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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,

Biogas lab
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.

Fuel cell lab
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

Gasification lab
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.

 

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Visit at CEDER in Soria, Spain

On the 13th of July, Jörgen Held, BEIC, visited the Center for the Development of Renewable Energies (CEDER), a Spanish research centre in Soria belonging to CIEMAT.

CEDER specializes in the applied research, development and promotion of renewable energies. The RD&D activities focus on the energy use of biomass throughout its value chain, studies related to wind energy in low power wind turbines and the search for practical solutions for the integration of renewable generation sources and storage systems in smart microgrids. CEDER has a team of professionals with high technical qualifications and demonstrative technological infrastructures, which also provide technical support to national and international energy companies and institutions.

CEDER hosts several pilot scale and demonstration plants, including two pilot scale gasifiers. One bubbling fluidised bed and one circulating fluidised bed gasifier.

CEDER
From the left: Jose Maria Sanchez-Hervas, Head of Combustion and Gasification Division, CIEMAT, Jörgen Held, CEO BEIC, Raquel Ramos, Director of CEDER, in front of the pilot scale bubbling fluidised bed gasifier.
Photo: Luis Esteban, Head of Biomass Unit, CEDER.

CIEMAT is working on anaerobic digestion and has a strong interest in syngas fermentation considering the well-developed Spanish forest sector (feedstock supply), the extensive gas grid (distribution) and many gas customers (end users). CIEMAT is part of the SynFerm Technology Transfer and Dissemination Multiplier group and Dr. Raquel Iglesias will be invited to talk at the SynFerm conference organised in collaboration with REGATEC 2024, 15-16 May in Lund, Sweden.