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The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) arranged on 2nd October 2023 the ‘H2020 and HE cluster Meeting for biofuels and biomethane projects’, in which CARBIOW was present through the participation of its two coordinators, Beatriz Aberasturi Serrano, from TECNALIA; and Ali Hedayati, from IVL. The event, held in Brussels (Belgium) was the […]
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Since the project was launched on 3rd November 2022, the multidisciplinary consortium has already held two biannual meetings to present progress on each Work Package. The first one was held the Month 6 at TECNALIA Research & Innovation facilities in Miñano (Álava), Spain. Partners shared their work and exchanged the first outcomes since the kick-off […]
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ETIP Bioenergy will hold its 11th Stakeholder Plenary Meeting on the next 27 and 28 September in Brussels, Belgium. This upcoming edition is focused on the measures for accelerating the energy transition towards the 2030 targets. Margarita de Gregorio, BIOPLAT’s coordinator (partner in charge of the Communication and Dissemination work package at CARBIOW project) will […]
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The plenary session of the European Parliament approved on 13 September the RefuelEU aviation rules, a new law to increase the uptake of sustainable fuels (such as advanced biofuels or hydrogen) in the aviation sector, with 518 votes in favour, 97 against and eight abstentions. Once the Council of the European Union has approved them, […]
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The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates in a report that global sustainable biofuels provided more than 4% of total transport energy supply in 2022, but their deployment is not accelerating fast enough. Production would need to triple by 2030 to put the world’s energy system on track towards net-zero emissions by 2050. Liquid biofuels provided […]
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Beatriz Aberasturi is the Project Coordinator (management) of CARBIOW. For her, “this project represents a key opportunity for the development of innovative technologies for the transformation of the Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (OFMSW) and other hard-to-utilize solid organic wastes into biofuels. The target will focus on the production of alcohols for maritime, and […]
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Ali Hedayati is a chemical and energy engineer with extensive knowledge in carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), hydrogen technologies, alternative fuels, and waste-to-energy technologies. He received his Master’s degree in Sustainable energy engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology KTH (Stockholm, Sweden) in 2011 and defended his PhDs in 2016 in Spain (UPC, Barcelona) […]
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The Diploma in Hydrogen Management of the Faculty of Engineering at Universidad Austral (Argentina) received on June 16 the visit of Edesio Miranda-Barbosa, CTO and representative of CARBIOW’S partner Svåheia Eiendom AS (SEAS) who, as an expert in CCUS, presented the most interesting advances in research and projects for the deep decarbonization of the economy, […]
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The CARBIOW project has been present during the 11th International Conference ‘Fuel Science – From Production to Propulsion‘ organized by The Fuel Science Center and RWTH Aachen University in Aachen (Germany). Two of our project colleagues, Svetlana Obydenkova, and Michelle Gian, both from the Sustainability of Materials group at Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM), presented the CARBIOW Project during the International […]
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The use of biomass to produce food, materials, and energy can help boost rural communities, increase competitiveness, and combat many of the challenges facing the EU. The Conclusions of the European Council on bioeconomy recognize the crucial role it could play in achieving the environmental and climate objectives of the European Green Deal, while making […]