Articles about Bio4Energy

New Deputy programme manager of Bio4Energy

Elisabeth Wetterlund, associate professor of Energy Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, has been appointed new deputy director of the research environment Bio4Energy. Bio4Energy is a Swedish strategic research environment with emphasis on research that uses the forest as raw material for sustainable production of energy carriers, new materials and biofuels.

Forest and sea residues strengthen the stomach

With the help of forest residues such as sawdust, branches and tops (GROT) and cellulose from sea squirts, researchers in Biochemical Process Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, want to make our stomach to feel better. The researchers are the first to develop prebiotics from non-edible forest and sea resources, into a type of fiber that helps beneficial bacteria in the large intestine to thrive and multiply.

Researchers want to test-fly Swedish bio jet fuel 2021

Luleå University of Technology has been granted funding by the Swedish Energy Agency for a preparatory study, and hopefully, within a few years, they can test to produce bio jet fuel on Swedish forest–based residues - and test-fly it on commercial flights in Sweden. The preliminary study will facilitate and risk minimize a first commercial plant for the production of aviation bio jet fuel on Swedish forest–based residues.

The whole of Sweden could fly green thanks to Swedish forests

Researchers at Luleå University of Technology, working in collaboration with, among others, associates from IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, have conducted a preliminary study which shows that fossil-based aviation fuels used for Swedish domestic flights can be replaced by biofuels produced from forest residues. The researchers now want to demonstrate the production technology behind the biofuels as soon as possible to clear the way for their use on commercial domestic flights in Sweden.

The goal: a greener aviation fuel

Researchers at Luleå University of Technology participate in an exploratory study to find the most promising technologies for sustainable production of renewable aviation fuels from forest raw materials. This could reduce aviation's carbon dioxide emissions by up to 80 percent.

Multi-million investment in biomass gasification

The Swedish Energy Agency will provide 78 million for continuing research on gasification technology in the Swedish Gasification Center (SFC), where Luleå University of Technology is principal. The center consists of three independent research nodes led by Chalmers, KTH and Luleå University of Technology and focuses on two different gasification technologies and gas cleaning.

New funding for continued research in Bio4Energy

Bio4Energy - which produces methods and tools for making advanced biofuels, green chemicals and smart bio-based materials, may continue at least until 2020. Of a total of 53 new million invested into the program, Luleå University of Technology recives 20 million.

Sea squirts new raw material to bioethanol

Cellulose from Swedish large- scale seacultivation system of sea squirts is to be used for the production of bioethanol. Marine Biogas AB in Lysekil, developers of a large-scale cultivation of sea squirts for the production of biogasi, is initiating a collaboration with Luleå University of Technology. Scientits will utilise the tunicate cellulose-rich outer shell, to produce ethanol.

New step for ambitious research school

Industrial demand makes a popular research school opens its doors to more universities in the country and in addition with the ambition to become international. School, coordinated by Luleå University of Technology, is part of the strategic research project Bio4Energy and is linked to pilot plants for green fuels.

Showcasing the Swedish Model at the UN Climate Change Conference

In Qatar, the UN climate conference is underway, where environment ministers from around the world discuss commitments to reduce emissions of temperature-raising greenhouse gases. There, Sweden's three strategic research environments in sustainable energy will present the Swedish Model, something that researchers at Luleå University of Technology has significant participation in.

Bio4Energy

Bio4Energy is a Swedish strategic research environment with emphasis on research that uses the forest as raw material for sustainable production of energy carriers, new materials and biofuels. Bio4Energy is a joint national research program between Umeå University, Luleå University of Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Umeå and RISE.

Published:27 February 2016
Updated: 11 October 2019
By:IT
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