UK – Waste bioenergy and hydrogen projects awarded £5m.
The Government has awarded £5m of funding for the scoping and development stage of its Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) programme.
Winners work in the feedstock pre-processing, gasification or novel biohydrogen technologies sectors.
There were two awards for feedstock projects. Biowise is proposing to produce a biogenic feedstock source for hydrogen gasifiers by processing waste compost but overcoming problems associated with compost oversize.
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The University of Hull will seek uses for bio-refinery waste, which it described as “an untapped supply of hydrogen, a future net-zero fuel”.
Eight gasification projects gained funding. These included the North East Waste Wood Hydrogen Demonstrator, led by Northumbria University, which seeks to determine the viability of demonstration plant that generates biohydrogen out of waste wood gasification.
There were a further winners for novel biohydrogen technologies. Among these were Eco Dark Fermentation, led by Alps Ecoscience. This will try to produce hydrogen from waste using dark fermentation to deliver a sustainable, low-carbon energy supply.
The Government said this novel technology would enable anaerobic digestion plants to produce hydrogen in conjunction with biogas production. The process enables economies of production in heat and electricity, and greater waste-to-energy conversion through biological process efficiency.
Production of biohydrogen from waste biomass is led by Catagen, and seeks to produce renewable biohydrogen and bio-CO2 via an energy-efficient approach.
Hydrogen from organic waste with an integrated biological-thermal-electrochemical process is a project led by the University of Aberdeen, aiming to obtain hydrogen from the organic matter present in waste using a combination of biological, thermal and electrochemical processes.
The University of Leeds’ H2-Boost aims to produce biohydrogen for the transport sector using organic waste as feedstock.
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Waste bioenergy and hydrogen projects awarded £5m, August 4, 2022
