S2Biom summer school
Athens, Greece
17-20 May 2016
S2Biom project organised a 4 days summer school for Master, PhD and Post-doc students, as well as for researchers from universities and other research institutions. In total around 50 participants attended the summer school which has been hosted by the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Zografou Campus in Athens. The summer school included following sessions:
- Sustainable supply of non-food biomass to support a “resource-efficient” Bioeconomy in Europe
- Estimation of biomass availability for lignocellulosic biomass
- Biomass conversion technologies
- Matching the biomass to conversion technologies
- Biomass logistics
- Policies & case studies
More information and agenda can be found HERE.
Read the summary report of the summer school!
Summer school presentations:
Day 1:Biomass supply & S2Biom toolset
- Welcome from NTUA (Assoc. Prof. Sotirios Karellas, NTUA)
- Welcome from CERTH (Manolis Karampinis, CERTH)
- Introduction to S2Biom project (Ludger Wenzelides, FNR)
- Sustainable supply of non-food biomass a resource efficient bioeconomy: Review on the state-of-the-art (Ilze Dzene, WIP)
- Mapping of the biomass availability and cost supply curves (Igor Staritsky, DLO-Alterra)
- Assessment of the cropping potential and the development of dedicated crops database (Jacqueline Ramírez Almeyda, UniBO)
- Biomass availability maps and cost supply curves (Raymond Schrijver, DLO – Alterra)
Day 2: Conversion technologies
- Overview on biomass conversion technologies for energy and fuels (Tijs Lammens, BTG)
- Overview on biomass conversion technologies for bio-based products (Ludger Wenzelides, FNR)
- Matching the biomass to conversion technologies (Tijs Lammens, BTG)
Day 3: Logistics
- The main logistical components and logistic concepts (Igor Staritsky, DLO-Alterra)
- BeWhere Tool: Optimal Technology, Location and Capacity of Bio-Energy Plants and Evaluation (Sylvain Leduc, IIASA)
Day 4: Policy and case studies
