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Aiming for cooperations in Bioenergy business opportunities between Finnish forest, energy and technology sectors
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C L E E N . F I F I B I C . F I
BEST Program Manager:Kaisu Leppänen, M.Sc. (Chem.)Phone: +358 44 288 [email protected]/o Spinverse OyInnopoli 2, Tekniikantie 1402150 ESPOO, FINLAND
BEST Factsheet October 2013
Sustainable BioenergySolutions for Tomorrow
BEST Research areas
• Future bioenergy scenarios and strategies
• Understanding new markets
• Biomass availability, price and quality
• Flexible and cost-e� cient solutions for multi-fuel biomass supply chains
• Analysis and design of bioenergy systems
• Industrial bioenergy concepts
• Sustainability, health & safety issues
BEST is a joint research program of Cluster for energy and environment CLEEN and Finnish Bioeconomy Cluster FIBIC aiming at cooperation across traditional business area boundaries. The overall target of BEST is to build a solid common understanding of the future bioenergy business opportunities as well as the necessary know-how and capabilities for seizing them.
Bioenergy is a key element of bioeconomy, which plays a central role in the shift towards truly sustainable society. Bioenergy can also be considered one essential element in the future sustainable energy system. Based on these drivers, the BEST program builds on the world-class strengths of the Finnish forest, energy and technology sectors. Projecting from their competencies towards future bioenergy business, there are three main issues and objectives which form the core of the program:
Kaisu Leppänen, M.Sc. (Chem.)
Innopoli 2, Tekniikantie 14
CHP generation is competitive in Finland
Established methods allow effi cient harvesting, supply and processing of forest biomass; other biomasses are used only in minor quantities
The business environment is relatively stable for now, but several political and sustainability issues might change in the near future
CHP and other energy concepts can be successfully exported to new markets
New solutions (including multi-fuel biomass processing terminals) enable the fl exible and cost effi cient supply of diff erent fuels
Finnish companies share a common understanding of and capabilities of adapting to the future bioenergy business environment
Current status Future status
The concepts and technological solutions developed in this program will provide the participating companies tools for increasing their competitiveness and creating new business opportunities. The built common intelligence will facilitate the program partners to cooperate as a bioenergy ecosystem, and as one central outcome, a roadmap for successful Finnish bioenergy business will be created. This is expected to create global opportunities for exporting complete concepts or technological solutions as well as to enhance the capability of Finnish actors to infl uence the discussion on e.g. the sustainability and regulation of bioenergy.
The BEST consortium is a joint research program managed by CLEEN Ltd, the strategic research centre for energy and environment and FIBIC Ltd, the strategic research centre for bioeconomy.
About CLEEN and FIBIC
Industrial partners 50.3 %Fortum 21%, Metso Power 10%, UPM-Kymmene 9%, Metsäliitto Cooperative 7%,Sen� t 6%, Measurepolis Development 5%,Metso Automation 5%, Stora Enso 5%, Arbonaut 4%, Andritz 4%, Pohjolan Voima 4%, Indufor 3%, Metsähallitus 3%, ÅF-Consult 2%,Ekokem 2%, City of Helsinki 2%, Gasum 2%,Neste Oil 2%, MW Power 2%, Inray 1%, Mantsinen Group 1%
BEST program volume16 M€ for 2013 – 2016
BEST consortium members
WORK PACKAGES
WP 1 – Bioenergy scenarios and strategies in global and local scales
The objective is to understand the strategic opportunities of bioenergy in the future operating environment. The work includes examining the techno- and socio-economic conditions required to foster the economically, socially and environmentally sustainable use of biomass for energy in its various forms, and the risks and uncertainties related to this. The outcome will be a shared view which facilitates program partners to cooperate as a bioenergy business ecosystem and a roadmap for successful Finnish bioenergy business.
WP 2 – Radical improvement of bioenergy supply chains
The main task in WP2 is to develop new biomass supply concepts where enhanced logistical operations, terminal processing and sophisticated measurement technologies better fulfi ll all stakeholders’ needs and create a competitive advantage. A central part of the concepts is the design and modeling of (virtual) biomass terminals or hubs, which convert various collected biomass feedstocks into higher value fuels and combine the required data of e.g. quality and biomass volumes. In addition, biomass availability and the use of Finnish competence in biomass sourcing in analyzing the challenges and opportunities in the utilization of Indian biomass resources will be studied.
WP 3 – Advanced integrated concepts and new markets
WP3 takes a deeper look at future energy concepts and new industrial concepts. In the fi rst two-year period of the program, the main objectives are to assess the role of bioenergy and biomaterials in future cities and to design bioenergy and biomaterial recycling systems for selected future city cases. In addition to Finland and Europe, Indian cities will be used as case studies of new markets. WP3 also addresses the design of new industrial bioenergy concepts such as integrating biomass conversion and processing units to power plants.
WP 4 – Enhanced business opportunities through securing sustainability
WP4 will begin by identifying the key sustainability indicators and methodologies from the point of view of diff erent bioenergy actors, and continue by testing and developing them in case studies to identify and create solutions for overcoming sustainability challenges in bioenergy chains. The output will be a framework for assessing the sustainability of bioenergy solutions for various purposes. The framework will include a systematic summary of approaches bioenergy actors can apply in developing both defensive approaches that ensure the acceptability of diff erent bioenergy chains but also proactive strategies that use sustainability as a source for competitive advantage.
Research Partners 49.7%VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland 17%,University of Eastern Finland 16%, Lappeenranta University of Technology 13%,Finnish Forest Research Institute 11%, Tampere University of Technology 11%, University of Oulu 10%, MTT Agrifood Research Finland 4%, Aalto University 4%,University of Helsinki 3%, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health 3%, Finnish Environmental Institute 3%, Finnish Geodetic Institute 2%, European Forest Institute 1%
Bioenergy systems and concepts & technological solutions
Policies, strategies, business environment
BEST research themes
WP 0 Management
WP 2 Radical improvement of bioenergy supply chains
WP 3 Advanced integrated concepts and new markets
WP 1Bioenergy scenarios and strategies in global and local scales
WP 4Enhanced business opportunities through securing sustainability
BEST Factsheet October 2013
C L E E N . F I F I B I C . F I