The Expanding the resource base for energy and products project aims to increase knowledge about resources that can be used for bioenergy production or material recovery.
The project focuses on the use of underutilized, low‑value residual streams in processes such as combustion, pyrolysis, and gasification. These residual streams could be more efficiently valorized, for example through the application of novel fractionation and sorting technologies, to generate higher‑value products as well as increased resource and energy recovery, thereby enabling a more sustainable utilization of residual streams.
Focus lays on using underutilized, low-value residual streams for processes, such as combustion, pyrolysis and gasification, etc. The residual streams could be more efficiently valorized by e.g. using novel fractioning and sorting technologies to generate higher-value products as well as higher resource- and energy recovery towards a more sustainable application of the residual streams.
Participating Tasks
Five of the eleven IEA Bioenergy tasks are participating in this inter-task project:
- Task 32 Biomass Combustion
Duration
01/01/2026 – 31/12/2027
Leadership
Mar Edo Giménez (Task 36, RISE- Research Institutes of Sweden)
Objective
The project has four main objectives:
- Mapping residual streams available that currently are underutilized and potentially could be used as feedstock for bioenergy and material recovery
- Formulate guidelines on how to evaluate the valorization of residual streams as feedstock for energy and products
- Compile case studies where resources identified in the mapping have been (successfully) used as feedstock for bioenergy
- Analyze the consequences of fuel selection strategies in industrial boilers & fast pyrolysis
Work packages
Description of the work packages and respective deliverables (text in yellow):
Publications
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