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FraunhoFer InnovatIon Cluster

F R A U N H O F E R I N S T I T U T E F O R E N v I R O N m E N TA l ,

S A F E T y, A N d E N E R g y T E c H N O l O g y U m S I c H T

www.umsicht.fraunhofer.de/en/divisions/processes/projects.html

FUNdINg NOTE

The Fraunhofer Innovation Cluster "Bioenergy" is funded by the Ministry for Innovati-on, Science and Research of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia from sources of the European Foundation for Regional Development (EFRE) and from sources of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.

FUNdEd By

c o n t a c t

Dr.-Ing. Esther Stahl

Central office "bioenergy"

Group Manager Biomass and Residue Utilization

Phone +49 208 8598-1158

esther.stahl@umsicht.fraunhofer.de sustaInable supply wIth raw materIals and energy

P A R T N E R S I N v O l v E d I N F R A U N H O F E R

I N N O v A T I O N c l U S T E R "B I O E N E R g y "

CLAAS KGaA mbH

EnergyAgency.NRW

Franz-Josef Kipp GmbH & Co. KG

Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT

GEA Westfalia Separator Group

GRONEMEYER & BANCK GmbH & Co. KG

Kreis Weseler Abfallgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG

Loick Bioenergie GmbH

Pfeifer & Langen GmbH & Co. KG

Phytowelt GreenTechnologies GmbH

Ruhr University Bochum, Chair of Process Engineering for Transport Processes

STEAG GmbH

Thünen-Institut für Holzforschung (TI-HF)

Wirtschaftsbetrieb Hagen WBH

Agriculture / Biomass supply

Food industry

(Agricultural machine and) mechanical

engineering

Energy industry

Waste management industry

Research / Innovation

Publicly owned undertaking

m A P O F P A R T N E R S I N N R W

Pyrolysis oil Biochar Chemistry raw material

Fraunhofer-Innovation Clusters are framed and performed within the "Pact for Research and Innovation" of the Fraunhofer-Society. They network existing structures – research facilities, industrial partners and universities – and promote a seminal research area, regio-nally dedicated. The Fraunhofer-Innovation Cluster "Bioenergy" in Oberhausen accumula-tes the competences of industry, science and the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia to draft novel conceptions of use for biomass.

Solid fuels

bioenergy

Project concept and technology elements in Fraunhofer Innovation Cluster "Bioenergy".

P R O j E c T S c H E m E

Bio waste Green waste materials Straw

Material and energetic use of biomass are expected to contribute

significantly towards satisfaction of the worldwide need for raw

material and energy and therefore will help reducing greenhouse

gases, especially CO2. Currently, present conceptions of utilization

for biomass base on either lignocellulose-poor biomass (biogas,

bioethanol, biodiesel, industrial / white biotechnology) or focus on

dry lignocellulose-containing biomass, e. g. for combustion, bio-

mass-to-liquid-processes etc. Examples of global huge quantities

of fresh biomass and biogenic residues are grass and green waste

as well as harvest residues and process offcut from agricultural

production and forestry. Regarding energetic and material utiliza-

tion of such biomass, effective processes are only limited available.

Thus, the Innovation Cluster "Bioenergy" aims at process develop-

ment for efficient exploitation of such biomass.

FRAUNHOFER INNOvATION clUSTER "BIOENERgy"EXPLORING POTENTIALS OF BIOMASS – DEVELOPING

INNOVATIVE UTILIZATION CONCEPTS

O B j E c T I v E S

Aim of the Fraunhofer Innovation Cluster "Bioenergy" is to supply

mobile or decentralized technologies for the generation of econo-

mically transportable and storable intermediate products. These

intermediate products from lignocellulose and/or wet biomass, as

well as from other related residues, are converted into energy-

dense and storage-stable intermediate products in preparation

for their subsequent processing in energy business and chemical

industry.

Thereby, following goals should be accomplished:

• Conversion into hydrocarbon-rich solid and liquid intermediate

products for the resource sector and energy supply

• Use of logistic channels for intermediate products, e. g.

co-incineration in heating plants or admixture in crude oil

refineries

• Higher efficiency and value creation, particularly in agricultural

production

HTC char Pyrolysis oil Pyrolysis coke

T E c H N O l O g I c A l A P P R O A c H E S

Within the Cluster following technological approaches are being

elaborated, which should finally conclude in corresponding tech-

nologies to the point of a demonstrator (see project scheme):

• Biomass pretreatment

Concept design and development of technologies on basis

of pretreatment, and dewatering and separation of valu-

able fractions for decentral fabrication of economically

transportable and storable intermediate products from wet

biomass. These come into consideration as e. g. combustible

material, soil conditioner or as ingredient for pyrolysis and

carbonization (see figure). Previously separated valuable

fractions can used e. g. in the chemical industry or feed

industry.

• Processing of stalk-type biomass

Thermochemical conversion of stalk-type biomass into py-

rolysis oil and into pyrolysis coke by ablative flash-pyrolysis,

both worth storaging and transporting. Beside the power

and heat generation, after treatment, pyrolysis oils are also

applicable as raw material for fuels and chemicals.

• Processing of local/regional accruing biogenic residues

Static, small-scaled conversion of residues from agricultural

production or food industry into carbonic intermediate

products, especially for energy business basing on hydro-

thermal carbonization (HTC) as well as torrefaction.

Fraunhofer Innovationscluster Bioenergy – Projektschema ausführlich

carbonized biomass

lignin-rich fraction

pyrolysis oil

pyrolysis coke

Processing of stalk-type biomass and biogenic residues(HTC, torrefaction, pyrolysis, separation of valuable fractions)

valuablefraction

Conditioning intermediate products(purification, upgrading, pelletizing/briquetting)

preheated biomass dried biomass liquid fractionsdisinfected biomass

Biomass pretreatment(thermal pretreatment, dewatering, separation, grinding)

DRY BIOMASS(straw, dung, green waste material,

dried residues)

soil conditioner

combustible material/fuel

crude oil refinery

chemical raw material

feed nutrients

WET BIOMASS (gras, liquid manure, digestates, residues from food industry, bio and green waste)

bioenergy

bioenergyRuhr

Rhein

FRAUNHOFER INNOVATION CLUSTER

F R A U N H O F E R I N S T I T U T E F O R E N V I R O N M E N TA L ,

S A F E T Y, A N D E N E R G Y T E C H N O L O G Y U M S I C H T

www.umsicht.fraunhofer.de/en/divisions/processes/projects.html

FUNDING NOTE

The Fraunhofer Innovation Cluster "Bioenergy" is funded by the Ministry for Innovati-on, Science and Research of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia from sources of the European Foundation for Regional Development (EFRE) and from sources of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.

FUNDED BY

C o n t a c t

Dr.-Ing. Esther Stahl

Central offi ce "bioenergy"

Group Manager Biomass and Residue Utilization

Phone +49 208 8598-1158

esther.stahl@umsicht.fraunhofer.de SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY WITH RAW MATERIALS AND ENERGY

P A R T N E R S I N V O L V E D I N F R A U N H O F E R

I N N O V A T I O N C L U S T E R "B I O E N E R G Y "

Agriculture / Biomass supply

Food industry

(Agricultural machine and) mechanical

engineering

Energy industry

Waste management industry

Research / Innovation

Publicly owned undertaking

M A P O F P A R T N E R S I N N R W

Pyrolysis oil Biochar Chemistry raw material

Fraunhofer-Innovation Clusters are framed and performed within the "Pact for Research and Innovation" of the Fraunhofer-Society. They network existing structures – research facilities, industrial partners and universities – and promote a seminal research area, regio-nally dedicated. The Fraunhofer-Innovation Cluster "Bioenergy" in Oberhausen accumula-tes the competences of industry, science and the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia to draft novel conceptions of use for biomass.

Solid fuels

AIRTECH Stickstoff GmbH

Aquattro GmbH

CLAAS KGaA mbH

EnergyAgency.NRW

ENTRADE Energiesysteme AG

Franz-Josef Kipp GmbH & Co. KG

Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT

GEA Westfalia Separator Group

GRONEMEYER & BANCK GmbH & Co. KG

Kreis Weseler Abfallgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG

Loick Bioenergie GmbH

:metabolon/Bergischer Abfall-wirtschaftsverband

Pfeifer & Langen GmbH & Co. KG

PROWICO Proteingewinnungs GmbH

Phytowelt GreenTechnologies GmbH

Ruhr University Bochum, Chair of Process Engineering for Transport Processes

STEAG GmbH

Thünen-Institut für Holzforschung (TI-HF)

Wirtschaftsbetrieb Hagen WBH