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| Biomass and Waste as Renewable
Fuels for Process and Transportation |
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Principal Investigators
ETH:
S.Stucki, A.Wokaun
UT: K.Yoshida, Y.Matsumura
Biomass and
Waste (B&W) are readily available and ubiquitous resources. If
managed and used sustainably, they are renewable and can contribute
to a global reduction strategy for CO2 emissions. Sustainable use of
B&W for the efficient substitution of fossil fuels requires
advanced technologies.
Goals/Objectives
The
research addresses primarily the technology challenge in the
utilization of B&W as an energy and/or carbon sequestration.
Gasification is often referred to as a complex and expensive
technology which cannot beat economically the much more
straightforward direct combustion. The goals of the project
were:
- To assess the potential of gasification technologies
- To analyze the technical and non-technical reasons for the
limited success of gasification in the market of energy
technologies
- And to identify the research needed to help advanced
technologies find broader
applications.
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