Ydna Marie Questell-Santiago fell in love with science at school and fought her way throughout obstacles and gender prejudices to become a successful scientist. Her research is about the conservation and upgrading of three main components of lignocellulosic biomass. Initial depolymerisation and separation of components. Then catalytic upgrading of each component into liquid fuels and chemicals.
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Treatech, a BIOSWEET-related start-up company, got extensively portrayed in a forecast on relevant companies for achieving SDG 6 of the UN (Sustainable Development Goal no. 6 “Clean water and sanitation”). The forecast is edited by valuer.ai, a start-up scouting platform…
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Authors: A.M. Bahmanpour, F. Héroguel, M. Kılıç, C.J. Baranowski, P. Schouwink, U. Röthlisberger, J.S. Luterbacher, O. Kröcher CO2 catalytic hydrogenation to CO will likely be an important part of CO2 mitigation and valorization processes. Recently, we have developed materials containing…
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An agent-based model of wood markets: Scenario analysis Note: this work was conducted by WSL without specific funding from the SCCER BIOSWEET, but results remain relevant for the SCCER Authors: S. Holm, O. Thees, R. Lemm, R. Olschewski, L.M….
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How does wood mobilization depend on marketing decisions? A country comparison based on choice experiments Note: this work was conducted by WSL without specific funding from the SCCER BIOSWEET, but results remain relevant for the SCCER Authors: R. Olschewski,…
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Grünes Öl aus der Schweiz. Die Trockenheit lässt die Holzlager überquellen. Das rückt eine alte Idee wieder in den Vordergrund: Schweizer Holz als Energiequelle zu nutzen. Der grünen Lunge vor den Toren Basels droht ein Infarkt. Baumgruppen im Hardwald zwischen Birsfelden, Muttenz und Pratteln zeigen sich braun, gelb und abgestorben. Bäume können umstürzen, Kronenteile abbrechen…
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