Details of Grant

EPSRC Reference:

GR/S28204/01

Title:

SUPERGEN - Biomass, Biofuels and energy crops consortium

Principal Investigator:

Other Investigators:

Oakey, Professor J	Simms, Professor NJ	Christian, Dr D
Donnison, Professor IS	Shield, Dr I	Swithenbank, Professor J
Bridgwater, Professor AV	Williams, Professor P	McMullan, Professor J
Sharifi, Professor VN	Generalis, Dr S	Brammer, Professor JG
Tanaka, Dr K	Morris, Professor P	Shackley, Dr S
Pourkashanian, Professor M	Titiloye, Dr JO	Williams, Professor A

Researcher Co-Investigators:

Project Partners:

Alstom Group	B9 Energy Ltd	Biomass Engineering
Doosan Power Systems (Mitsui Babcock)	E.ON E&P UK Ltd	Fluent Europe Ltd
Genencor International Inc	Madison Filters	Ormrod Diesels
Rural Generation Ltd	RWE (Innogy/Npower)	Wellman Process Engineering

Department:

Fuel and Energy

Organisation:

University of Leeds

Scheme:

Standard Research (Pre-FEC)

Starts:

01 June 2003

Ends:

31 May 2007

Value (£):

2,897,087

EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:

Bioenergy	Combustion
Urban & Land Management

EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:

Environment	Energy
Transport Systems and Vehicles

Related Grants:

Panel History:

Summary on Grant Application Form

The proposed programme of work is divided into six work packages (WPs):WP1: Process, techno-economic and environmental analysis; WP2: Fuel specification and matching to conversion processes; WP3: Thermal reactor modelling; WP4: Minimisation of engineering risk; WP5: Co-processing biomass and biofuels; WP6: Biomass and bioenergy network.The research addresses a number of challenges in the utilisation of biomass. These include: (a) Feedstock options: - availability, preparation, identification and meeting criteria of fuel quality. (b) Conversion and energy generation: - Improved biomass to energy processes attained via a number of strategies including: matching biofuels to power generation systems, modelling, and integration of fuel conversion processes with end use. (c) Economics and market issues: techno-economic optimisation of integrated systems; evaluation of the economic sustainable production of biomass; identification of economically attractive biomass conversion routes for the UK situation. (d) Integration and connection: - making the links between fuel production, preparation, conversion, and end use. (e) Environmental Issues: - can biomass utilisation be sustainable?

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