On the 1st of August 2024, Jörgen Held visited Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).
The Chair of Energy Process Engineering, Prof. Jürgen Karl and his co-workers conduct research related to among others biomass gasification, syngas cleaning, tar reforming, and biological and catalytical methanation.
From left: Thomas Trabold, Jakob Müller and Daniel Koch, FAU, in front of a reactor for microbial research.
Photo: Jörgen Held
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SynFerm visits EnergyLab
On the 24th of July Jörgen Held visited EnergyLab in Vigo, Spain.
Gerardo Rodríguez Vázquez, Innovation and Markets Director gave an overview of the EnergyLab activities, such as dark fermentation, hydrogen production, distribution and utilisation, biological methanation, syngas fermentation, thermal gasification, gas cleaning and purification followed by a highly appreciated tour through the different laboratories,
From left: Gerardo Rodríguez Vázquez, Innovation and Markets Director, Elena Olaya, Senior Researcher Biomethane and Sonia Pascual, European projects unit and manager of the HYDEA project.
Photo: Jörgen Held
Elena showed the counter-current trickle bed reactor for syngas fermentation as well as reactors for hydrogen production through dark fermentation of organic waste.
Joaquín Grassi, Senior Researcher Hydrogen and SOEC electrolysis shows a fuel cell and highlights some of the associated R&D activities.
Photo: Gerardo Rodríguez Vázquez
Xandre Costas, Junior Researcher gasification, shows the fluidised bed gasifier and the subsequent catalytic tar reforming reactor.
Photo: Gerardo Rodríguez Vázquez
The activities include among others the use of pulverized seashells for sorption enhanced gasification and co-gasification of sewage sludge with different types of biomasses.
It was concluded that there is a strong common interest between the SynFerm project and other projects where BEIC is involved and the activities at EnergyLab.
Technical meeting 1 November
On the 1st of November Cortus, Q Power and BEIC had a technical meeting regarding the installation of the Q Power pilot plant.
By changing the location for the pilot plant, will be possible to extend the pilot testing period without interferring with the BIOMETHAVERSE project that will run simultaneously.
Both projects are related to biological methanation of syngas from the WoodRoll® gasifier.
The ground work and piping will be done during November and December. The arrival of the Q Power pilot plant is now scheduled for the beginning of Janaury.
Visit at Q Power Oy
On the 8th of June, Scandinavian Biogas Fuels and BEIC visited Q Power Oy in Pargas, Finland.
Q Power Oy is a technology provider of biological methanation and responsible for the lab scale tests and providing a mobile pilot plant to be installed at the Cortus’ site in Höganäs, within the SynFerm project.
From left: Jörgen Held, BEIC, Ragnar Stare, Scandinavian Biogas Fuels and Marko Niskanen, Q Power Oy in front of the mobile pilot plant.
Photo: Anni Alitalo, Q Power Oy