Bioenergy and Microalgae - Bioenergy 2020+ GmbH · Bioenergy and Microalgae Research and networking activities at the Austrian competence centre ... R&D in biofuels combustion and

Contribution to the J –EraCenter Workshop

Vienna, Austria, 21.11.2013

Bioenergy and Microalgae Research and networking activities at the Austrian competence centre

BIOENERGY 2020+ with a special focus on Algae energy

Andrea Sonnleitner, Dina Bacovsky, Manfred Woergetter*

*) presenting author

Content

■ Introducing bioenergy 2020+

■ Renewable Energy in Austria

■ Algae – a future bioenergy source?

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Introducing Bioenergy2020+

■ Headquarter Graz, branch

locations in Guessing and

Wieselburg,

■ Currently 100 employees

■ Turnover: 8 mio. €

2002: Austrian Bioenergy

Centre of Competence

(ABC)

2009: ABC and RENET

Austria merged to

BIOENERGY2020+

Slide 3

www.bioenergy2020.eu

http://www.bioenergy2020.eu/

We are strong in …

… R&D in biofuels combustion and emission reduction in

small, medium and industrial scale

… R&D in thermal biomass gasification, upgrading of synthesis gas,

synthesis of biofuels (including BioH2)

… Modelling and simulation of combustion and gasification

… Biogas production via fermentation (including difficult wastes like

slaughterhouse residues)

… Innovative solid, liquid and gaseous biofuels for power &

transport (including feedstock production and logistics)

… Networking, information dissemination, lobbying, education

Slide 4

The bioenergy2020+ Vision

Help to reach the EU 2020 Renewable Energy Goals

Contributing to a European Zero Carbon Society in 2050

Business services of BIOENERGY2020+

■ Research cooperation

■ Contract research

■ Consultancy

■ Strategic

■ Technological

■ Methodological

■ Networking activities

■ IEA Bioenergy Task 39

■ IEA Advanced Motor Fuels

■ European Biofuels Technology Platform

J -EraCenter, Vienna, Austria, 21.11.2013 Slide 5

http://www.bioenergy2020.eu/app/web

root/files/file/Folder_BE2020.pdf

http://www.bioenergy2020.eu/app/webroot/files/file/Folder_BE2020.pdf



Market

Strong International Cooperation

IEA Bioenergy's vision is to achieve a substantial bioenergy contribution to

future global energy demands by accelerating the production and use of

environmentally sound, socially accepted and cost-competitive bioenergy on a

sustainable basis, thus providing increased security of supply whilst reducing

greenhouse gas emissions from energy use.

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www.ieabioenergy.com

http://www.ieabioenergy.com/

Renewable Energy in Austria

Slide 7

Austria: Gross Domestic Energy Consumption 2009

Slide 8

Source: http://www.4biomass.eu/document/file/basic-data-bioenergy-austria-2012.pdf

http://www.4biomass.eu/document/file/basic-data-bioenergy-austria-2012.pdf









Austria: Gross Domestic Consumption of Renewable Energy Sources 2009

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Austria: Gross Domestic Consumption of Bioenery 2009

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Austria: National Renewable Energy Action Plan

■ Stabilize the end use energy consumption:

In 2020 the same as in 2005: 1 100 PJ

- 22 % in the traffic sector

- 12 % heating and cooling

- 6 % in electricity

■ More renewable energy: from 328 PJ in 2008 to 388 PJ in 2020: + 20 %

■ Renewable energy share in 2020*:

51 % Bioenergy

41.2 % Hydropower

4.5 % Wind

0.3 % Photovoltaik

Slide 11

* share of energy from renewable sources in gross final consumption

Algae – a future bioenergy source?

Slide 12

Reasons for algal biofuel

Reasons for algal biofuel

■ high per-acre productivity,

■ non-food based feedstock,

■ use of non-productive land,

■ use of fresh, brackish, saline,

marine, produced, and waste

water,

■ both biofuels and co-products,

■ recycling of CO2 and nutrient

waste streams

Roadmap suggestions

many years of basic/ applied

science/ engineering needed to

achieve

■ affordable,

■ scalable, and

■ sustainable algal-based fuels.

Quickly implement innovative

technologies in an integrated

process

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The DOE Aquatic Species Program (1978 to 1996) illustrated the potential

of algae. Rising petroleum prices and the RFS Standards have renewed

interest in developing algal biofuels

J -EraCenter, Vienna, Austria, 21.11.2013

Research: Algae&Energy:Austria

Algae - a future renewable energy source? State of

the art and future perspectives for the Austrian

energy system

■ Scenarios for 2020 and 2050

■ technological, economical and ecological assessment

■ BE2020:

■ State of the art of algae production technologies

■ Algae oil for biodiesel production

■ Economic assessment of scenarios


Project report (German):

http://www.joanneum.at/uploads/media/NE_TDS_AlgaeEnergyAustria_825403_publizierbar

erEndbericht_20130115.pdf

http://www.joanneum.at/uploads/media/NE_TDS_AlgaeEnergyAustria_825403_publizierbarerEndbericht_20130115.pdf




Research: Algae&Energy:Austria

■ Technological and economical assessment:

■ Potential of long-term scenarios

■ Many promising pathways

■ Research and development demand along the entire value

chain (cultivation, harvesting, processing, conversion,

exploitation, integration in existing infrastructure) was

identified

■ Promising topics of interest for BIOENERGY2020+

■ Utilization of wastewater as nutrient source

■ Hydrothermal conversion of wet biomass

■ Cascadic exploitation of biomass in biorefineries


Research project SAM: Synergies of Wastewater Treatment and Microalgae Cultivation

■ Identification of different nutrient sources for algae cultivation

(municipal, agricultural, industrial)

■ Selection and characterisation of suitable microalgae

■ Technological systems for cultivation and harvesting

■ Exploitation potential of cultivated algae biomass

■ Identification of production

concepts and resulting

research demand


Project report (German):

http://www.bioenergy2020.eu/app/webroot/files/file/

Projektendbericht_Synergie_Abwasser_Mikroalgen

_2013.pdf

http://www.bioenergy2020.eu/app/webroot/files/file/Projektendbericht_Synergie_Abwasser_Mikroalgen_2013.pdf





Exchange of experiences: NIWA

■ National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research in

New Zealand, Dr. Rupert Craggs

■ six month research internship(Stefan Humel)

■ „Algae cultivation in wastewater treatment High Rate

Algae Ponds and Photobioreactors“


Exchange of experiences : NIWA

■ Comparison open - closed systems, Monitoring

■ Development of Photobioreactor


Exchange of experiences: IEA Bioenergy Task 39

■ Al Darzins, Philip Pienkos, Les Edye

(2010):

Current Status and Potential for Algal

Biofuels Production

■ Presentation of report at AquaFUELs

Roundtable, October 2010, Brussels

■ Further networking via EABA

European Algae Biomass Association

(f.e. with AlgaePARC Wageningen)

■ Planned common activities of DECHEMA and IEA

Bioenergy Task 39 (International experts workshop 2015)


Exchange of experiences: IEA Advanced Motor Fuels Agreement

■ Karen Sikes, Martijn Van Walwijk,

Ralph McGill (2010):

Algae as a Feedstock for Biofuels:

An Assessment of the State of

the Technology and Opportunities

■ 2011 Synthesis Report

IEA AMF & IEA Bioenergy Task 39:

Algae as a Feedstock for Biofuels -

An Assessment of the Current Status and Potential

for Algal Biofuels Production


http://task39.org/files/2013/05/Algal-Biofuels-IEA-Task-39-and-AMF-Joint-Summary.pdf



















Findings

■ Algae have potential as a feedstock for biofuels.

■ Productivity can be higher than for terrestrial crops.

■ Algae can be cultivated at sea or on non-arable land, so

there is no competition with current food production.

■ These reasons justify attention to algal biofuels from

researchers, industries and (governmental) policy

makers.

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Algae related competences of BIOENERGY2020+

■ Austrian excellence in research in the fields of

■ Biogas

■ Biofuels - conventional and innovative

■ Fuel, substrate and ash characterisation

■ CFD simulation and modelling

■ Cultivation of microalgae and cyanobacteria in lab-

scale

■ Products and exploitation pathways of algae

■ Algae for ecotoxicology


Interested in cooperation?

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AOCS Conference Vienna 5-7 Nov 2007

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Thanks for your

attention!

BIOENERGY 2020+ Unit Biofuels

■ Technologies:

■ Overview of 2nd Generation Biofuel Demoplants

■ Research on novel feedstock for biofuelsproduction:

■ Jatropha curcas and mahafalensis

■ Microalgae

■ National and international networking:

■ IEA Bioenergy Task 39: Commercializing Liquid Biofuels

■ IEA Advanced Motor Fuels

■ Sustainability certification of liquid and solid biofuels

■ ForNeBiK

■ European Biofuels Technology Platform


Algae Biofuels in Roadmaps

■ DOE Aquatic Species Program 1978 – 1996 (Sheehan, 1998)

■ USDOE: National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap, 2010

■ IEA Technology Roadmap Biofuels for Transport 2011

■ IEA AMF Roadmap

■ IEA Bioenergy Task 39 & IEA AMF Summary Report (2011)

■ ALGAE&ENERGY:AUSTRIA (2012)

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Networking: Network Biofuels

■ On behalf of Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation

and Technology

■ Basic knowledge on biofuels in Austria

■ News, publications and events

■ Database with R&D projects, experts, organisations and

platforms

■ Diverse information spreading:

■ Weekly newsletter

■ www.network-biofuels.at

■ twitter.com/biotreibstoffe (German)


http://www.netzwerk-biotreibstoffe.at/




twitter.com/biotreibstoffe

twitter.com/biotreibstoffe

Networking: Project Network Biobased Industry

■ Consolidated network and

dissemination within the topic of

Biobased Industry in Austria

■ Continuation of

Newsletter

Biobased Future

■ Organisation of networking

events on „ Algae as

biogenic resource -

stakeholders in Austria“ On behalf of Federal Ministry of Transport,

Innovation and Technology


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