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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The large scale production of commodity chemicals from lignin, the largest source of natural renewable aromatic chemicals, has been a goal of the biomass processing industry for decades. Catalytic materials can be used to reach this goal. Prof. Jeremy Luterbacher…
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Die Fachhochschule der Südschweiz (SUPSI) untersucht mikrobiologische Verfahren, mit denen Industrieabfälle für die Produktion von Biogas eingesetzt werden können. Eines dieser Verfahren wird nun 2018 mit einer Pilotanlage beim Tessiner Milchverarbeitungsbetrieb Lati SA auf seine Praxistauglichkeit geprüft…
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