Industry Platform - Bioenergy Retrofits for Europe’s Industry

The objective of this platform is to support the networking between industries to foster market uptake of retrofitting technologies, to gather feedback and recommendations from the industry, NGOs, and policy makers, and to exchange knowledge and experiences among the different industries. In this context, regular working group meetings will be hold as side events of conferences, workshops and industrial meetings. Open to public, relevant drivers, opportunities and barriers of retrofitting will be discussed and possible solutions will be presented and evaluated.

Stakeholders interested to join the BIOFIT Industry Platform are kindly asked to get in contact with Arne Gröngröft, DBFZ Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum gemeinnützige GmbH via [email protected]

BIOFIT Events

BIOFIT Industry Forum - H2020 Project on Bioenergy Retrofits for Europe’s Industry
When: 9 July 2020, 13:00 - 15:00 pm
Where: E-EUBCE 2020, Online Conference

detailed information ( https://www.eubce.com/biofit-industry-forum-h2020-project-on-bioenergy-retrofits-for-europes-industry.html?utm_campaign=23rd%20HTML%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=EOACLK )

The BIOFIT EU project aims to facilitate the introduction of bioenergy retrofitting in Europe’s industry, focussing on bioenergy retrofitting in the five chosen specific industries, namely first-generation biofuels, pulp and paper, fossil refineries, fossil firing power and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plants. The E-EUBCE 2020 workshop will present and discuss the projects interim results.

13:00	Short introduction to webinar procedure	Patrick Reumermann, Arne Gröngröft	BTG Biomass Technology Group BV DBFZ
13:05 - 13:10	BIOFIT: Bioenergy Retrofits for Europe’s Industry	Patrick Reumerman	BTG Biomass Technology Group BV
13:10 - 13:20	Retrofitting in pulp and paper industry facilities: towards a more efficient usage of bioenergy	Kristian Melin	VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland LTD
13:20 - 13:30	1G biofuel facilities: how can they play a role in producing advanced biofuels?	Arne Gröngröft	DBFZ Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum gemeinnützige GmbH
13:30 - 13:45	Discussion/ Questions of participants	All, chaired by Patrick Reumermann
13:45 - 13:55	Repowering coal power and CHP plants with biomass	Michalis-Alexandros Kougioumtzis	Centre for Research & Technology Hellas
13:55 - 14:05	Possibilities for transition of fossil refineries into biorefineries	Claude Mirodatos	IRCELYON - Institut de recherches sur la catalyse et l’environnement de Lyon
14:05 - 14:15	Policy recommendations for bioenergy retrofitting	Dominik Rutz	WIP
14:15	Questions of attendees & Open Panel Discussion with all speakers	All, Chaired by Patrick Reumermann	BTG Biomass Technology Group BV

Industry Forum on biofuels
26 February 2020, Madrid, Spain

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Industry Forum on repowering coal power plants with biomass
19 November 2019, Brussels, Belgium

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Industry Forum on retrofitting measures for biofuel plants
11 September 2019, Leipzig

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BIOFIT Industrial Advisory Board (IAB)

The was created at the beginning of the project in order to provide feedback to the methodology, recommendations, policy paper, surveys, etc.

Name	Organisation	Industrial Sector	Position
Dr. Edgar Ahn	BDI Holding GmbH	1G biofuels	Chief Innovation Officer
Dr. Karoline Seefeldt	TOTAL Deutschland GmbH	fossil refineries	Expert in sustainable development
Luc Pelkmans	International Energy Agency (IEA) Bioenergy	European and national energy / environmental authorities and policy makers	Technical Coordinator
Nicola Rega	Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI)	pulp and paper	Climate Change & Energy Director