BEST
Bioenergy and
Sustainable Technologies
Projects
IEA SHC Task 68: Efficient Solar District Heating Systems
The TCP SHC has set itself the goal that solar energy technologies will cover more than 50 % of the heating and cooling demand for buildings in 2050 and thus contribute significantly to reduce CO2 emissions worldwide.
In this context, the SHC Task...
Assessment of the influencing and reduction potential on off-gassing of pellets during storage to increase storage security
Wood pellets may release various component during transportation and storage. Thus, relatively high concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), various volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and methane (CH4) may occur in pellet storages....
ÖKO-OPT-AKTIV - Optimised control and operating behaviour of thermally activated buildings in future urban districts
Starting point / motivation
In the efforts to make urban energy systems more environmentally friendly and at the same time more cost-efficient, a large savings potential has been demonstrated in recent decades through improved building envelopes and...
ÖKO-OPT-QUART Economically optimized control and operating behavior of complex energy networks of future city districts
Starting point/motivation
In future city districts, the focus on a reasonable combination of different, where possible renewable energy sources is increasing. However, the resulting energy networks are getting more and more complex. This increase of...
Barrel / day Fischer Tropsch
The objective of the COMET project "Barrel / day Fischer Tropsch" is the planning, construction and operation of a plant for the production of Fischer-Tropsch (FT) products (diesel, kerosene and biowaxes from wood) in the scale of one barrel per day of...
Basic Research Smart- and Microgrids: Innovative, Self-learning System Control for Decentralized Energy Resources & Microgrids
BEST – Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH is a technological pioneer in the field of control systems for bioenergy technologies. This basic research project provides the foundation for innovative self-learning control concepts of microgrids...
Bi-directional integration of buildings with heat production capacities in heating grids 2+
Heat grids are an excellent way to integrate renewable energy sources into a universal heat supply system and thus reduce CO2 emissions and other environmental impacts. At the moment, however, many locally available heat sources remain unused. In...
Bio-Electric Syngas Technology for the Production of Biomass Derived BioFuels and Platform Chemicals
Recent findings indicate that electro-fermentation provides an efficient tool to influence bacterial metabolism and product formation. The project BesTECH aims at developing an electrically enhanced bioconversion process to establish a biotechnological...
BioControl4Power: Optimal operation of biogas plants and biomass CHP at the intersection of electricity markets and heat consumers
The Austrian Renewable Energy Expansion Act (Erneuerbaren-Ausbau-Gesetz) envisages a significant increase in the share of renewable energy fed into the power grid by 2030. Much of the energy required for this will be provided by volatile sources. To...
BRISK II – Free use of our infrastructure
Funded by the EU, the project BRISK II aims to improve the success and usage of biomass and biogenic residues. One of the main activities consists of providing access to bio-chemical and thermo-chemical conversion plants in Europe for researchers...
BSAIO - BOOSTING SUSTAINABILITY WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND OPTIMIZATION
Establishing a sustainable energy and economic system and dealing with the opportunities and risks of digitalization are among the greatest challenges currently facing our society. New digital technologies and methods from the fields of big data,...
Bulletin "Biobased Future" to support Networking Activities between Stakeholders of a Biobased Industry in Austria
BIOENERGY 2020+ publishes the bulletin Biobased Future, which is financed by the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT). The bulletin focuses on R&D activities and results, national and international networking activities as...
Clean Energy for Tourism - BEST's Know-how for Increasing Energy Efficiency in Winter Tourism
The "Clean Energy for Tourism" project, which will run until the end of 2022, aims to find solutions to the challenges of energy supply and the energy grid in Austrian winter tourism. The project is funded by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund of the...
DekarbWP: Decarbonization of heating and cooling supply by means of absorption heat pump systems
In order to provide heating and cooling in the most sustainable and CO2-neutral way possible, the trend is emerging to combine different technologies such as renewable heat generators, absorption heat pumping plants (comprising heat pumps and chillers)...
Development of micro-cogeneration with thermogenerators as a modular integrated system for biomass boilers
For the operation of pellet heating systems (boilers, furnaces) electrical energy for fuel transportation, water pumping, control, and induced draft fan is required which is usually taken from the grid. Thus, the heat generation is dependent from the...
ENERGY BARGE - Building a Green Energy and Logistics Belt
The overall objective of ENERGY BARGE is to foster sustainable usage of biomass for energy production in the Danube Region and to increase the share of environmentally friendly biomass-transport on the Danube. It builds on national initiatives existing...
Equality Advanced
BEST has been quite active in terms of equality and can also present some major achievements. The number of female scientists is above sector average, paternity leave and part time is likely to be taken by both male and female coworkers and the...
EvEmBi – Evaluation and reduction of methane emissions from different European biogas plant concepts
The project “EvEmBi – Evaluation and reduction of methane emission from different biogas plant concepts” aims on supporting biogas plant operators to reduce methane emission, where necessary by providing accurate measuring data of methane emissions....
FlexiFuelGasControl
Due to increased efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, the utilization of biomass for energy purposes has gained in importance in the last two decades. In research and development, there has been a strong focus on the gasification of biomass. In this...
FlowBattMonitor: Model-based monitoring of renewable flow batteries
Batteries are a key technology to enable the extensive utilization of renewable energies in the future. Due to their high capacity, redox flow batteries in particular possess a high potential as stationary energy storages to compensate fluctuations...
FT2Chemicals - Upgrading FT Products for Industry
Synopsis:
Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis is capable to convert renewable syngas (CO and H2) to hydrocarbons and thus, provide commodities like high quality diesel fuel, kerosene and basic chemicals. The synthesis of high molecular hydrocarbons...
FT4Industry - FT bio refinery for industrial applications
Synopsis:
In the last 10 years R&D was focused on the utilization of FT products for the production of advanced biofuels. FT diesel and kerosene are high quality biofuels with excellent combustion behaviour, nearly no soot formation during the...
GrateAdvance
Flexibly adjustable grate systems are major prerequisites for combustion systems that can be operated with different types and qualities of biomass fuels, and to ensure low emissions and high operational security regarding slag handling at the same...
Heat-to-fuel
Synopsis:
Heat-to-Fuel is a Horizon 2020 EU-funded project carried out by 14 partners from across Europe that aims to deliver the next generation of biofuel production technologies supporting the decarbonisation of the transportation sector. The...
HPC - Model-based control of absorption heat pumping systems
Absorption heat pumping systems (AHPS, comprising heat pumps and chillers) use thermal instead of mechanical energy as driving power and are therefore considered a promising way to increase the share of renewable energies in the heating and cooling...
IEA AMF Task 63: Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF)
The main objective of the IEA AMF Task: Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) is to identify the main challenges in the introduction of sustainable aviation fuels in order to facilitate future market uptake. Examples of successful deployment and application...
Market survey of energy storage technologies in Austria (MSSP2020)
A research project of the Technikum Wien GmbH, ENFOS e. U., AEE INTEC and BEST GmbH on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology in the period from November 2020 until September 2021.
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MBC-FluBBStGas - Model Based Control of Fluidized Bed Biomass Steam Gasification
Plants based on dual fluidized bed (DFB) gasification are a season- and weather-independent, sustainable and decentralized option to provide electricity, heat and gas. These DFB plants are on the verge of profitability due to high prices for raw...
Microgrid research lab for 100% decentralized energy supply (electricity, heating-, cooling supply): planning and installation of a microgrid as a real development environment and further development of optimization methods
The "Microgrid Lab Wieselburg" investigates the design and operation of microgrid technologies from a techno-economic perspective for real buildings, considering sectoral coupling of electricity and heat. It is the first laboratory in Austria that...
Mixed Alcohols from Biomass Steam Gasification III
In BIOENERGY 2020+ research and development on the synthesis of mixed alcohols is done since 2010. Within the past projects a lab-scale plant was built and operated, where about 1 Nm³/h of synthesis gas was processed. The main investigations were...
MoREIntegrALBiomass - Model-based control and electrostatic precipitator integration for low-emission combustion of alternative biomass fuels
In today's biomass furnaces, problematic biomass fuels such as agricultural fuels (e.g. straw), waste wood, energy grasses as well as residues from the agricultural industry (cores, shells etc.) remain unused in many cases or can only be used in...
MotivA - Motive Analysis regarding the choice of residential energy supply systems with a focus on gender and intersecting aspects
In order to facilitate the energy transition, the civil society should be involved and agree on measures set by policy makers. The European Green Deal and the current National Bioeconomy Strategy aim for decarbonising the energy system. To achieve this...
NextGenGridOpt: Optimizing grid-based energy systems with next-generation methods
Next-generation district heating systems with a high share of renewable and volatile energy sources are highly complex systems whose optimization is challenging.
In the NextGenGridOpt project, a methodological framework for planning, analysing and...
Optimization of Heating, Electricity, and Cooling Services in a Microgrid to Increase the Efficiency and Reliability (OptEnGrid)
The Austrian scientific project „ Optimization of Heating, Electricity, and Cooling Services in a Microgrid to Increase the Efficiency and Reliability“ (OptEnGrid) is based on the work of Dr Michael Stadler at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...
Potential of Thermal Steam Biomass Gasification for the production of Hydrogen, SNG, Electricity and District heat
Steam gasification of biomass offers a great potential for polygeneration concepts, which aim at the generation of various products from a single feedstock. The dual fluidized bed biomass steam gasification of biomass generates a N2 free product with...
Process development for the production of a biobased fertilizer with metered nutrient release
Meat processing companies generate large amounts of waste that require complex and costly treatment based on national and European hygiene regulations. Usually this type of waste is processed in rendering plants (TKV) which require large amounts of...
Reactor optimization by membrane enhanced operation
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ROMEO is a European Research and Innovation Project funded by the European Commission. It is developing a new reactor concept using homogeneous catalysis and membrane technology to carry out chemical synthesis and downstream processing in a single...
REal - The Real Laboratory for Integrated Regional Renewable Energy Systems
In the REal project, a holistic, scalable and user-friendly concept is created. Thereby sector-coupled, municipal energy systems with 100% renewable energy can be implemented, considering all necessary aspects (from planning to operation), reducing...
Recirculation of Algae-process water for saving Resources and reduce Wastewater
In the last years the research on algae cultivation as well as algae production for food and feed additives, cosmetics, pigments and 3rd generation biofuels increased in Europe, and especially in Lower Austria, where five companies have been active in...
Recycling of Nutrients From Agro-Industrial Residues Through the Cultivation of Microalgae as Fish Feed
The Interreg-project ATCZ221 – Algae4Fish aims at the utilization of agro-industrial residues as basis for the production of high quality live food for breeding commercially relevant fish species such as pike perch. The technology for implementing this...
Resource-efficient fuel additives for reducing ash related operational problems in waste wood combustion
Waste wood combustion provides economic advantages compared to the use of virgin biomass fuels but also results in ash related problems such as slagging, fouling and corrosion. Resource-efficient fuel additives such as recycled gypsum provide the...
Revaluation of residues from biogas plants (fermentation residue, sewage sludge) for the production of algae biomass for the feed industry
By anaerobic digestion of organic residuals and wastes high amounts of digestate and sludge arise. The liquid fraction of these sludges is often not used. The recirculation and use of the therein contained nutrients is beneficial to increase the...
Seba Mureck: First Austrian Microgrid for 100% Decentralized Energy Supply
BEST - Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH, will establish parts of the municipality of Mureck as an interconnected energy system capable of intelligently controlling energy production and consumption, thereby becoming energy self-sufficient....
Ship2Fair: Solar Heat for Industrial Process towards Food and Agro Industries commitment in Renewables
SHIP2FAIR (Solar Heat for Industrial Process towards Food and Agro Industries commitment in Renewables) aims to foster the integration of solar heat in industrial processes of the agro–food industry. With this purpose, SHIP2FAIR will develop and...
SmartControl - Standardized and smart control of municipal energy systems
The project goal is a standardized and easy-to-implement procedure for the communication, monitoring and control of decentralized technologies within municipal energy communities. For this purpose, innovative interfaces and self-learning algorithms...
SolSorpDry: Development of a mobile and fossil-free sorption drying plant
Fossil fuels are still frequently used in food production, which is associated with significant emissions of climate-damaging greenhouse gases. One particularly energy-intensive area is the drying of food.
The aim of the SolSorpDry project is to...
The Green Parking Space – Utilization of urban traffic areas for production of biomass
Some traffic and parking areas in the urban environment are only used during limited periods. This is true, for example, for parking spaces in large, peripherally located cinemas, which are usually only occupied to a significant extent in the evening...
ThermaFLEX - Thermal demand and supply as flexible elements of future sustainable energy systems
More flexibility for more renewables in district heating networks - the lead project "ThermaFLEX".
Starting point
In current discussions about the decarbonization of energy supply, many people are not aware that the demand for indoor climate and...
Up2ndUse - Upgrading of waste to secondary raw materials and fuels
The overall objective is the upgrading of forest residues, residues of the wood processing industry and biogenic wastes into secondary raw materials and fuels for material and energetic utilization. In coordination with the project partners following...
User-Centered Smart Control and Planning of Sustainable Microgrids
Climate protection requires a massive reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from existing buildings. Modern digital systems promise more targeted operation and planning of energy systems with strongly fluctuating use and large shares of volatile energy...
VergRestWert
Thermal gasification in dual fluidized bed systems is an efficient method to generate electricity and heat from biomass and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. High operating costs due to the utilization of the catalytically active bed material olivine...
Waste2Value
Construction and start-up of a new pilot plant in Vienna, Austria, which will demonstrate the conversion of waste materials into eco-friendly and carbon-neutral fuels. At the site of a hazardous waste incineration plant in the urban area of Vienna,...