As the season draws to a close, Bio4Energy wants to wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. This will be the last news post from Bio4Energy, from this publisher. Communications Anna Strom is leaving Bio4Energy at the end of 2024, but plans to be available by e-mail until the last week of January 2025. […]
Bio4Energy scientists and partners are offering an opportunity for researchers to learn more about the benefits of applying for time to make experiments aided by brilliant X-ray light, at so-called synchrotron facilities, to study the inside of materials. The partners are hosting a workshop 27 November at Umeå, Sweden; both for on-site and online participation. […]
Bio4Energy researchers and partners are laying the groundwork for making water filters and electrodes for energy storage devices, from residual biomass materials that are in excess. The main product used in this project is activated carbon and the technology used for the transformation of biomass into biochar is pyrolysis. Biochar is a brittle and porous […]
Bio4Energy’s research team dedicated to creating applications from green algae have won funds to investigate the composition of cell walls in microalgae. These are microscopic algae that are not visible to the unaided eye, used to produce algal biomass for use in biotechnology applications. Christiane Funk and students at Umeå University, Sweden hope to develop […]
Bio4Energy experts at nanotechnology have been selected to receive an ‘Innovator of the Year’ award by their home organisation Luleå University of Technology, Sweden for their continued efforts to develop bio-based solutions for industry. The award motivation highlights the creation of medical and health care applications as a particularly successful avenue. LTU pro vice-chancellor Charlotte […]
A grouping of Bio4Energy experts on systems analysis have won a large grant to map out new value chains for the production of biochar, a type of charcoal, for use in industry or as a carbon sink. Biocarbon – with the application biochar, which is a form of biomass pre-treated in high temperatures and in […]
Development park Bioeconomy Arena opened today, at Örnsköldsvik in northern Sweden. It is a 2,400 square metre park for development of products and materials from bio-based input material, such as residue from forestry operations or bio-based waste from pulp and paper making. Processum Biorefinery Cluster, Bio4Energy’s strategic collaboration partner, stands host to the Arena. It […]
A consortium of Bio4Energy researchers has scored a grant for developing bio-based plastic to deliver prototypes of consumer products by project end, three years from now. It involves a number of industrial and business partners who will provide either facilities and input material for experimental trials or develop consumer products, such as lampshade prototypes and […]
The application is open to Bio4Energy’s generic course Systems’ Perspectives on Biomass Resources. It is a training about systems analysis of bio-based technologies, processes and systems. “You learn to develop a holistic perspective; to see the big picture. This is important for all researchers and not only when it comes to bioenergy, although this is […]
The Bio4Energy Advisory Board, made up of ten distinguished representatives of the bioenergy and biorefinery sector in Sweden, was designed as a sounding board to the Bio4Energy Board and programme managers whose joint task is to administer and monitor the agenda of the research environment and its funding. It met at Örnsköldsvik, Sweden this week […]
