Contact details for the Bio4Energy researchers may be accessed by clicking on the respective platform banners below.  

Bio4Energy Feedstock

Forest growth has been seen as a northern resource as it is plentiful in several Scandinavian countries. On the Bio4Energy platform for feedstock research, scientists attempt to understand what trees are made of and, where appropriate, to modify their characteristics so that trees can be designed for use for a specific purpose, such as for making biofuels, "green" chemicals or bio-based materials. Photo used with permission.
The research in Bio4Energy Feedstock aims at:

• Increasing the quantity and quality of plant biomass sourced from forests and;
• Developing efficient processes for conversion of biomass to valuable products and energy.

Platform leader is Senior Lecturer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., taking over from Professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 1 January 2016. Both researchers are affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and carry out much of their work at the Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC). 

Said Niittylä of the platform Bio4Energy Feedstock: "The overarching goal of the feedstock platform is to increase biomass accumulation per hectare and make the biomass better suited for biorefinery processing. The Bio4Energy Feedstock platform investigates the molecular controls of quantity and quality of wood, the environmental and management practices that govern these, develops analytical tools for wood characterisation and carries out field trials with transgenic trees. We can provide expertise in cellular and organismal growth control, biomass allocation to harvestable parts of the trees, characterisation of wood and fiber properties, quantitative tree genetics and establishment of tree plantations".

The following researchers are part of Bio4Energy Feedstock:

UmU/UPSC, Umeå, Sweden	Phone	Office location
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SLU/UPSC, Umeå, Sweden
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Bio4Energy Wood Pre-processing

Scientists on the research platform Bio4Energy Wood Pre-processing design technology to provide well-defined, fractionated biomass for further upgrading. Photo used with permission.

Bio4Energy Wood Pre-processing is a leader in the area of research on:

• Transformation of forest biomass and organic waste to industrial feedstock;
• Torrefaction or roasting as a method to pre-treat woody materials for use in the production of heat, electricity or fuel;
• Spectroscopic on-line analysis for efficient characterisation and quality-assurance of bio-based industrial streams and;
• Use of by-products of municipal operations/utilities (flue gas and waste water) in pilot-scale algae production.

Platform leader as of 1 January 2018 is associate professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., taking over from associate professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Both are affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Umeå, Sweden.

The following researchers are part of Bio4Energy Wood Pre-processing: 

Department of Forest Biomaterials and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, SE	Phone	Office location
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Energy Technology and Thermal Process Chemistry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies

Researchers on the Bio4Energy platform for Thermochemical Conversion Technologies develop thermal technologies based on gasification and combustion of forest-sourced biomass or organic waste. Photo used with permission.
Researchers on the platform Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies have set out to develop a complete set of experimentally validated sub-models that can be combined in different ways to predict all technologically important processes for thermal conversion of biomass, including reactions with containment materials. On the side of technology development, gasification, combustion and pyrolysis are the cheif methods studied.

Platform leader is the Umeå University (UmU) associate professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., taking over the reins of the platform from professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 1 January 2016. Both are part of the UmU Department of Applied Physics and Electronics.

 

Thermal Conversion of Biomass in Bio4Energy from Bio4Energy on Vimeo. Video by Bio4Energy, 26 June 2014.

The following researchers are part of the Bio4Energy research and development platform for Thermochemical Conversion Technologies:

Thermochemical Energy Conversion Laboratory, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden	Phone
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	+46 90 786 5445	TEC-Lab, Bio4Energy Programme Manager
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	+46 90 786 6801	UmU: KBC KB7C8, Linnaeus Rd 6
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RISE Bioeconomy/Energy Technology Center, Piteå, Sweden (Research and development consultants)
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Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden
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Bio4Energy Biopolymers and Biochemical Conversion Technologies

On the platform for Biopolymers and Biochemical Conversion Technologies researchers develop biocatalysts and bioprocesses, drawing on microbial conversion of forest-sourced biomass, notably. Photo used with permission.

On the platform for Bio4Energy Biopolymers and Biochemical Conversion Technologies scientists develop new biocatalysts and bio-based processes designed for efficient conversion of lignocellulose into commodities such as advanced biofuels, "green" chemicals and bio-based materials. Since 1 January 2016, platform researchers also:

• Use tree cell-wall polymers as a raw material for producing electrictiy, heat, biofuel and value-added 'co-products' using biorefinery methods and;
• Create and develop biocomposites using nanotechnology.

Platform leader is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., professor at Umeå University.

The following researchers are part of Bio4Energy Biopolymers and Biochemical Conversion Technologies:

Umeå University (UmU), Umeå, Sweden	Phone	Office location
UmU Chemistry
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Thomas Gillgren	+46 90 786 5467	UmU: Chemistry B, 5th fl., 10 Linnaeus Rd; Billerud-Korsnäs Billerud-Korsnäs  - Bio4Energy Industrial Network
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Madhavi Latha Gandla
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	+46 72 280 5504	Chemistry B, 5th fl., 10 Linnaeus Rd, SE-90187
Björn Alriksson	+46 10 516 6753	RISE Processum, Hörneborgsv. 10, Domsjö Development Area
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	+46 10 516 6754	RISE Processum, Hörneborgsv. 10, Domsjö Development Area
Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Luleå, SE
LTU Biochemical Process Engineering
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Video courtesy of Luleå University of Technology/viavasterbotten.

Bio4Energy Chemical Catalysis and Separation Technologies

Scientists on the platform Bio4Energy Chemical Catalysis and Separation Technologies conduct world-leading research on integrated catalysis and separation processes for use in lignocellulose-based biorefinery. The research is highly multidisciplinary and focuses on the areas catalysis, materials development and integrated separation processes.

Platform leader is professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of the Luleå University of Technology (LTU).

The following reserachers are part of the platform Bio4Energy Chemical Catalysis and Separation Technologies:

LTU, Luleå, Sweden	Phone	Office location
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., professor	+46 92 049 2105	Sustainable Process Engineering, C166
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	+46 92 049 1294	Sustainable Process Engineering, C147
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	+46 92 049 2495	Sustainable Process Engineering, C133
Danil Korelskiy		External Placement - Bio4Energy Industrial Network
Mattias Grahn		External Placement - Bio4Energy Industrial Network
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Alexander Shishkin
Edgar Cardenas
Mojtaba Nobandegani
Claudia Raquel Quineche Minaya
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Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	+46 90 786 5151	KBC B5-07-07, Linnaeus Rd 10
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	+46 90 786 5467	KBC Chemistry, 6th fl., Linnaeus Rd 10
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Duc-Ha Phan-Vu
Van Minh Dinh
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Bio4Energy System Analysis and Bioeconomy

The Bio4Energy platform for System Analysis and Bioeconomy conducts research in the following areas of activity:

• Use of process integration methods to optimise plant energy and material flows;

 

• Techno-economic assessments;

 

• Application of life-cycle analysis (LCA) for environmental assessments;

 

• Policy design and implementation, regulatory issues, market dynamics and innovation diffusion and adaptation, as well as;

 

• Spatial modelling of cost-effective production plant localisations. (This implies efforts to minimise the cost of the entire system being studied, taking into account costs and revenues for feedstock outtake, terminal handling and transportation, production plants, transportation and delivery of final products, sales of co-products and economic policy instruments.)

 

Platform leader is professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., taking over from his department colleague professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of the Luleå University of Technology in June 2019.

The following researchers are part of the Bio4Energy research and development platform for System Analysis and Bioeconomy:

Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Luleå, Sweden	Phone	Office location
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Elisabeth Wetterlund, Bio4Energy  Deputy Programme Manager	+46 92 049 1056	LTU: Energy Sciences; Bio4Energy f3 Centre Coordinator
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Umeå University (UmU), Umeå, Sweden
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Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden
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Bio4Energy Environment and Nutrient Recycling

Scientists on the platform Bio4Energy Environment and Nutrient Recycling perform research with the aim to render waste products or surplus energy from biorefinery useful for other processes, or to check the efficiency and sustainability of products or processes over their life cycle. Photo published with permission.
Researchers on the platform Bio4Energy Environment and Nutrient Recycling have set out to provide the checks and balances in the work of the overall research programme to create environmentally-sound and sustainable biorefinery processes. These should be made to operate efficiently and turn out energy-efficient products, as well as cause or produce no or only a minimum of environmental pollutants and undesirable by-products or waste.

General objectives are:

• To contribute to the development of environmentally-sound and sustainable forest-based biochemical and thermochemical industrial processes;

• That the ecological footprint in terms of emissions of substances that are hazardous to soil, water and atmosphere should be minimised and;

• That complete biomass use loops should be created.

Specific goals include:

• The recovery and purification of nutrients from waste streams. Deeper understanding of the impact of recycling various nutrient/ash mineral assemblies on soil chemistry and plant availability;
• The generation of value-added products from waste streams: Adaptation of an algae satellite loop to a pulp-and-paper process environment;
• Understanding the role of particulate matter from flue gas for the formation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in thermal conversion processes;
• The minimisation of gaseous and particulate inorganic and organic hazardous emissions from thermal conversion processes and;
• The revision of existing and future biochemical and thermochemical conversion processes to identify potential environmentally harmful impacts and incomplete use loops.

Platform leaders is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., associate professor, taking over the leadership from Dan Boström as of 1 September 2017. Both are affiliated with Umeå University (UmU).

The following researchers are part of the platform Bio4Energy Environment and Nutrient Recycling:

UmU, Umeå, Sweden
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- Véronica Benavente
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Christoffer Boman, Bio4Energy Programme Manager
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Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences/ Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå, Sweden
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Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden
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Theses Defence

Bio4Energy Licentiate Presentation: Experimental Studies of Ash Transformation Processes in Thermochemical Conversion, 16 June 2020

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. will present his licentiate thesis Experimental studies of ash transformation processes in thermochemical conversion of P-rich biomass and sludge. His main supervisor has been Luleå University of Technology (LTU) professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.PI on the R&D platform Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies. Co-supervisors have been Nils Skoglund, research fellow at Umeå University (UmU) and LTU professor Anders Lagerkvist.

Discussion leader will be professor Rainer Backman, professor at UmU and PI on Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies.

Time and place: 10:00 a.m. at Room E632, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden.

Due to restrictions imposed in the wake of the spread of Covid-19, the seminar will be offered by remote access. To participate via video link, please mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (click the name to access Gustav's e-mail address).

All welcome.
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Bio4Energy Licentiate Presentation: Ash Transformation in Single-pellet Combustion and Gasification of Biomass, 12 June 2020

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. will present his licentiate thesis Ash transformation in single-pellet combustion and gasification of biomass with special focus on phosphorus. His main supervisor has been Luleå University of Technology (LTU) professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., PI on the R&D platform Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies.

Co-supervisors have been Christoffer Boman, Bio4Energy Environment and Nutrient Recycling, who is an associate professor at Umeå University (UmU); as well as Kentaro Umeki, Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies and professor at LTU.

Discussion leader will be professor Dan Boström, professor at UmU and PI on Bio4Energy Environment and Nutrient Recycling.

Time and place: 10:00 a.m. in Room E632 at Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden.

Due to restrictions imposed in the wake of the spread of Covid-19, the seminar will be offered by remote access. To participate via video link, please register via this link, https://ltu-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50tf-usrj0jEtTtbtmR1vwziAJZ2F0FV0DU

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Particle-fluid Interactions under Heterogeneous Reactions, 19 March 2020

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.will defend her thesis Particle-fluid interactions under heterogeneous reactions. Her main supervisor has been Luleå University of Technology (LTU) professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., PI on the R&D platform Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies.

Opponent will be docent Henrik Ström of the Division of Fluid Mechanics at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Time and place: 10:00 a.m. at Room E632, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

All welcome.

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Application of fuel design to mitigate ash related problems during combustion of biomass, 11 December 2019

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. will defend his thesis Application of fuel design to mitigate ash related problems during combustion of biomass. His main supervisor has been Umeå University (UmU) researcher Christoffer Boman, PI on Bio4Energy Environment and Nutrient Recycling and with work related also to Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies.

The name and contact details of the opponent have not been disclosed to Bio4Energy.

Time and place: 9 a.m. at the Natural Sciences' Building of UmU, Room N460.

All welcome.

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Tailoring residue-derived carbon materials for the removal of wastewater contaminants, 24 May 2019

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.will defend her thesis Tailoring residue-derived carbon materials for the removal of wastewater contaminants: adsorption and surface properties. Her main supervisor has been Umeå University (UmU) researcher This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., PI on Bio4Energy Environment and Nutrient Recycling.

Opponent will be Doctor Capucine Dupont, Department of Environmental Engineering and Water Technology, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands.

Time and place: 9 a.m. at the KBC Building of UmU, Small Lecture Hall, KB.E3.01 ( Lilla Hörsalen).

All welcome.

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Experimental Study of Alkalinisation of Cellulose in Industrial Relevant Conditions, Umeå, Sweden, 14 December 2018

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.will defend her thesis Experimental study of alkalinisation of cellulose in industrial relevant conditions. Her supervisor has been Umeå University (UmU) researcher This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., PI on Bio4Energy Biopolymers and Biochemical Conversion Technologies.

Opponent will be professor Ulf Germgård, Department of Chemical Engineering, Karlstad University, Sweden.

Time and place: 10 a.m. at the KBC Building of UmU, Small Lecture Hall, KB.E3.01 ( Lilla Hörsalen).

All welcome.

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Alkali-enhanced Gasification of Biomass: Laboratory-scale Experimental Studies, Luleå, Sweden, 14 December 2018

PhD student Albert Bach Oller will defend his thesis Alkali-enhanced Gasification of Biomass: Laboratory-scale Experimental Studies. His supervisor has been Luleå University of Technology (LTU) researcher This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., PI on Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies.

Opponent will be professor Viktor Scherer, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany.

Time and place: 10 a.m. at the E Building of the LTU, room E231.

All welcome.

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Biocarbon for Fossil Coal Replacement, Luleå, Sweden, 11 December 2018

PhD student Aekjuthon Phounglamcheik will defend his thesis Biocarbon for Fossil Coal Replacement. His supervisor has been Luleå University of Technology (LTU) researcher This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., PI on Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies.

Opponent will be Dr. Ondřej Mašek, Biochar Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, UK .

Time and place: 11 a.m. at the E Building of the LTU, room E231.

All welcome.

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Refractory Corrosion in Biomass Gasification, Umeå, Sweden, 9 November 2018

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.will defend his thesis Refractory Corrosion in Biomass Gasification. His supervisor has been Umeå University (UmU) professsor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., PI on Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies.

Opponent will be Ragnhild Aune, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

Time and place: From 1 p.m. at the Natural Sciences' Building of UmU, Room N360.

All welcome.

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Entrained-flow Studies on Biomass Fuel Powder Conversion and Ash Formation, Umeå, Sweden, 26 October 2018

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.will defend his thesis Entrained flow studies on biomass fuel powder conversion and ash formation. His supervisor has been Umeå University (UmU) researcher This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., platform leader for Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies.

Opponent will be professor Kevin Whitty, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Utah, Utah, U.S.A.

Time and place: 10 a.m. at the Natural Sciences' Building of UmU, Room N430.

All welcome.

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Real-time Breath Gas Analysis of Carbon Monoxide, Umeå, Sweden, 19 October 2018

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.will defend his thesis Real-time breath gas analysis of carbon monoxide – Laser-based detection and pulmonary gas exchange modeling. His supervisor has been Umeå University (UmU) researcher This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., PI on Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies.

Opponent will be Jonathan D. Beauchamp, Department of Sensory Analytics at the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, Germany.

Time and place: From 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the KBC Building of UmU, Small Lecture Hall, KB.E3.01 ( Lilla Hörsalen).

All welcome.

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Economics of Timber and Bioenergy Production and Forest Sequestration, Umeå, Sweden, 12 October 2018

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.will defend his thesis Economics of Timber and Bioenergy Production and Forest Sequestration.

Opponent will be professor Brent Sohngen, Department of Agricultural Environmental and Development Economics, Ohio State University, U.S.A.

Time and place: 1 p.m. at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) at Umeå, Skogmarksgränd, Umeå. Room SLU Björken.

All welcome.

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Development of Biocatalytic Processes for Selective Antioxidant Production, Luleå, Sweden, 12 June 2018

PhD student Io Antonoupoulo will defend her thesis Development of biocatalytic processes for selective antioxidant production. Her supervisors have been This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., both PIs on Bio4Energy Biopolymers and Biochemical Conversion Technologies and professors at the Luleå University of Technology (LTU), as well as Professor Mats Sandgren of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Umeå.

Opponent will be Professor Anne S. Meyer, Center for BioProcess Engineering, Technical University of Denmark.

Time and place: 10 a.m. at the LTU, room C305,

All welcome.

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Fuel Conversion and Ash Formation Interactions, Umeå, Sweden, 1 June 2018

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. will defend her thesis Fuel conversion and ash formation interactions - A thermochemical study on lignocellulosic biomass. Her supervisor has been This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., platform leader, Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies.

Opponent will be Doctor Maria Zevenhoven, Johan Gadolin Process Chemistry Centre, Åbo Academy University, Finland.

Time and place: 10 a.m. at Umeå University, Carl Kempe Lecture Hall.

All welcome.

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Co-Firing Complex Biomass in a CFB Boiler, Umeå, Sweden, 16 March 2018  

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. will defend his thesis Co-Firing Complex Biomass in a CFB Boiler – Ash Transformation, Corrosion Control and Materials Selection. His supervisors have been Dan Boström and Rainer Backman, both PIs in Bio4Energy and professors at Umeå University.

Opponent will be Lars-Erik Åmand, Högskolan i Borås.

Time and place: 1 p.m. at Umeå University, Natural Sciences' Building, Room N460.

All welcome.

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Recalcitrance of Wood to Biochemical Conversion, Umeå, Sweden, 16 March 2018

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. will defend her work entitled Recalcitrance of Wood to Biochemical Conversion: Feedstock Properties, Pretreatment, Saccharification and Fermentability. Her main supervisor has been This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., head of the R&D platform Bio4Energy Biopolymers and Biochemical Conversion Technolgies and a professor at Umeå University.

Opponent will be professor Brett Pletschke, Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Rhodes University, South Africa.

Time and place: 10 a.m. at Lilla Hörsalen ("Small Lecture Hall"), KB.E3.01, KBC Building, Umeå University.

All welcome.

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Eleonora Borén and student colleague Jonathan Fagerström, both Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies. Video screenshot by Bio4Energy, archives.

Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Off-gassing from thermally treated lignocellulosic biomass, Umeå, Sweden, 8 December 2017

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. will defend her work entitled Energy technology with a focus on thermal process chemistry: Off-gassing from thermally treated lignocellulosic biomass.

Her main supervisor has been This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., head of the R&D platform Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technolgies and an associate professor at Umeå University. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Bio4Energy Wood Pre-processing and associate professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, has seconded Broström as assistant supervisor.

Opponent will be Capucine Dupont, Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratory of Pretreatment of Bioresources, Grenoble, France.

Time and place: 9 a.m. at Lilla Hörsalen ("Small Lecture Hall"), KB.E3.01, KBC Building, Umeå University.

All welcome.

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Processing and properties of nanocomposites, Luelå, Sweden, 15 September 2017

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.will defend her work entitled Processing and properties of nanocomposites based on PLA, chitin, and cellulose.

Her main supervisor has been This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., who is a PI on the R&D platform Bio4Energy Biopolymers and Biochemical Conversion Technolgies and a professor at the Luleå University of Technology (LTU).

Opponent will be Jyrki Vuorinen, professor at Tampere University of Technology, Finland.

Time and place: 10 a.m. in room E632, LTU.

All welcome.

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Particle emissions from residential wood and biodiesel combustion, Umeå, Sweden, 14 December 2016

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. will be defending his thesis Particle emissions from residential wood and biodiesel combustion.

His main supervisor has been This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., who is a PI on the R&D platform Bio4Energy Environment and Nutrient Recycling and an associate professor at Umeå University (UmU).

Opponent will be Michael Strand, proffessor at Linneaus University, Sweden.

Time and place: 1 p.m. in room N460, UmU Natural Science Building.

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Mar Edo (right) and PhD student colleague Qiuju Gao. Photo by Bio4Energy.

Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Mixed fuels composed of household waste, waste wood, Umeå, Sweden, 2 December 2016

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. will be defending her thesis Mixed fuels composed of household waste and waste wood - Characterisation, combustion behaviour and potential emissions.

Her main supervisor has been This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., who is a PI on the R&D platform Bio4Energy Environment and Nutrient Recycling and an associate professor at Umeå University (UmU).

Opponent will be doctor Jonas Dahl, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden.

Time and place: 9 a.m. at UmU, small lecture hall of the Chemical-biological Building.

All welcome.

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Three-dimensional Structured Carbon Foam: Synthesis and Applications, Umeå, Sweden, 14 November 2016

PhD student Tung Ngoc Pham will be defending his thesis Three-dimensional Structured Carbon Foam: Synthesis and Applications.

His supervisor has been Jyri-Pekka Mikkola, who is a PI on the R&D platform Bio4Energy Chemical Catalysis and Separation Technologies and a professor at Umeå University (UmU).

Opponent will be professor Dmitry Yu. Murzin of the Laboratory of Industrial Chemistry and Reaction Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, Turku/Åbo, Finland.

Time and place: 1 p.m. at UmU, small lecture hall of the Chemical-biological Building.

All welcome.

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Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Pretreatment and Enzymatic Saccharification of Lignocellulose, Umeå, Sweden, 28 October 2016

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. will be defending her thesis Pretreatment and enzymatic saccharification of lignocellulose: formation and effects of pseudolignin.

Her supervisor has been This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., who leads the R&D platform Bio4Energy Biopolymers and Biochemical Conversion Technologies and who is a professor at Umeå University (UmU).

Opponent will be associate professor Wilfred Vermerris, Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

Time and place: 1 p.m. at UmU, large lecture hall of the Chemical-biological Building.

All welcome.

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Thesis Defence: Processing of Continuous Fibers Based on Nanocellulose, Luleå, Sweden, 9 June 2016

PdD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of the Luleå University of Technology (LTU) will be defending his thesis Processing of continuous fibers based on nanocellulose: Influence of dispersion and orientation on mechanical properties.

His supervisors at the LTU have been professors This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Aji Mathew who are members of the research and development platform Bio4Energy Biopolymers and Biochemical Conversion Technologies.

Opponent will be professor Stephen Eichhorn, University of Exeter, United Kingdom.

Time and place: 10 a.m. at the LTU, room E632.

All welcome.

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Thesis Defence: Characterisation and Densification of Carbonised Lignocellulosic Biomass, Umeå, Sweden, 9 June 2016

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) at Umeå will be defending his thesis Characterisation of Carbonised Lignocellulosic Biomass.

His supervisor at the SLU has been associate professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. who is a PI on the research and development platform Bio4Energy Wood Pre-processing.

Opponent will be Jonas Dahl, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden.

Time and place: 1 p.m. at the SLU, room Björken.

All welcome.

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Thesis Defence: Process Integration to Increase Woody Biomass Utilisation for Energy Purposes, Luleå, Sweden, 9 June 2016

PdD student Sennai Mesfun of the Luleå University of Technology (LTU) will be defending his thesis Process integration to increase woody biomass utilisation for energy purposes.

His supervisors at the LTU have been professor Andrea Toffolo of the research and development platform Bio4Energy System Analysis and Bioeconomy.

Opponent will be associate professor Francesco Fantozzi, Department of Engineering & Biomass Research Center, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.

Time and place: 2 p.m. at the LTU, room E632.

All welcome.

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Thesis Defence: On the dioxin formation in thermochemical conversion of biomass - Levels, distributions and fingerprints, Umeå, Sweden, 29 April 2016

PdD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.of Umeå University (UmU) will be defending her thesis On the dioxin formation in thermochemical conversion of biomass - Levels, distribution and fingerprints.

Her advisor at UmU has been senior lecturer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. who is a member of the research and development platform Bio4Energy Environment and Nutrient Recycling.

Opponent will be Bogdan Dlugogorski, dean of the School of Engineering at Murdoch University in Australia.

Time and place: 10 a.m. at the KBC Building of Umeå University, in room KB3A9.

All welcome.

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Thesis Defence: Exploring the Relevance of Uncertainty in the Life-cycle Assessment of Forest Products, Umeå, Sweden, 22 April 2016

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., of Umeå University and the SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, will be defending her thesis Exploring the Relevance of Uncertainty in the Life-cycle Assessment of Forest Products.

Her main advisor has been professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. who is a member of the research and development platform Bio4Energy System Analysis and Bioeconomy.

Oppenent will be José Potting, professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Time and place: 10 a.m. at the Chemical-biological Centre of Umeå University, room KB3B1.

All welcome.

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Thesis Defence: Xylem cells cooperate in the control of lignification and cell death during plant vascular development, Umeå, Sweden, 4 March 2016

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of Umeå University (UmU) will be defending his thesis Xylem cells cooperate in the control of lignification and cell death during plant vascular development.

His advisor at UmU has been professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. who is a member of the research and development platform Bio4Energy Feedstock.

Opponent will be Andrew Groover, Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, California, U.S.A.

Time and place: 1 p.m. at the KBC Building of Umeå University, in room KB3A9.

All welcome.

    

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'Bio4Energy 2' Kick-off Event, Skellefteå, Sweden, 15-16 February 2016

As the name suggest, this miniconference will officially kick off the second programme period Bio4Energy, starting 1 January 2016. It is open to all the Bio4Energy researchers and their PhD students, but registration is required by e-mail to Anna Strom.

There will be brief presentations of Bio4Energy's new or updated Research and Development Platforms, including their new leaders; as well as research presentations on hot topics in research on biorefinery based on wood or organic waste. Bio4Energy is also very happy to a poster-pitch presentation session for its PhD student and postdoctoral researchers.

There will be time for socialising--and a few surprises revealed. So, if you are a Bio4Energy researcher, do not miss out!

Bio4Energy contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Bio4Energy Communications

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Swedish Centre for Biomass Gasification (SFC) Programme Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1-3 February 2016

Time and Place: 11 a.m. 1 February - 5 p.m. 3 February, Arken Hotel & Art Garden Spa

f3 Centre-SFC Seminar: Full speed towards a fossil free transport sector?, Gothenburg, Sweden, 3 February 2016

- Perspectives on gasification based biofuels and the role of pilot and demonstration plants

Time and place: 8.30 a.m. – 5.00 p.m., Arken Hotel Art Garden Spa, Nordatlanten 100, 41834 Gothenburg, Sweden

Programme:

8:30 Registration and coffee

09:00 Welcome! - f3 and SFC: A short introduction and presentation of current activities Johanna Mossberg, director f3 and Joakim Lundgren, director Swedish Centre for Biomass Gasification (SFC)

09:20 Systems perspective on gasification based biofuels

- Methane as vehicle fuel – Identifying system solutions with superior performance, Pål Börjesson, Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, Lund University

- Cost-efficient plant localisation?, Elisabeth Wetterlund, Energy Sciences, Luleå University of Technology

Commercialising the bio-based economy

- Policy for successful demonstrations? -Reflections from a technological research perspective, Henrik Thunman, Energy and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology

- Pilot and Demonstration Plants in Innovation Policy and Management, Patrik Söderholm, Business Administration, Luleå University of Technology

International inspiration

- Advanced biofuels strategy to 2030 for the Finnish bioeconomy, Nils-Olov Nylund, VTT

- The role of demonstration plants – a Canadian perspective, Don Smith, BioFuelNet, Canada

12:15 Lunch

13:15-17:00 Study visits: Limited number of participants, registration mandatory, members of f3 and SFC have priority

- Preem Göteborg – Production of renewable diesel and gasoline based on tall oil and other residues
- Göteborg Energi GoBiGas – Gasification of forest residues for production of biogas

18:30 Dinner at Chalmerska Huset: Only for members of the f3 Centre, SFC or participants in projects within the joint research program "Förnybara drivmedel och system"

Registration for participants invited by f3: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/full-speed-towards-a-fossil-free-transport-sector-registration-19294304785

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PhD Thesis Defence: Sustainability Measures in Quicklime and Cement Clinker Production, Umeå, Sweden, 29 January 2016

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.of Umeå University (UmU) will be defending his thesis Sustainability Measures in Quicklime and Cement Clinker Production.

His advisor at UmU has been professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. who is a member of the Bio4Energy research and development platform for Thermal Conversion Technologies.

Opponent will be Flemming Jappe Frandsen, associate professor at the Technical University of Denmark.

Time and place: 1:15 p.m. at room N420, UmU.

All welcome.



           

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PhD Thesis Defence: Preparation and Characterisation of Nanocellulose Films and Coatings from Industrial Bio-residues, Luleå, Sweden, 6 November 2015

PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.of the Luleå University of Technology (LTU) will be defending her thesis Preparation and Characterisation of Nanocallulose Films and Coatings from Industrial Bio-residues.

Her advisor at the LTU has been professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. who is a member of the Bio4Energy Pretreatment and Fractionation Platform.

Opponent will be professor emeritus Per Stenius of Aalto University in Helsingfors, Finland and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

Time and place: LTU, House E, room 246, from 10 a.m.

All welcome.


            


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Bio4Energy Researchers' Meeting, Umeå, Sweden, 20-21 October 2015

Bio4Energy PIs and group leaders will meet at the Umeå University Arts' Campus, Sliperiet, from lunch 20 October to lunch 21 October. The subjects of discussion will be a possible second operational period for the research environment of five years from 2016 and its funding.

Bio4Energy contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Bio4Energy Communications

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PhD Thesis Defence: Cellular Aspects of Lignin Biosynthesis in Xylem Vessels of Zinnia and Arabidopsis, Umeå, Sweden, 16 October 2015

Umeå University PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. will be defending his thesis Cellular Aspects of Lignin Biosynthesis in Xylem Vessels of Zinnia and Arabidopsis. His advisor at Umeå University has been the associate professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Opponent will be professor Simon Hawkins, Department of Functional and Structural Glycobiology, University of Lille, France.

Time and place: Umeå University, KB3A9 Small Lecture Hall, from 1.30 p.m. All welcome.

 

Seminar: Genetic engineering of lignin using a bacterial gene, Umeå, Sweden, 24 September 2015

Professor Shinya Kajita (TUAT, Japan) will be coming to Umeå to give a
seminar on his latest work strategies to modulate lignin in tree biomass. His breakthrough strategy has been to use genes isolated from bacteria living off the lignin residues from pulp mill stream into poplar wood to modify in vivo the wood structure.

Bio4Energy researchers who would like to discuss with Prof. Kajita on Thursday 24th September are asked to contact Edouard Pesquet to set a meeting time.

When: 24 September 2015 at 2 p.m.

Where: KBC Building, Umeå University, room KB3A9 ("Lilla hörsalen")

Bio4Energy contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Bio4Energy Feedstock Platform

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Advanced Biofuels Conference, Stockholm Arlanda, Sweden, 16-17 September 2015

Bio4Energy is an official partner to this conference which full name is International Advanced Biofuels Conference – For Aviation, Maritime and Land Transport. Held for the first time, and at a venue close to Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, it will bring together academia and industrial representatives (from companies and constellations such as Abengoa, Avinor, Boeing, Bioenergy 2020+, Nestle, Preem, SCA, SkyNRG, Swedavia, Wärtsilä and UNICA) with relevant politicians and policy makers to discuss the future of biofuels, with a focus on advanced biofuels.

A preliminary conference programme and registration is available through the conference homepage.



Bio4Energy contacts are This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Leader of the Bio4Energy Biochemical Platform and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Bio4Energy Communications.

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SFC Summer School 2015 on Biomass Gasification, Gothenburg, Sweden, 17-21 August

2015 theme: Materials issues at high temperature biomass conversion processes

Organiser: Swedish Centre of Biomass Gasification (SFC)                

Contacts: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Phone SFC Secretariat: +46 920 49 1221

Chalmers: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., +46 31 772 1191, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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14th International Congress on Combustion by-products and Their Health Effects, PIC2015, Umeå, Sweden, 14-17 June 2015

Registration deadline: 14 May 2015

• Registration and Abstract Submission Opens 7 January 2015
• Abstract Submission Deadline 15 February 2015 - Extended to 9 March 2015
• Early Bird Registration Deadline 31 March 2015

PIC 2015 Theme: Origin, fate and health effects of combustion-related air pollutants in the coming era of bio-based energy sources

Sessions:

1. New fuels – new residual products
2. Sources and emission control
3. Dioxins and furans
4. New and emerging POPs
5. Flame retardants
6. Soot and organic aerosols: Formation and characterisation
7. Metals and ash chemistry in aerosols
8. Health effects of solid biomass combustion
9. Health effects of car exhaust – focus on biofuels
10. New approaches for assessing health effects of air pollution related to combustion
11. Waste treatment
12. Advanced diagnostics and measurement methods

Plenary speakers (all confirmed):

• William Suk, Director Superfund Research Program, NIEHS
• Bogdan Dlugogorski, Murdoch University, Australia
• Angela Violi, University of Michigan, U.S.A.
• John Dyke, University of Southampton, UK

Bio4Energy contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., PhD, Organising Chair; Phone: +46 90 786 7622; Local congress homepage 

Scientific programme—highlights:

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PhD researcher Martin Strandberg is part of the Department of Applied Physics and Electronics at Umeå University. Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: From torrefaction to gasification - pilot scale studies for upgrading of biomass, Umeå, Sweden, 10 June 2015

Umeå University PhD student Martin Strandberg (formerly Nordwaeger) will be defending his thesis From torrefaction to gasification: pilot scale studies for upgrading of biomass.

His advisor at Umeå University has been professor Anders Nordin who is a member of the Bio4Energy Pretreatment and Fractionation Platform.

Opponent will be Jaap Kiel, professor at Technische Universiteit in Delft, the Netherlands.

Time and place: Umeå University, Natural Sciences' Building, room N450, from 1 p.m.

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Bio4Energy PhD student Jonathan Fagerström does research to check particulate emissions from different biomass conversion methods. He notably investigates thermal conversion methods, such as gasification and combustion. Bio4Energy Thesis Defence: Fuel engineering to deal with fine particle emissions and slag formation, Umeå, Sweden, 25 May 2015

Umeå University PhD student This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. will be defending his thesis Fine particle emissions and slag formation in fixed-bed biomass combustion - aspects of fuel engineering.

Advisor at Umeå University is the associate professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., member of the Bio4Energy Environmental Platform.

Opponent will be Bengt-Johan Skrifvars, associate professor at Åbo Akademi in Finland.

Time and place: 25 May 2015 from 1 p.m. at Umeå University, KBC Building KB3A9.

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International Conference on Renewable Gas Technology 2015, REGATEC 2015, Barcelona, Spain, 7-8 May 2015  

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Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting 2015, UREM 2015, Umeå, Sweden, 25-27 March 2015

The Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting—an annual international scientific seminar with a focus is on the latest trends in renewable energy research—2015 is said to have a "Bio4Energy profile". Two Bio4Energy researchers are at the helm of its organisation and part of the organising committee. Other programmes at Umeå University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences supporting the event are BioImprove, Trees and Crops for the Future, Solar Fuels and the Artificial Leaf Project.

UREM 2015 thematic focal areas are:

• Bioeconomy;
• Advanced biofuels;
• Thermal and biochemical conversion technologies and;
• Natural and artificial photosynthesis.

Important dates

8 February - Last day for submitting abstracts

16 March - Last day of registration

Conference programme

25 March

Opening of the conference: Hans Lindberg, City of Umeå

Opening talk: Professor Emeritus Thomas B. Johansson

Sessions:

1. Renewable feedstock and advanced biomass fuels
2. Natural photosynthesis

26 March

Sessions:

• System analysis and bioeconomy
• Biochemical conversion technologies
• Thermochemical conversion technologies

27 March

• Chemical catalysis
• Artificial photosynthesis

Closing talk: Professor Pierre Joliot
 

Confirmed speakers

• Wim Vermaas, Arizona State University, U.S.A.
• Elisabet Romero, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Leonardo Guidoni, University of L'Aquila, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
• Antonio Bonomi, Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory, Brazil
• Lee Lynd, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, Hanover, U.S.A.
• Alberto Gómez-Barea, University of Seville, Spain
• Daniel Lindberg, Åbo Academy University, Finland
• Ivelina Zaharieva, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• Marc Robert, Université de Paris Sept - Denis Diderot, Paris, France
• Leif Hammarström, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Pierre Joliot, Institut de Biologie Physico-chimique, Paris, France
• Thomas B. Johansson, University of Lund, Sweden and lead author for the Swedish government Investigation on a Fossil-fuel Free Transport Fleet in Sweden by 2030

Registration for UREM 2015 is available here.

Bio4Energy contacts for this meeting are Umeå University researchers This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., as well as This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Bio4Energy Communications.

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Symposium: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Energy in the coming 100 years, Luleå, Sweden, 19 March 2015

     Programme

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PhD researcher Fredrik Weiland at the SP Energy Technology Center at Piteå.Thesis Defence: Pressurised entrained-flow gasification of pulverised biomass, Luleå, Sweden, 26 February 2015

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of the Bio4Energy Thermochemical Platform/Bio4Gasification will be defending his PhD thesis Pressurised entrained-flow gasification of pulverised biomass: Experimental characterisation of process performance. His main supervisor has been This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., professor at the Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology. The thesis defence will be opposed by professor Ing Thomas Kolb, Division of Fuel Chemistry and Technology, Engler-Bunte Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.

             

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Carbohydrate Seminar on High-performance Anion-exchange Chromatography, Luleå, Sweden, 22 January 2015

A Carbohydrate Seminar on High-performance Anion-exchange Chromatography with Pulsed Amperometric Detection (HPAE-PAD) for carbohydrate analysis, i.e. the Dionex UHPLC system will be held by Bio4Energy researchers at the Luleå University of Technology.

The seminar will feature Dr. Detlef Jensen from ThermoFisher Scientific and will include a discussion on analytical capabilities (amino acids, water analysis) when using the Corona CAD Charged Aerosol Detector.

All welcome. Lunch and coffee will be provided to attendees who have registered.

Time: 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Place: Luleå University of Technology

Registration: Please register with This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of the LTU by 10 January 2015.

Bio4Energy contact for this seminar is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of the Bio4Energy Biochemical Platform.

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Seminar: Fossil-free Fuels - Markets and Measures, Gothenburg, Sweden 21 January 2015

Time: 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Place: Chalmers University of Technology, Room: Palmstedt Hall

Discussion points:

• Markets for fossil free fuels – technology and market conditions

  Technology and market conditions for fossil free fuel use in road, marine and air transport. Special focus on recent developments in combustion technology and tailor-made biofuels.

• Policy and renewable transportation fuels for global sustainability

  The role of policy, sustainability and transitional barriers for increasing production and use of renewable fuels in transportation. The session includes a discussion on required research and development in a European context.

Organisers: Swedish Knowledge Centre for Renewable Transportation Fuels, Chalmers University of Technology and the Swedish internal Energy Combustion Consortium. Bio4Energy contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., f3 Coordinator in Bio4Energy

Programme: pdf  Fossil_free_fuels_-_Markets_and_measures_Second_Announcement_141204_JL

Registration is available here: http://www.chalmers.se/en/areas-of-advance/energy/events/Pages/f3day.aspx.

Bio4Energy is a member of the Swedish Knowledge Centre for Renewable Transportation Fuels, f3 Centre.

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Seminar: Process Integration in Industry - New Methods and Applications in Processing Industry and Biorefinery, Stockholm, Sweden, 15 January 2015

Bio4Energy PhD student researcher Mikael Thyrel and Stina Jansson, Bio4Energy PI. Photo by Anna Strom. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of the Bio4Energy Pretreatment and Fractionation Platform will be defending his PhD thesis Spectroscopic characterisation of lignocellulosic biomass. His main supervisor has been This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and secondary advisor Rainer Backman, both PIs in Bio4Energy.

          

Thesis Defence: Heterogeneously Catalysed Valorisation of Monoterpenes to High Value-added Chemicals, Umeå,Bio4Energy student researcher Mikhail Gohlets in the laboratory. Photo by courtesy of Mikhail Golets. Sweden, 4 December 2014

• Bio4Energy researchers Christoffer Boman and Linda Pommer at a Bio4Energy Mini Conference in 2012. Photo by Anna Strom.Bio4Energy Research to Be Continued

Day 2 - 21 November

• New Tracks in Bio4Energy

Venue: Skellefteå City Hotell (Skellefteå Stadshotell)

Registration: to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 13 November

Programme: pdf  Bio4Energy-Researchers-Meeting-20-211114_Programme_final

Block I & II:

Seminar content (60-minute presentations with discussions followed by 20 minute break) by researchers on the Bio4Energy Thermochemical Platform:

1. PEBG – From woody biomass to syngas (Fredrik Weiland, Research Engineer/PhD Candidate LTU)
2. Purification and upgrading of gas streams (Linda Sandström, Researcher)
3. Particulate matter formed during biomass conversion (Esbjörn Pettersson, Research Engineer, ETC at Piteå)

Demonstrations/experiments

1. Preparation and characterisation of wood-based powders (Jonas Wennebro, Development Engineer, ETC at Piteå)
2. DTF trials on specific biomass powders including aspects of powder feeding (Roger Molinder, Researcher, ETC at Piteå)
3. Water treatment (Roger Molinder, Researcher, ETC at Piteå)

SP Processum - Bio4Energy Industrial Network Meeting, Umeå, Sweden, 21 October 2014

An Industrial Network Meeting will be held jointly by Bio4Energy and SP Processum, including a tour of the pilot facilities available to the biorefinery cluster at Umeå and an afternoon session of talks designed to bring industry and academy closer together. More information will be posted here closer to the date.

A warm welcome to our partners and friends in industry, the academy and at research institutes!

Sylvia Larsson, Bio4Energy Pretreatment and Fractionation Platform. Photo credit: Sylvia Larsson.Associate Professorship Awards, Umeå, Sweden, 2 October 2014

International conference: Lignin 2014 - Biosynthesis & Utilisation, Umeå, Sweden, 24-28 August

The Lignin 2014 conference aims to strengthen knowledge on the various aspects of lignin biosynthesis and use, from the basic cell biology, molecular biology to pre-treatment of plant biomass and use of the lignin. The conference is organised with the support of the Formas-financed strong research environment BioImprove and Bio4Energy, the Swedish government's Strategic Research Environment in matters of bioenergy and biorefinery, as well as the Umeå Plant Science Centre. Contacts for this conference are This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Bio4Energy Feedstock Platform and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Bio4Energy Communications.

The Lignin 2014 conference will be held at the newly built river-side Arts' Campus of Umeå University, at Umeå, in the city centre of 2014 European Capital of Culture.

The conference will discuss the following topics:The Lignin 2014 Organisation Committee. Photo by Anna Strom©.

1. Cell and developmental biology of lignin;
2. Lignin monomers synthesis and transcriptional regulation;
3. Oxidative polymerisation of lignin;
4. Diversity of natural lignins;
5. Modification of lignin in plants;
6. Lignin characterisation technologies;
7. Lignocellulose processing and extraction of lignin, and;
8. New applications for lignin and lignin derivatives.

New as of 28 July 2014:

• Please find an updated conference programme under this link and;
• The list of confirmed speakers here plus;
• A visionary video about Sliperiet, the Lignin 2014 conference venue The Lignin 2014 venue: Umeå university's newly buit Arts' Campus - Sliperiet. Photo published with permission.situated in downtown Umeå, and a note on its history.

Registration is available here until 8 August 2014.

Submit your abstracthere by 2 August 2014.

Bio4Energy and the UPSC bid participants and speakers a warm welcome to Lignin 2014 and Umeå, the 2014 European Cultural Capital.

The Lignin 2014 Organisation Committee:

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. – Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) and Bio4Energy, Umeå University (UmU), Sweden (General scientific contact)

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.– UPSC and Bio4Energy, UmU, Sweden (Plant Biology)

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.– Bio4Energy, UmU, Sweden (Industrial biotechnology, Chemistry)

Ewa Mellerowicz – UPSC and Bio4Energy, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden

Mattias Hedenström - Department of Chemistry, UmU, Sweden

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. – Bio4Energy, UmU, Sweden (Chemistry, industrial biotechnology)

Sacha Escamez - UPSC and Bio4Energy, SLU, Sweden

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PhD Thesis Defence: Ash Chemistry and Fuel Design, Focusing on Combustion of Phosphorus-rich Biomass, Umeå, Sweden, 5 June 2014

PhD researcher This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of the Bio4Energy Environmental Platform will be defending his thesis Ash Chemistry and Fuel Design, Focusing on Combustion of Phosphorus-rich Biomass.

Starts at: 10:00 a.m.

Venue: Natural Sciences' Building, Room N430

Faculty opponent: Professor Franz Winter, Faculty of Technical Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

PhD Student Supervisor: Professor Dan Boström, Umeå University, Department of Applied Physics and Electronics and Bio4Energy Environmental Platform

All welcome.

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Crash Course in Pulping for PhD Students, Umeå, Sweden, 26-28 May 2014

The Umåe Plant Science Centre (UPSC) will organise this course in connection to the Bio4Energy Graduate School. For more information, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. orThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., both of the Bio4Energy Feedstock Platform.

The purpose of the course is to give biology students an overview and basic understanding of the kraft pulping process in technical, chemical and economical terms. A special focus will be placed on the properties of the raw material and on applying genetic engineering in tree breeding with a view to obtain improvements in the pulping process. The course consists of lectures, discussions and an on-site visit to pulp and paper operations. Students will have to pass a written examination to pass the course.

Contents of the Crash Course in Pulping:

•           Kraft milling as a heavy industry, economical logistics and social importance;
•           Raw materials for chemical pulping;
•           Chemistry of wood polymers;
•           Forestry and material flows;
•           Wood handling, barking, chipping and storage;
•           Chemistry of kraft pulping;
•           Kraft pulping equipment;
•           Closing chemistry and equipment;
•           Bleaching chemistry and equipment and;
•           How can GMO trees improve kraft pulping?.

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Training Courses in Instrumental Analysis for Post-graduate Students, Luleå, Sweden, Various dates

The Division of Chemical Engineering at Luleå University of Technology offer the following training courses:

1. Gas and Liquid Chromatography (5 hp/ECTS credits) – March-April 2014;
2. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (5 hp/ECTS credits) – April-May 2014;
3. Scanning Electron Microscopy (5 hp/ECTS credits) – May 2014;
4. X-ray Diffraction (5 hp/ECTS credits) – September 2014. 

Each course contains 6-7 lectures describing the theory behind each instrument technique, the structure of the instruments, and the types of analyses that can be made using these techniques.

They also include two laboratory exercises where the participants will have a chance to become familiar with the state-of-art equipment available at the Division of Chemical Engineering. Click here for more information regarding the instrumentation.

Each course is concluded by a written examination or student assignment. The grades given are Pass or Fail.

Register by clicking This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.and submitting the following information:

-          Name of the course or courses the participant wishes to register for;

-          Participant name and national identification/social security number;

-          Affiliation (university, department, division);

-          Denomination of participant's research field;

-          Participant's contact information (e-mail and phone number, please).

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Bio4Energy Researchers' Meeting, Umeå, Sweden, 13-14 May 2014 - POSTPONED. Further information will be posted as and when a new date has been set for the meeting

Open Seminar: Skall EU bestämma till vad och hur vår biomassa användas?, Sundsvall, Sweden, 8 May 2014

A one-day seminar held in Swedish and discussing the policy framework reigning in the bioenergy and biorefinery industry in the European Union, with an emphasis on the impact of current policies or the lack thereof on industrial actors in Sweden. The seminar is organised by the Swedish stakeholders Biofuel Region and its Forest Refine project, together with Åkroken Science Park and BioBusiness Arena. Biofuel Region/Forest Refine contact is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., phone: +46 70 352 4494.

Open Seminar: New Products from Forests - Supply Chains and Biorefinery Processes, Umeå Sweden, 9 April 2014 

Time and place: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) at Umeå, P-O Bäckströms Sal

Bio4Energy Graduate School, Second Course: Systems Perspectives on Bioresources, Luleå, Sweden, 18 March - 13 June 2014

Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting, UREM 2014, Umeå, Sweden, 17-19 March 2014

For the sixth time the Chemical-biological Centre at Umeå University will host the Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting, which is in fact an international symposium focusing on the types of renewable energy research which are carried out at Umeå University (UmU) and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), co-hosts also of the Umeå Plant Science Centre.

Bio4Energy Thesis Defence on 'Green' Chemicals, Umeå, Sweden, 14 February 2014

Seminar with guest speaker Jack Saddler, UBC: The potential of biofuels and the need for a biorefinery approach - A forest products perspective, Umeå, Sweden, 28 November 2013

Time and place: 10 a.m. at lecture hall F, Humanist Building, Umeå University

 

Details: Benjamin Bollhörner of the Bio4Energy Feedstock Platform will be defending his thesis on the Significance of hydrolytic enzymes expressed during xylem cell death. Faculty examiner will be Dr Moritz Nowack of the VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology at Ghent University, Belgium. Student supervisor has been Hannele Tuominen of the Bio4Energy Feedstock Platform and the Umeå Plant Science Centre.

 

 

 

 

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Bio4Energy Graduate School: Close of the 2013 Biorefinery Pilot Research course, Piteå, Sweden, 7 November 2013

This course is open to Bio4Energy researchers at the PhD and postdoctoral level. The Biorefinery Pilot Research course is being run by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. A 'grand finale' with student presentations and a joint dinner with stakeholders has been announced. This last leg of the course will be hosted by the B4E partner Energy Technology Centre at Piteå.

Bio4Energy Researchers' Meeting, Luleå, Sweden, 15 October 2013

This meeting will discuss plans and future organisational strategy for Bio4Energy, should it

Bio4Energy contacts are This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.of the

Processum Biorefinery Initiative Ten-year Anniversary, Umeå, Sweden, 9 October 2013

 

Seminar: Biofuels Programme and the Potential of Bioenergy in Africa, Umeå, Sweden, 8 October 2013

This seminar hosted by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of Bio4Energy will meet from 3:15 p.m. at lecture hall 450 of the Umeå University Natural Sciences' Building.  

Guest speaker will be Emile van Zyl, Senior Chair of Energy Research in Biofuels, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

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Seminar: The New Pathway for Formation of PCDD/F in Thermal Processes, Umeå, Sweden, 4 October 2013

The seminar is hosted by Stellan Marklund and will meet from 1:30 p.m. at the "Small Lecture Hall" (Lilla hörsalen) KB3A9 at the Umeå University KBC Building (Chemistry and Biology complex).

Guest lecturer will be Bogdan Dlugogorski from the Priority Research Centre for Energy, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment of the University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia.

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Forest Chemistry Industry-academy Discussion Platform Meeting, Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, 26 August 2013

Called 'Upscaling of biotechnical routes to green chemicals', this seminar which is open to the public will focus on biochemical conversion of forest-sourced biomass to fuels and "green" chemicals and on taking products made in a research laboratory to the demonstration stage. Contact person is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden.

When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 
Where: Premises of Processum Biorefinery Initiative and the Domsjö Fabriker biorefinery, both at Örnsköldsvik.

Preliminary programme:

 

Invited speaker from European or U.S. demonstration site, TBC

• Presentation of Biorefinery Demo Plant and SP-Processum pilot facilities at Örnsköldsvik including tour
• Challenges and opportunities in scale up of biorefinery production
• Financing opportunities
• Group discussions

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Inauguration of Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Forest Biomaterials and Technology Department, Umeå, Sweden, 22 August 2013

When : 09:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Where: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) at Umeå and SLU BTC pilot plant at Röbäcksdalen
Address: BTC, Skogsmarksgränd & Verkstadsgatan 22
Contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., SLU, phone: +46 90 786 8497

Programme:

09:30 Coffee in Åteln, SLU 5th floor
10:00 Information about the new department - P-O Bäckströms sal/Large auditorium, 6th fl.

• Head of department Michael Finell on R&D on plans for R&D at the new department
• Håkan Örberg on the pilot plant BTC and the biomass dryer 
• Scientists from the department on ongoing research projects

12:00 Workshop and lunch (Åteln 5th fl.) with roundtable discussions
14:15 Bus leaves for Röbäcksdalen from entrance at 4th fl.
14:30 Visit of BTC pilot plant and inauguration of new biomass dryer. Coffee will be served.
15:15 Bus ride back to Campus Umeå

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10th Congress on Catalysis Applied to Fine Chemicals, Turku/Åbo, Finland,
16-19 June 2013

Bio4Energy contact is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.of the B4E Catalysis and Separation Platform. 

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Swedish Centre for Biomass Gasification Summer School, Gothenburg and Piteå,
Sweden, 12 - 16 August 2013

Topic: System safety in large scale biorefinery processes

Objective: To give the participants an overview of system safety and methods for risk
assessment, and to train students in the so-called HAZOP method. 

Registration: Please register here by 28 June 2013

Credits: 7.5 ECTS for PhD students at universities connected to the Swedish Centre for Biomass Gasification (SFC).

Information: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., phone:  +46 920 49 12 21

Fee: Members of the SFC (students or employees): 2 000 kr
 
A programme outline is available under this link:
pdf  SFC_Summer_School_2013_on_Risk_Assessment
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Spring Bio4Energy Researchers' Meeting, Umeå, Sweden, 15-16 May 2013
This meeting is open to all Bio4Energy researchers and will partly coincide with the first course of the Bio4Energy Graduate School. Registration is open until 29 April.
 Bio4Energy_Researchers_Meeting_15-16_May_2013_Programme

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Bio4Energy Graduate School First Course: Biorefinery Pilot Research, Umeå. Sweden, 14-16 May 2013
Registration is open to PhD students in Bio4Energy until 15 April 2013. Post-doctoral student may also submit an expression of interest in attending the course. To register, please send an e-mail to the Bio4Energy graduate school coordinator This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Luleå University of Technology. The Biorefinery Pilot Research course will be run by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.   

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Seminar by industry-academy Forest Chemistry project, Stockholm, Sweden, 11 April 2013
 
Fee: Free of charge
Where:Innventia main office, Drottning Kristina väg 61 B, Stockholm 
Registration to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Processum Biorefinery Initiative  
Contacts: Lars Josefsson, +46 70 558 7673; Leif Jönsson, +46 90 786 6811; Carl Johan Franzen, +46 31 772 3808 

13:00-13:05       Welcome, Lars Josefsson, INEOS Sweden Ltd. 
13:05-13:30       The Forest Chemistry VINNOVA project, Clas Engström, Processum Biorefinery Initiative

13:30-14:30       Advanced biofuel solutions: INEOS Bios technology, Graham Rice, INEOS Bio Ltd.
14:30-15:00       An overview of pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis: status and challenges, Leif Jönsson, Umeå University
15:00-15:30       Coffee break
15:30-15:50       POLYNOL - Integrated production of polymers and ethanol from forest and sugar cane industries, Niklas Berglin, Innventia
15:50-16:20       Other fermentation products besides ethanol - status and challenges, Carl Johan Franzén, Chalmers

16:20-17:00       Discussion on possibilities and challenges

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Bio4Energy Graduate School Opening Conference – Skellefteå, Sweden, 19-20 March 2013
The Bio4Energy Graduate School will officially begin its works on 19-20 March 2013 with a grand opening conference to be held in Skellefteå. On Day 1, from 10.00 to lunch, keynote lectures will be given by well-known guest speakers, while presentations given by PhD students and post-doctorate student will take up the rest of Day 1 and all of Day 2. PhD students and PostDocs are encouraged to submit their abstracts. The best one will be awarded a Solander prize.

The conference is dedicated in particular to PhD students and PostDocs, who will not pay a fee to attend the conference. This is an opportunity for them to present their research, exchange ideas and knowledge and enhance their own networks. Industrial partners and PhD student supervisors are welcome to attend, but will be charged a fee. The conference will be given annually, and participation in at least two of these conferences will be required for graduation. More information about the conference and abstract submission will be sent out after the Christmas vacation, but in the meanwhile book your calendars!
Meeting_Programme_First_Programme_Conference_B4E_Graduate_School
 
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Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting, Umeå, Sweden, 25-27 February 2013 

The Chemical Biological Centre (KBC) at Umeå University play host to this meeting which has sessions dedicated to the kind of research that Bio4Energy conducts.

The KBC homepage says: "The meeting aims to strengthen and display our efforts towards research in the renewable energy field that is carried out within several strong research environments and research programmes at Umeå University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences: Solar Fuels, Artificial Leaf Project, Bio4Energy, BioImprove  and Trees and Crops for the Future".

PhD students who participate with a poster receive 1 ECTS certificate from the KBC Research School, the announcement says. 

The Organising Committee is made up of Bio4Energy members Johannes Messinger, Leif Jönsson, Johannes Hanson, Hannele Tuominen and Per Gardeström. Göran Samuelsson is also part of the committee. 
pdf  UREM 2013 Programme    

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HighBio2 Seminar: Biomass To Energy And Chemicals, Luleå, Sweden, 16 January 2013

Venue: Luleå University of Technology, Porsön, room E246. Register with This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

13:00 Registration
13:15 Opening of the seminar, Ulla Lassi, Professor, University of Oulu / Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius

13:30 Modeling of black liquor gasification - current status and comparison with pilot scale experiments, Rikard Gebart, Professor, Division of Energy Science, Luleå University of Technology
14:00 Membrane technology for efficient production of biofuels, Jonas Hedlund, Professor, Division of Sustainable Process Engineering, Luleå University of Technology

14:30 Coffee Break

14:45 Forest Refine - A cross border project for efficient raw material supply to biorefineries, Magnus Matisons, Project Manager - Forest Refine, BioFuel Region
15:05 Pilot Gasifier Producer Gas Analysis and Measurement Arrangements in Sievi Laboratory, Kari Pieniniemi, Researcher, Centria University of Applied Sciences
15:35 Activation of gasification carbon residue for adsorption applications, Sari Kilpimaa, Researcher, University of Oulu
16:05 Catalytic conversion of syngas over CO catalysts, Henrik Romar, Researcher, Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius / Ulla Lassi, Professor, Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius.

16:30 Discussion
17:00 Closing of the seminar 

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Bio4Energy Licentiate Lecture: Isolation and Characterisation of Nano-structured Materials, Luleå, Sweden, 4 December 2012

Martha Herrera, Nanostructured materials isolated from bio-residues and their characterisation, Luleå University of Technology, room E632 at 1 p.m..

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Integrated Biofuel Production - Policy and Technology, Lund, Sweden, 29 November 2012


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Creating a Bio4Energy Graduate School, Skellefteå, Sweden, 21 November 2012 

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of Bio4Energy has been putting together a working group which is to "make concrete plans to implement the entire research school with workshops and courses". To get started she would like for the working group to meet at Skellefteå where discussions will centre around "the coming steps". To join the meeting as a member of the working group, please fill in the doodle that she sent: http://doodle.com/yf7crk5nym2zpcrc.
pdf  Bio4Energy_Graduate_School_Ulrika_Rova_8_October_2012
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Workshop on Gasification Modelling, Luleå, Sweden, 21 November 2012

The Swedish Centre for Biomass Gasification (SFC) consists of three research nodes that focuses on three different gasification principles. Regardless of gasification principle there are certain aspects of the conversion of fuel particles and gas phase reactions that are the same. However, each gasification principle presents a unique set of challenges for the modelling researcher. This workshop is intended to bring together specialists and engineers with an interest in modelling and to create an environment for the sharing knowledge that hopefully will speed up the development of gasification models. The workshop has two parts, the first focusing on the microscopic details of fuel conversion and the gas phase reactions (sub models). The second targets the macroscopic behavior of the different reactor types (reactor models). The workshop will be made up of presentations and a discussion about the models and sub models.

Workshop dinner. All participants are invited to join a dinner on the evening before the workshop. 

Agenda:

08:00–08:30   Introduction and presentation of participants
08:30–09:30   Modelling of fuel particles and gas phase
09:30–10:00   Coffee
10:00–12:00   Modelling of fuel particles and gas phase
12:00–13.00   Lunch
13:00–14:30   Reactor modelling
14:30–15:00   Coffee
15:00–16:30   Reactor modelling
16:30–17:00   Workshop summary and discussion of future work

To register, please send an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., indicating whether you plan to take part in the pre-workshop dinner.
pdf  Gasification_Workshop_21_November_Programme
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Bio4Energy Disputation on High Flux Zeolite Membranes, Luleå, Sweden, 16 November  2012

Linda Sandström, High Flux Zeolite Membranes for Efficient Production of Biofuels, Luleå University of Technology, 10 a.m. in room C305.

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Bioenergy 2012 - Research for a New Generation of Green Products and Chemicals, Piteå, Sweden, 14-15 November 2012
 
Bio4Energy and the Solander Science Park will be co-hosting a Bioenergy conference at the annual Nolia Energy and Environmental Week. The conference will discuss international front line research on biorefinery and bioenergy made from forest-sourced raw materials or organic waste. 

Innovation and the commercialisation of research results will be a special focus of the Energy and Environmental Week which seeks to attract business leaders, industry representatives, policy makers, researchers and those interested in research and  innovation aimed  at developing tools and methods for conducting efficient and sustainable biorefinery. Registration will be available by mid September on the Nolia (conference organiser) website.
pdf  Bioenergy_2012_Programme_14-15_November

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Workshop on Cellulose Derivatives, Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, 13-14 November 2012 
  
The Bio4Energy partner Umeå University is co-organising an international Workshop on
Cellulose and Cellulose Derivatives. There was a call for abstracts which closed 31 May
2012. The contact person for scientific abstracts was This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Karlstad University,  Sweden.  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. at the Processum Biorefinery Initiative is in charge of communications  and marketing  of this event. Contacts in Bio4Energy are This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..   

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UBIOCHEM-III: Sustainable production of fuels/energy, materials & chemicals from biomass, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1-3 November 2012 

There was a call for scientific abstracts for the 3rd International Workshop on UBIOCHEM that closed 30 June 2012. Enquiries about this may be send to the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.by e-mail.

The workshop will feature oral and poster presentation according to certain thematic topics. The authors of the accepted contributions will be invited to submit a full manuscript for publication to "Catalysis Today" (Elsevier), following the standard peer-review process of this journal. A CD rom featuering the workshop abstracts will be made available. Contact persons are Kostas Triantafyllidis and Anastasia Zabaniotou, co-chairs of UBIOCHEM-III Workshop. (No e-mail addresses were submitted for these contacts.)

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Bio4Energy Researchers' Meeting, Skellefteå, Sweden, 8 October 2012 

Researchers' Meeting will prepare Bio4Energy's participation to the Bioenergy Conference at the Nolia Environment and Energy Week, 14-15 November 2012 at Piteå, as well as the start of the  Bio4Energy Graduate School. Research presentations will be given to describe a European project to upgrade and market European research infrastructures, as well as recent advanced in research on the content of ashes from biomass burning or avenues for its use. Contact point for this meeting is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Bio4Energy Communications.
  pdf  Bio4Energy_Researchers_Meeting_8_October_2012_Programme
pdf  Bio4Energy_Graduate_School_Ulrika_Rova_8_October_2012
pdf  f3_B4E_Joakim_Lundgren_8_October_2012  

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Bio4Energy Environmental Platform Meeting, Umeå, Sweden, 20 September 2012  

The meeting will start at 9 a.m. Presentations will be given a.m. to describe the work by the participating research groups from Umeå University, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Luleå University of Technology and the SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden. The afternoon will be spent developing new joint projects. Contact point for this meeting is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., head of the Bio4Energy Environmental Platform. 
 
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Bioethanol in a Biorefinery Context, Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, 23-25 May 2012 -- Students who attended this course may be eligible for academic credit. Please
check your status with the course coordinator/your contact among the organisers.

This was a graduate-level course arranged by the European Integrated Project NEMO in collaboration with BIOREGS, Bio4Energy and Umeå University. The contact person at the hosting institution Processum Biorefinery Initiative was This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., phone number +46 660-75049.

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