Invitation to a Joint Call on cleaning and treatment of product gas from biomass gasifiers
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2007 June 1st
Aim of the call
The purpose of this call is to generate joint European industrially relevant research
and development activities within ERA-NET BIOENERGY. This call builds on the experience
that was gained in the first Joint Call on Small Scale Combustion of wood.
This call provides new opportunities for industries and researchers to take part in
multilateral cooperation in the field of gasification of biomass for energetic use
and to enhance the quality of the conducted research. Projects are expected to provide
knowledge through research in order to develop solutions which are economically competitive,
reliable and environmentally friendly.
Given the limited budget and also the content of the existing FP7 call from the European
Commission the focal area that was selected for the joint call in the whole chain
of biomass gasification is gas treatment and cleaning. The joint call will open on
1st June 2007 and will be closed on 6th September 2007.
This call will be published on the ERA-NET BIOENERGY web page and on the web pages
of the national programmes. See: www.eranetbioenergy.net
Biomass gasification research in industry
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Background
This is a joint call by some of the ERA-NET BIOENERGY partners. ERA-NET-BIOENERGY
is a network of national R&D programmes focusing on bioenergy. The network includes
funding organisations from Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,
Sweden and the United Kingdom. Further calls are intended to be launched within the
ERA-NET BIOENERGY project. The ERA-NET BIOENERGY project has a duration of 4 years
and ends December 2008. The funding agencies organising this joint call will be aiming
to investigate best practises for arrangement of joint calls and subsequent evaluation
of the resulting projects. We will also be aiming to provide a platform for the exchange
of information and knowledge related to biomass gasification research in different
countries through workshops and other dissemination activities.
The European Commission actively supports the use of biomass for energy as part of
the EU aim to increase the use of renewable energy and to avoid an increase of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. The European Union and its Member States recently
decided to set a target of 20% CO2-reduction and the implementation of 20% Renewable Energy by the year 2020. Biomass
and the use of gasification technology is needed to realise this goal, especially
in liquid biofuel applications.
Biomass Gasification Research is very diverse and its applications can be seen in
different areas. However the longterm perspective in the market is seen as promising.
Gasification offers the possibility of higher efficiencies, high flexibility and good
economics both for power production and for production of liquid biofuels.
The Gasification chain: Different kinds of resources can be gasified. Dried wood chips, wood residues, energy
crops, agricultural residues or wastes can be used in a set of possible gasifiers.
These different gasifiers (Entrained Flow, Circulating Fluidised Bed, etc.) all have
their own characteristics and result in a specific quality of producer gas. This producer
gas needs treatment and cleaning to make it usable for different kind of applications.
Through cleaning and treatment, it can either be used to burn and produce power, or
to produce a syngas that can be upgraded to methanol or Fischer Tropsch diesel.
The required research covers product gas cleaning, gas conditioning and gas conversion or utilisation.
A lot of accompanying research is needed to tackle specific problems; e.g. gas composition
measurement, fouling and scaling, cooling problems, catalysts (production, utilisation
or degradation), etc.
Joint call topic
Research and Development for innovative and economically competitive gas treatment
systems to improve the quality and composition of product gas from biomass gasifiers
for energetic purposes (CHP, fuels, SNG,..).
The topic for the joint call is restricted to Gas Cleaning and Gas Treatment. The
call is open for the development of a range of different technologies to clean and
treat the different produced gases from gasifiers, and enable the utilisation in all
different applications.
General instructions for proposers
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Consortium
Proposals are invited from companies and/or research organisations depending on national
funding conditions. [Be aware that national criteria apply!]. Proposals must include
partners from at least two of the countries involved in the call. There should be
at least one industrial partner in the consortium that is able to implement the developed
technological and scientific know-how to reach the goal of the call. Research project
outputs are expected to provide benefits to all partner countries.
The project partners are required to sign a consortium agreement in order to agree
on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and other relevant issues dealing with responsibilities
within the project and exploitation of results. The consortium agreement must be signed
before the first payment can be made.
Table: Overview of countries and possible applicants. At least one industry should
participate in the consortium
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Country
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Programme
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Who can apply
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UK/ EPSRC
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Energy Research
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Research Institutions (standard EPSRC eligibility rules apply)
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Finland/Tekes
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Climbus
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Industries
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All others
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Industries and Research Institutes
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Funding arrangements
Research will be funded from national sources and will be subject to their national
funding rules. Each participating funding agency has made separate arrangements for
funding the national participants. The public funding available for the individual
projects funded in the frame of this call follows the national rules. Additional co-financing
from stakeholders is expected following national and European rules for R&D funding.
The total funding budget is limited. For details please contact your national agency.
Project duration
Projects are expected to start between January 2008 and March 2008 and must be completed
by 31st December 2009.
Deadline for Submission
Proposals must be submitted to your participating national funding agency by 6th September 2007.
Structure of Submission
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The documentation you have to submit consists of two parts.
1. A Common proposal written in English which contains all relevant information about
the joint project. This will be evaluated as one entity by an international jury and
will form the basis for the funding decision.
2. A standard application form from your funding agency describing the involvement
and funding requirements of each national proposer. The information within this document
serve as a national project proposal and should be extracted from the Common proposal
as these documents will not be seen by the international jury.
These documents should be submitted by each project partner to their participating
national funding agency (see list of national contacts below).
Structure of Common ProposalThe common proposal must be equal for every applicant
within any one consortium. The final version of the common proposal must be approved
by the coordinator of the project before submisson.
The Common Proposal document should be structured as follows:
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1. Project Title (max. 150 characters).
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2. Duration in months (Considering that project work must be completed by 31st December 2009).
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3. Name of coordinator of the project.
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4. Applicant details (institution, name of contact person, contact information).
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5. Financial summary table – totals only, (in €) for overall costs, costs per partner,
required national funding per partner.
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6. Executive summary (300 words).
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7. Detailed description of consortium (role of each partner organisation and stakeholders
involved).
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8. Detailed description of project (objectives, materials and methods, state of the art
and innovative contribution of the project, work packages) (max. 5 pages).
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9. Project planning and management, this section should include a graphical work plan),
deliverables, milestones, work packages (i.e. what is done by whom?) together with
details of assigned resources/man-hours and associated budgets (max. 10 pages).
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10. Project outcomes (implementation and exploitation plan, implementation should involve
all participating countries) (max. 3 pages).
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11. Background and competences of participating organisations and individuals (max. 1
page per partner organisation plus ½ page per key person involved).
The proposal should be written using the Times New Roman font with a minimum acceptable
font size of 10.
Proposal evaluation
The proposals will be evaluated by an international evaluation jury, selected by the
funding organisations involved in the call. The international evaluation jury will
provide recommendations for funding. The final decisions will be made by the ERA-NET
BIOENERGY partners.
The evaluation meeting will take place during October 2007 and the funding decisions
will be communicated by the end of December 2007.
The evaluation criteria are:
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– fit to call
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– technological and scientific quality of R&D (including why specifically the international
cooperation improves the quality of the results)
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– implementation and exploitation of results
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– resources available for the project, including quality of project management and coordination.
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– promoting cooperation within the ERA-Net Bioenergy framework.
Beyond these instructions above, your participating national funding agency’s guidelines
should be followed. If you intend to participate in this call, please contact your
national contact person.
Project Monitoring and Expected Deliverables
In addition to the standard requirements of your funding agency we will require the
following:
1. Participation and presentation at a joint ERA-NET workshop.
2. A common publishable Final Report (written in English) describing the activities
and outcomes of the work including an exploration plan how to implement the results
of the project. The report should consist of a public summary and the rest will be
treated confidential. National guidelines have to be followed as well. Detailed requirements
for this report will be distributed to successful applicants once the projects have
started.
Participating countries / National contact points
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Austria
BMVIT, FFG
Michael Hübner, Karin Hollaus
Tel +43 1 71162 652923
michael.huebner@bmvit.gv.at
karin.hollaus@bmvit.gv.at
www.ENERGIESYSTEMEderZUKUNFT.at
Denmark
Energinet.dk
Steen Vestervang
Tel. +45 7622 4527
stv@energinet.dk
www.energinet.dk
Finland
Tekes
Pia Salokoski
Tel. +358 10 60 55672
pia.salokoski@tekes.fi
www.tekes.fi
Germany
Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.V.
Dr. Andrej Stanev, Karen Görner
Tel. +49 (0) 3843/6930-162
k.goerner@fnr.de
www.fnr.de
Sweden
STEM
Ann Segerborg-Fick
Tel. +46 16 544 2115
ann.segerborgfick@energimyndigheten.se
www.energimyndigheten.se
The United Kingdom
EPSRC
Neil Bateman
Tel. +44 (0)1793 44 44 96
neil.bateman@epsrc.ac.uk
www.epsrc.ac.uk/energy
The Netherlands
SenterNovem
Matté Brijder, Kees Kwant
Tel. +31 (0)30 2147954, +31 (0)30 2393458
m.brijder@senternovem.nl
k.kwant@senternovem.nl
www.senternovem.nl/eos
