste biorefineries: technical advances and sustainability assessment

A dedicated summer school training on waste biorefineries in the context of bioeconomy, with a focus on valorization of recalcitrant side streams.

This Summer School is hosted by The Graduate School VLAG in cooperation with INRA (France), Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (the Netherlands) and nova-Institut GmbH (Germany).

The event will take place at the Wageningen International Congress Center (WICC) in Wageningen, The Netherlands

Themes and topics

• Feedstock availabililty, logistics, storage, handling and feeding
• Zero waste biorefiniries: examples and needs
• Markets and products
• Functionalised packaging materials
• Biochemical conversion
• Thermochemical conversion
• Analytical techniques in biorefining with focus on recalcitrant streams
• Value chain assessment of zero waste biorefineries and their products

You can find more details on the programme and registration on our website: Summer School ZELCOR and in the attached file. ZELCOR_summerschool