European – Canadian partnership for climate-positive heat and power generation through improved biomass feedstock supply and innovative conversion technologies

Climate change is the most significant challenge for humanity today.

For this reason, replacement of fossil fuels with renewables and improved energy efficiency in combination with CO2 capture is needed.

Among renewables, biomass will play a major role in satisfying the human energy needs.EUCANwin! will increase viability of the biomass supply chain from forest and develop an efficient heat and power technology with a high share of power production together with negative carbon emissions in international cooperation between EU and Canada.In particular, to overcome these challenges, EUCANwin! involves artificial intelligence in combination with tools and technologies within the biomass supply chain such as the Forest Biomass Atlas (FBA), the tree-length harvesting (TLH) method and the On-board intelligent biomass analyser (OBIBA) to supply sustainable, long-term and cost efficient biomass feedstock for biopower production.

Moreover, it will develop the technology of the Biomass-fired Top Cycle (BTC) for a high-efficient electricity production (up to 55%).

And the project will finally determine the optimal and cost-efficient CO2 capture technology for the purpose of the BTC conversion process.To do so, EUCANwin! consortium gathers the necessary experience, knowledge and resources.

It successfully works as an international cooperation, by means of 10 entities from 6 different countries, including Canada and 5 EU countries (Belgium, Finland, Hungary, Spain and Sweden), among which, 2 Canadian universities, 3 RTD organisations and 5 SMEs to ensure market exploitation (2 industrial companies and 3 innovation consultancies).