Author: Gunnar
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Webinar 6: Catalysis development for hydrothermal gasification
Our most recent Webinar, with David Baudouin from Paul-Scherrer Institute is now online. Hydrothermal gasification is used within the BIOCTANE project, to process the dark fermentation residues for a full utilization of wet organic residues. In order to achieve this goal, PSI is developing catalysts which are selective towards the production of hydrogen but also…
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Executive Board Meeting in Narbonne
We have just completed our bi-annual Executive Board Meeting 🎉 Recent advances and developments within each work package were reviewed and further steps decided upon âś…. Furthermore, we had the opportunity to visit the laboratories of INRAE Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l’Environnement and to engage in many social activities in the beautiful region of Narbonne.…
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Webinar 5: Catalysts to convert acetoin and alcohols into jet fuels
From now on, you can watch our latest webinar recording on our channel. On June 6th at 16:00 CEST our guests were Patricia Pizarro, Full Professor in Chemical Engineering at Rey Juan Carlos University and Senior Associate Researcher at IMDEA Energy Institute, and Gabriel Morales, Full Professor in Chemical Engineering, Rey Juan Carlos University.
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Webinar 4: Biobased molecules from waste
From now on, you can watch the recording of the webinar on Biobased molecules from waste. In the BIOCTANE process, Eric Trably, Research Director at INRAE – Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory carries out a dark fermentation step of the organic waste used as feedstock. This biomass will be fermented by a mixed microbial consortium under slightly…
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Webinar 3: Biofilms on active substrata
Our most recent webinar about Biofilms on active substrate is now available online! Prof. Johannes Gescher from the Lab of Technical Microbiology at TUHH presented a comprehensive overview of their activities and an overview about the current state of research:
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Webinar 2: Conversion of acetoin and 2,3-BDO
The recording of the last BIOCTANE webinar is online! Adriana Souza de Oliveira (IMDEA Energy) and Gabriel Morales (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) presented their results on the conversion of acetoin and 2,3-BDO to jet fuels:
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Webinar 1: Process & Project
The recording of our first webinar is online 🎉 In case you weren’t able to join live or would like to re-watch it, it is available on our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHg5_IREtOg
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Executive and Governing Board Meetings in Hamburg
For the Executive and Governing Board meeting, our project partner from IMDEA Energy, INRAE Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l’Environnement, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Paul Scherrer Institut PSI and Hamburg University of Technology were hosted by Hamburg University of Technology. Thanks a lot for hosting our meetings and showing us a bit of Hamburg!
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Advisory Board constituted
The BIOCTANE Advisory Board constitutional meeting took place on September 21st. After a round of introductions, the scope of the project and next steps were discussed. Based on the fruitful discussions, we are very much looking forward to the next meetings:
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Bioctane joins Conference for Sustainable Aviation
Recently, Marta Paniagua Martin, Senior University Lecturer at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos held a presentation about “Sustainable fuels in transport: Advances and challenges from the point of view of Research”. You can find the slides here.