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Sustainable bioenergy production and use in the EU should be further developed in order to support Member States (MS) achieving 20-20-20 targets and foster rural development as set out in EIP AGRI. FORBIO will demonstrate the viability of using land in MSs for non-food bioenergy feedstock production without interfering with the production of food or feed, nor with land currently used for recreational and/or conservational purposes. Competition with other uses of the land is only one component of the sustainability of bioenergy and a number of cross-cutting environmental, social and economic aspects may present challenges to the extended deployment of these value chains, while assuring that biofuel sustainability standards are met. FORBIO will develop a methodology to assess bioenergy production potential on available 'underutilised lands' in Europe (contaminated, abandoned, fallow land, etc.) at national and local level. In addition, in this context the project will provide multiple feasibility studies in selected case study locations in three countries that that aim to set the basis for building up local bioenergy value chains that meet the highest sustainability standards and improve efficiency and sustainability of those already available in the case study sites through the provision of roadmaps for bioenergy development.
The aim of greenGain is to strengthen the energy use of regional and local biomass from the maintenance of areas and landscape elements, which is performed in the public interest. The scope of the biomass used, will be any material predominantly produced from nature conservation and landscape management, but not from energy-crops. The main target groups are regional and local players, who are responsible for maintenance and conservation work and for the biomass residue management in their regions. Moreover, the focus will be on service providers - including farmers and forest owners, their associations, NGOs and energy providers and consumers. The project will show strategies to build up reliable knowledge on local availability of these feedstocks and know-how on issues from logistics to storage and sustainable conversion pathways for the transformation of these feedstocks to renewable energy (heat and energy products). Furthermore political, legal and environmental aspects will be addressed in model regions. Awareness raising, governance and public acceptance actions will be focussed on. General guidelines will be prepared to guarantee a wide dissemination to other regions in the EU. The regional partners will be actively supported by Technical Partners for the project measures' development and implementation. As a CSA, the project focal point will be the exchange between the model regions and other similar relevant players in the EU, by good practice exchange, a topic-specific website, several workshops and educational site visits in different regions as well as other standard public relations activities. The project team is carefully balanced between technical and scientific organisations and local demand side oriented players. Regions in northern Europe with a wide knowledge in this field are cooperating with European (south-west, middle, east) regions, having an untapped potential, that can be accessed through efficient knowledge transfer.
The overall objective of Residue2Heat is to enable the utilization of sustainable, ash rich biomass and residues in residential heating applications (20-200 kWth) to provide sustainable heat at a competitive price. In this concept, various 2nd generation agricultural, and forestry residue streams are converted into a liquid energy carrier near the biomass origin at an economic viable scale of 15-30 MWth using the fast pyrolysis process. Subsequently, the fast pyrolysis bio-oil (FPBO) is distributed to a large number of residential end-users. The FPBO should fulfill at least the draft CEN-specification for replacement of domestic heating oil and comply with REACH regulation. Additional quality control aspects for this application include the removal of extractives and solids from the FPBO. Ash is recovered from the fast pyrolysis process as a separate stream, and recycling and/or re-use will be evaluated in detail. Existing high efficient, condensing boilers are used as starting point in the project, as well as a proven, low emission blue-flame type burner. Within Residue2Heat technical development work is performed on the modification of such systems to enable FPBO as fuel. The emission control and energy efficiency of the heating systems are optimized by dedicated modeling of FPBO atomization and combustion kinetics, supported by single droplet combustion tests and spray characterization. This route benefits from the flexible nature of the fast pyrolysis process, allowing the use of various lignocellulosic biomass streams, but also by using modified residential heating systems for which manufacturing capabilities, market development and product distribution are already in place. Dedicated tasks are included to assess the environmental and social impacts, risks analysis and public acceptance. Additionally, business and market assessment activities are performed including specific issues on health and safety relevant to FPBO-fuelled residential boilers.
The EOSC-hub project brings together providers from the EGI Federation, EUDAT CDI, INDIGO-DataCloud and other major research infrastructures that provide services, software and data for advanced data-driven research and innovation. These resources are offered through the Hub - the integration and management system of the European Open Science Cloud - which acts as a central contact point for all relevant actors. In cooperation with the Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), the DKRZ brings the 'ENES Climate Analytic Service' (ECAS) into EOSC-hub, which enables end users to carry out data analyses on large amounts of climate data based on a PID-enabled and server-side approach. In addition, DKRZ participates in the EOSC-hub services B2HANDLE and B2FIND.
The ECOMS2 Action will coordinate and support Europe's knowledge base to enable better management of climate-related risks and opportunities thereby creating greater social and economic value. ECOMS2 has 4 main objectives: 1. Develop a European framework for Earth-system modelling and climate service activities. The framework will be built around a managed network of European, national and international activities and organisations. 2. Coordinate and integrate European climate modelling, climate observations and climate service infrastructure initiatives (including JPI-Climate, Climate-KIC, Copernicus C3S) and facilitate dialogue among the relevant stakeholders, including climate science communities, funding bodies, providers and users. The user communities will include public sector, businesses, industry and society. 3. Establish multi-disciplinary expert groups to assess the state-of-the-art in Earth-system modelling and climate services in Europe; and identify existing gaps, new challenges and emerging needs. 4. Enhance communication and dissemination activities with stakeholders; operating a website; and undertaking additional stakeholder interactions to increase awareness and maximise project impacts. Two key expected impacts of ECOMS2 are (i) to greatly enhance the transfer of information between suppliers and users to improve the resilience of European society to climate change and mitigation of the risk of dangerous climate change; and (ii) to improve coordination to increase efficiency, reduce fragmentation and create synergies with international R&I programmes. As a key contribution to objective 4 mentioned above, GERICS will lead a work package with the objective to organise festivals to: 1. Enable exchange of knowledge among users, providers, intermediaries, funders through showcases of European climate services and Earth System modelling; 2. Provide results from mapping and forward looking analyses developed in other work packages to a larger audience; and 3. Strengthen science-policy and science-use interface.
Am 1. September 2016 starteten 22 nationale und internationale Partner die Zusammenarbeit im Europäischen Forschungsvorhaben FORCE - Cities cooperating for circular economy . Das Projekt hat das Ziel, neue Konzepte zur Abfallvermeidung und -behandlung für die Stoffströme Kunststoff, Biomasse, Elektroaltgeräte und Holz zu entwickeln. Der Fokus in Hamburg liegt auf der Sammlung, Erfassung, Verwertung und gegebenenfalls Weiternutzung von Elektroaltgeräten, um die darin enthaltenen (strategischen) Metalle im Wertstoffkreislauf zu halten. Neben der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg sind drei weitere EU-Städte beteiligt, in denen sich die dortigen Projektpartner jeweils auf einen Stoffstrom fokussieren. Der Gesamtprojektleiter Kopenhagen beschäftigt sich mit Kunststoff-, Lissabon mit Bio-, Genua mit Holz- und Hamburg mit Elektroabfällen. In Hamburg soll u.a. ein Portal bzw. eine App für Reparaturbetriebe eingerichtet, Repair-Cafés und Sammelstellen aufgebaut, vorhandene Erfassungs- und Sammelsysteme optimiert und ein Pilotversuch für ein neues Sammelsystem initiiert werden. Die gesammelten Elektroaltgeräte werden - bei entsprechender Eignung - aufgearbeitet und zum Verkauf angeboten oder in Einzelteile zerlegt und recycelt. Die anderen drei Stoffströme (in Hamburg also Kunststoff, Biomasse und Holz) werden von der Stadtreinigung Hamburg in kleineren Demonstrationsvorhaben bearbeitet. Das Projekt leistet einen entscheidenden Beitrag zu den Europäischen Zielen, bis 2030 mindestens 65 Prozent des kommunalen Müllvorkommens und 75 Prozent des Verpackungsmülls recyceln zu wollen.
By 2020, several areas of the HVAC pan-European transmission system will be operated with extremely high penetrations of Power Electronics(PE)-interfaced generators, thus becoming the only generating units for some periods of the day or of the year - due to renewable (wind, solar) electricity. This will result in i) growing dynamic stability issues for the power system (possibly a new major barrier against future renewable penetration), ii) the necessity to upgrade existing protection schemes and iii) measures to mitigate the resulting degradation of power quality due to harmonics propagation. European TSOs from Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain and UK have joined to address such challenges with manufacturers (Alstom, Enercon, Schneider Electric) and universities/research centres. They propose innovative solutions to progressively adjust the HVAC system operations. Firstly, a replicable methodology is developed for appraising the distance of any EU 28 control zone to instability due to PE proliferation and for monitoring it in real time, along with a portfolio of incremental improvements of existing technologies (the tuning of controllers, a pilot test of wide-area control techniques and the upgrading of protection devices with impacts on the present grid codes). Next, innovative power system control laws are designed to cope with the lack of synchronous machines. Numerical simulations and laboratory tests deliver promising control solutions together with recommendations for new PE grid connection rules and the development of a novel protection technology and mitigation of the foreseen power quality disturbances. Technology and economic impacts of such innovations are quantified together with barriers to be overcome in order to recommend future deployment scenarios. Dissemination activities support the deployment schemes of the project outputs based on knowledge sharing among targeted stakeholders at EC level.
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