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Renewtec AB visits CEDER

On the 31st of July, Jörgen Held, CEO Renewtec AB, visited CEDER in Soria, Spain.
Miguel Fernandez Llorente, Head of the biomass unit, gave a valuable and informative guided tour in the well-equipped biomass laboratory and showed the pilot and demonstration scale installations (boilers, furnaces and gasifiers) at CEDER.

Besides energy conversion related activities, biomass-based extraction of essential oils is gaining more and more interest.

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Miguel Fernandez Llorente in front of a refrigerator filled with bottles containing samples of essential oils.

 

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Miguel Fernandez Llorente and Jörgen Held in the entrance of the biomass laboratory.

Renewtec visits EnergyLab in Vigo

On the 21st of July Jörgen Held visited EnergyLab in Vigo, Spain.
Yarima Torreiro Villarino; head of the bioenergy department, Sonia Pascual Amigo, responsible for international projects and Xandre Costas Pérez, researcher participated from EnergyLab’s side.

Besides collaboration opportunities, gasification was one of the core topics discussed during the meeting.

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From left: Sonia Pascual, Xandre Costas and Jörgen Held

Jörgen Held presented the SynFerm project, where thermal gasification of woody biomass is combined with biological methanation for efficient biomethane production.

Xandre Costas presented the updated gasification and gas cleaning system at EnergyLab as well as an idea for a new project.

Sonia Pascual presented potential Horizon Europe project collaboration opportunities.

 

REGATEC 2022 is in good progress

REGATEC 2022 takes place 17-18 May at Scandic Triangeln in Malmö. With two months to go the interest is very strong.

There are now only 4 exhibitor spaces left before the exhibition is sold out. 1 Gold Sponsor and 7 Silver Sponsors  covering anaerobic digestion, gasification, power-to-gas, monitoring and optimization, as well as trading show that REGATEC is a true hotspot for the AD, gasification and P2G communities.

The call for posters is open until 31 March and there are still a few places left.

For more info: https://www.regatec.org

REGATEC 2020* take aways

REGATEC 2020* (postponed from May 2020 until September 2021) took place 20-21 September 2021 in Weimar. The conference was organised in collaboration with the Energy Agency of Thuringia.

106 physical and 13 online participants from 20 countries, 11 sponsors and 30 exhibitors made REGATEC a vibrant hotspot for the biogas, biomass gasification and P2G community.

Hot topics were, among others, biogas liquefaction and syngas fermentation. Industrial scale microbial methanation projects were presented together with first-of-a-kind industrial scale biomass gasification and biogas pre-treatment plants.

The conference proceedings with short extended abstract of the presentations are available, free of charge. For more info: http://regatec.org/home/conference-proceedings/

CIEMAT appoints Jörgen Held as an international technical expert and strategy evaluator

Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT) is a Spanish public body of research of excellence in energy and environment matters, as well as in multiple cutting-edge technologies and in some areas of basic research attached to the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

Jörgen Held and four other international experts have been assigned to evaluate the new research strategy of Bioenergy, Bioproducts and Wastes at CIEMAT and give feedback and recommendations on the different research lines.