Luleå University of Technology in Sweden announced plans to start a research center on the production of fuel gas from biomass. The new Swedish Gasification Centre (SFC) on the Luleå campus is expected to have a budget of SEK 540 million (USD 84.7 million) over 10 years.
SFC will combine industry and academic researchers from Umeå University and Chalmers University of Technology, as well as Luleå. The Energy Technology Center (ETC) in Piteå and Bio4Energy are also project participants. Both organizations work in alternative fuels that take advantage of Sweden’s experience in forest-based industries.
Luleå adjunct professor Rikard Gebart will lead SFC. Gebart is also president of Energy Technology Center, a research and development facility for renewable fuels focusing on combustion, gasification, and biorefining processes. Last month, ETC began real-world tests of a pilot-scale biomass gasifier that turns forest residues into synthetic gas for transportation biofuels.
The Bio4Energy project includes academic and industrial scientists conducting R&D on biomass feedstocks, from the design of seeds through recycling or recovering byproducts that typically go to waste in forestry operations. Bio4Energy has been working on converting biomass ashes and sludge into energy and useful industrial materials, as well as the capture and recycling of carbon dioxide.
Read more: Grants Awarded for Biomass Research and Development
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