IEA Bioenergy Webinar – Biomass Pretreatment Options to Diversify the Resource Base

25 Apr 2019
Webinars

  • Jaap Koppejan Managing Director Procede Biomass BV

  • Michael Wild Principal Wild&Partner LLC President Internat. Biomass Torrefaction Council-IBTC

  • Évelyne Thiffault Assistant Professor Department of Wood & Forest Sciences Laval University, Quebec

  • Kevin J. Whitty Professor of Chemical Engineering The University of Utah

  • Marcel Cremers Business Lead (Emerging) Energy Technologies / Senior Consultant DNV GL

  • K.P.H. Meesters (Koen) Project Leader Biobased Economy WFBR: Wageningen Food and Biobased Research

An increased demand for biomass means that greater mobilisation of biomass resources will be required to meet market needs. The availability of biomass has been addressed in many studies and may be limited by various environmental, economic, logistical, technical or policy factors. The breadth of suitable biomass feedstocks can be expanded by pretreating otherwise marginal-quality materials to improve their energy content, chemical composition or physical properties. This webinar presents the results of an IEA Bioenergy intertask project that focused on opportunities for biomass pretreatment. It shows how currently available pretreatment technologies and technologies under development can help the supply chains for available solid biomass resources for thermochemical conversion. Five carefully selected case studies describe key options for pretreatment of solid biomass resources for energy generation, including their costs, effectiveness and commercial status.

Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4SSD04KKxQ to view webinar including discussion and questions

Download presentation FINAL_Intertask fuel pretreatment