✨ Honored to be expecting
many high-ranking guests ✨
We eagerly await the opening plenary session on 22nd January in Graz, where Federal Minister Norbert Totschnig, State Secretary Elisabeth Zehetner and Regional Minister Simone Schmiedtbauer will talk about the challenges of energy and climate policy in political practice.
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✨ Austria is very pleased to host the CEBC2026 for the 8th time and
welcomes its participants to the beautiful city of Graz! ✨
Below, Dina Bacovsky (BEST), Chair of the Scientific Committee, shares her insights on CEBC2026.
Conference Programme 👉🏻https://lnkd.in/dVZfs7gi
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⏰⏰⏰⏰ In 8 weeks …
… the city of Graz will become the hotspot of bioenergy by hosting the 8th Central European Biomass Conference #CEBC2026.
Conference programme 👉
https://www.cebc.at/8_mitteleuropaeische_biomassekonferenz_cebc_2026/programm.html
From January 21st to 23rd, 2026, the leading event of the bioenergy industry, will present the latest political, technological and economic developments.
Register now 👉
https://www.cebc.at/8_mitteleuropaeische_biomassekonferenz_cebc_2026/anmeldung.html
Wastewater has emerged as a potential bioenergy resource. Previous research has largely focused on assessing individual bioenergy supply pathways and products, limiting system boundaries to recovery processes, or considering only a limited range of environmental impacts. This study evaluated the life cycle environmental impacts of three forms of bioenergy products (i.e., bioelectricity, bioheat, and biohydrogen) recovered through 27 pathways from sewage sludges at wastewater treatment facilities and benchmarked them against their conventional energy counterparts across 311 pathways. The results indicate that bioelectricity and bioheat have substantial lower global warming and fossil resource scarcity impacts than conventional energy commodities. All bioenergy products involve trade-offs in specific environmental categories, such as toxicity, eutrophication, and mineral resource depletion. This study further compared the environmental impacts of both intermediate and final forms of bioenergy products─bioelectricity, bioheat, biomethane, and biohydrogen. Bioelectricity had the highest impacts per unit energy due to exergy-based allocation, while bioheat had the lowest. With similar environmental impacts and no end-use greenhouse gas emissions, biohydrogen could be preferable to biomethane. Accounting for the multifunctional nature of anaerobic digestion, beyond bioenergy production, can further improve the environmental performance of most bioenergy pathways.
Wastewater has emerged as a potential bioenergy resource. Previous research has largely focused on assessing individual bioenergy supply pathways and products, limiting system boundaries to recovery processes, or considering only a limited range of environmental impacts. This study evaluated the life cycle environmental impacts of three forms of bioenergy products (i.e., bioelectricity, bioheat, and biohydrogen) recovered through 27 pathways from sewage sludges at wastewater treatment facilities and benchmarked them against their conventional energy counterparts across 311 pathways. The results indicate that bioelectricity and bioheat have substantial lower global warming and fossil resource scarcity impacts than conventional energy commodities. All bioenergy products involve trade-offs in specific environmental categories, such as toxicity, eutrophication, and mineral resource depletion. This study further compared the environmental impacts of both intermediate and final forms of bioenergy products─bioelectricity, bioheat, biomethane, and biohydrogen. Bioelectricity had the highest impacts per unit energy due to exergy-based allocation, while bioheat had the lowest. With similar environmental impacts and no end-use greenhouse gas emissions, biohydrogen could be preferable to biomethane. Accounting for the multifunctional nature of anaerobic digestion, beyond bioenergy production, can further improve the environmental performance of most bioenergy pathways.
Increased wood use is unlikely to help in reaching climate goals within this century. This means that the role of wood-based materials and energy needs to be reconsidered in the upcoming EU bioeconomy strategy write Jari Niemi and Sampo Soimakallio.
The cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum) offers an ecologically advantageous alternative to silage maize for bioenergy production. This is the conclusion of a multi-year comparative study conducted by researchers at the University of Bayreuth. Their findings have now been published in the journal GCB Bioenergy.
#Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (#BECCS) is a technology that captures and stores carbon dioxide (CO2) from biomass to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
New Pretreatment Methods Improve Biofuel Production from Oilcane
Researchers from the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI), along with collaborators from other Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs), have made significant advancements in developing industrial-scale biofuel production methods using oilcane, a variety of sugarcane with high o... [More info]
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