Every three years, the World Energy Council explores possible developments of the global energy system under different scenarios. Tom Kober, head of the Energy Economics Group at PSI and one of the lead authors of the study, explains what the individual projections mean and how global warming could be mitigated. Since 2010, the World Energy Council has been developing these World Energy Scenarios and publishing them every three years…
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In the energy sector, decisions and technology implementations often necessitate a mid- to long-term perspective. Thus, reliable assessments of future resource availability are needed to support the decision-making process. In Switzerland, similarly to other countries, only a limited part of the available wet biomass feedstock is currently used for anaerobic digestion. Understanding potential future trajectories of the available biomass amount is…
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In a joint research project of five Swiss competence centres for energy research, scientists of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Swiss Federal Instiute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, the Zurich University for Applied Sciences (ZHAW), the University…
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Next generation cogeneration system for industry – Combined heat and fuel plant using biomass resources Authors: Celebi, A.D., Sharma, S., Ensinas, A.V., Maréchal, F. Full article in Chemical Engineering Science The requirement for sustainable economic growth together with global warming…
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All biomass potentials (woody and non-woody) and all biogas plant locations are now available online as maps. The SCCER BIOSWEET team at the WSL has published the data together with the Swiss Federal Office of Energy on the mapping platform of the Swiss Confederation (map.geo.admin.ch). The maps show…
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The Catalytic Process Engineering (CPE) group at PSI participates in a new project dedicated to the development of an entire process chain to produce sustainable liquid fuels based on hydrothermal liquefaction of a broad range of biomass feedstocks. The project…
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