In this final report the results after four years of the project are reported. This report provides an overview of finalised experiments which include results on product testing from the five demo plants (Acqua & Sole (Italy), Am-Power (Belgium), Groot Zevert Vergisting (the Netherlands), BENAS (Germany) and Waterleau NewEnergy (Belgium), and three...
This report covers information on the technical, environmental and economic performance of five full scale demonstration plants. The demonstration plants are all anaerobic digesters (AD) that invested in NRR technologies and are located in different EU member states (the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Italy). The demonstration plants are pioneers a...
The Arabian Peninsula, due to its climate, availability of non-arable land, seawater, and carbon dioxide, is one of the best global locations for commercial cultivation of algae and cyanobacteria. This work focused on the screening of multiple locally isolated strains for their capability to thrive under industrially relevant conditions of elevated...
Groot Zevert Vergisting (GZV), located in Beltrum, the Netherlands, started its biogas production in 2004. The plant has a processing capacity of 135 kilotonnes (kt) of feedstock through mesophilic digestion per year. In 2019, GZV started with the production of biobased fertilisers and purified water from digestate. The aim is to offer a sustainabl...
Since 2011, unprecedented beaching events of Sargassum seaweed have caused major environmental, health and economic problems in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, northern Brazil and the western coast of Africa. Not only are Sargassum influxes threatening already fragile and often endangered coastal ecosystems, such as coral reefs, mangroves and seagra...
This report describes the modelling approach, input data, scenarios of biobased fertiliser application, and the results and conclusions in terms of environmental impacts. For all demonstration plants scenarios were worked out in terms of application rates of digestate and/or biobased fertilisers, and the associated applied nutrients and heavy metal...
De groene sector (beheerders van bos-, natuur en groen) en beleidsmakers hebben behoefte aan een op wetenschappelijke feiten gebaseerde onderbouwing van het gebruik van biomassa (tak- en tophout) als duurzame grondstof voor energie. Er is een casus van recreatiebedrijf Leisurelands, die beoogt deze biomassa kleinschalig te converteren naar watersto...
This thesis examines the global governance of sustainable biofuels, with a specific focus on Brazil and the European Union (EU) as major players in the production, trade and use of first-generation liquid biofuels. Biofuels are solid, liquid or gas fuels derived from biomass sources such as starch, sugars, fat, wood, or waste. So-called first gener...
