Bioenergy NoE Annual Researchers' Meetings

October 17-18 2006, Helsinki, Finland

The 2006 Bioenergy NoE Researchers' Meeting was a great success.  A pre-study tour on fuel production, handling and production in Jyv?skyl?, Finland kick-started the event with about 20 researchers touring VTT and related bioenergy plants and sites, click here to read more about it.  Then, for two days in Helsinki, 65 Bioenergy NoE researchers met to share the results from the 2006 work packages and discuss ideas for joint research.  

Presentations of work by new researchers - those working in bioenergy for five years or less - proved a popular part of the meeting. Click below to view each presentation:

• Design of a plant for the production of ethanol from wheat straw
  Jarno Kuijvenhoven, ECN
• Municipal planning of waste to energy facilities
  David Longden, AU
• Multi-criteria evaluation of biofuels implementation in Poland
  Ewa Ganko, EC BREC
• Examples of large-scale biofuel R&D at VTT
  Samuli Rinne, VTT
• Linkage between bioenergy and climate change policies
  Niina Kautto, IIIEE
• Kinetic analysis of thermal decomposition of different types of biomass
  Alessandro Marongiu, FZK
• Killing two birds with one stone: the French biofuel program
  David Treguet, INRA
• Offsets in the EU ETS: the potential role of "sink" credits
  Andreas T?rk, JR

Posters

The Poster session was used to share current R&D work at partner institutes with all NoE researchers.  Some of the posters can be downloaded:

• ECOBIOM: A socio-economic and environmental approach of lignocellulosic biomass, INRA
• An energetic, environmental and economic joint approach of innovative biofuels chains based on cereal straw, INRA

Post-Meeting Event: European Conference on Biorefinery Research

At least 25 NoE researchers stayed on to attend the EC's Biorefinery Conference from the 19-20 October in Helsinki.  Click here to view the NoE poster and presentations from NoE Board Members at the Conference.