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Details of projects from the JOULE/THERMIE Programme, plus projects in the Biomass and Bioenergy Chain of the FAIR Programme are included in: EUR 18303 EN: Biomass and Bioenergy - Catalogue of Contracts

Objectives | Rational Use of Energy | Renewable Energies | Fossil Fuels |
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Description Acronym:
Joint Opportunities for Unconventional or Long-term Energy supply/ Technologies Européennes pour la Maîtrise de l'Energie

Title:
Specific research, technological development and demonstration programme in the field of non-nuclear energy: "Technologies for cleaner and more efficient energy production and use", 1994-1998

Objectives:
To encourage research and technological development activities in the field of clean and efficient energy technologies as a contribution to the security of energy supplies and to sustainable development; to speed up the development and dissemination of technologies which are almost mature but whose technical and economic viability still remains largely to be disseminated; to encourage partnerships between universities, industry, users and operators of energy networks; and, to contribute towards economic and social cohesion by developing appropriate energy sources suitable for decentralised use and harnessing local resources.

Subdivisions of Programme: Three areas

1. Rational use of energy:

   Incorporates both R&D and Demonstration activities covering energy efficiency on the demand side of the energy sector:

   • Energy efficiency in buildings (to achieve a substantial reduction in both energy consumption and CO2 and other pollutant emissions in building stocks through technical and economic improvements and efficient management and control systems)
   • Energy efficiency in industry (to reduce the specific energy consumption per unit of production or to increase the productivity at equal energy consumption, in order to increase the competitiveness of European industries or lead to the development of new products)
   • Energy industry, electricity and heat and fuel cells (to increase the efficiency both of transformation of primary energy into heat and/or electricity and of the transport and distribution of useful energy)
   • Energy storage (the programme focuses on electricity storage by giving priority to the transport sector, which also supports the activities foreseen by the next action)
   • Transport and urban infrastructure (to attain a substantial improvement in the overall energy efficiency of public transport systems, a more coherent transport management and an increased awareness of public transport)

2. Renewable energies:

   Incorporates both R&D and Demonstration activities aimed at permitting the introduction of new renewable energy resources, on a significant scale, into the European energy system:

   • Integration of renewable energies (facilitating the integration of renewable energies from the technological point of view by taking into account economic and social aspects)
   • Solar photovoltaic electricity
   • Renewable energies in buildings and industry
   • Wind energy (to include the development of a new, more powerful, generation of wind turbines exceeding 1-2MW)
   • Energy from biomass and waste (to reduce harmful emissions and the costs of electricity generation, improve reliability, promote the broader use of known technologies, improve their application and integration, increase their competitiveness and reduce their cost)
   • Hydroelectric power (only demonstration projects are supported under this activity, covering design and construction, materials or methods of operation and control of new technologies)
   • Geothermal energy
   • Other options (limited action on different families of renewable energies which are at different stages of development, including wave and tidal energies, micro-hydro, solar thermodynamics, clean production and use of hydrogen, etc.)

3. Fossil fuels:

   Incorporates both R&D and Demonstration activities which address the improvement of coal and hydrocarbon-based energy conversion systems, the development of new energy systems, energy savings in the demand sectors, energy storage and the more efficient exploration and production of indigenous resources of hydrocarbons. An integrated approach will be developed for the application of clean and efficient energy technologies in the relevant sectors such as in building, industry and transport.

Clean technologies for solid fossil fuels

• Generic combustion
• Hydrocarbons and new fuels in transport
• Exploration and production of hydrocarbons (to strengthen industry's capability to answer the short- and long-term requirements for the availability and implementation of efficient technologies in the field of oil and natural gas. Particular attention is paid to the eastern and central European and CIS markets)

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Other European Commission Programmes, Publications, etc

• JOR3-CT98-0306: Process simulation of circulating fluidised beds with combustion/gasification of biomass
• JOULE JOR3-CT95-0001: Fractionated heavy metal separation and ash utilisation in biomass combustion and gasification plants
• JOULE JOR3-CT95-0015: Implementation studies in four regions of the EU for power from biomass at the scale of 1 to 5 MW
• JOULE JOR3-CT95-0021: Fixed bed gasification of agricultural residues
• JOULE JOR3-CT95-0025: Biofuel oil for power plants and boilers
• JOULE JOR3-CT95-0027: Pressurised combustion of biomass-derived, low calorific value fuel gas
• JOULE JOR3-CT95-0032: Safe handling of renewable fuels and fuel mixtures
• JOULE JOR3-CT95-0037: Production of hydrogen rich gas by biomass gasification: application to small scale, fuel cell electricity generation in rural areas
• JOULE JOR3-CT95-0039: Strategy for the introduction of a biomass power plant in Spain
• JOULE JOR3-CT95-0053: Catalytic upgrading of gas from biofuels and implementation of electricity production
• JOULE JOR3-CT95-0056: Development of newly designed wood burning systems with low emissions and high efficiency
• JOULE JOR3-CT95-0057: Operational problems, trace emissions and by-product management for industrial biomass co-combustion
• JOULE JOR3-CT95-0060: Small agro-energy farm scheme implementation for rescuing deserting land in small Mediterranean islands having water and agricultural land
• JOULE JOR3-CT95-0079: Conversion of biomass: prediction and solution methods for ash agglomeration and related problems
• JOULE JOR3-CT95-0081: Catalytic pyrolysis of biomass for improved liquid fuel quality
• JOULE JOR3-CT95-0084: Development of an integrated small scale combined heat and power (CHP) fixed bed gasification system fuelled by standard gasifier fuel
• JOULE JOR3-CT96-0059: Reduction of nitrogen oxide emissions from wood chip grate furnaces
• JOULE JOR3-CT96-0071: Catalytic combustor for ultra-low emissions dual fuel gas turbine
• JOULE JOR3-CT96-0099: A novel approach for the integration of biomass pyrolytic conversion processes in existing markets of liquid fuels and chemicals
• JOULE JOR3-CT96-0105: Solid biomass gasification for fuel cells
• JOULE JOR3-CT96-0176: Aqueous thermal conversion of biomass to hydrocarbons in the fluid fuel range
• JOULE JOR3-CT97-0125: Improved technologies for the gasification of energy crops
• JOULE JOR3-CT97-0130: Gasification of biomass with oxygen rich air in a reverse-flow, slagging gasifier
• JOULE JOR3-CT97-0138: Combined low temperature gasification and combustion for clean power production from straw and biomass with high ash content (LOTEGAS)
• JOULE JOR3-CT97-0144: CHP Gas Turbine Fuelled Directly by a Biomass Gasifier (GT Biogasifier)
• JOULE JOR3-CT97-0157: Development of selective oxidation technology for NOx emission reduction in gasification power plants
• JOULE JOR3-CT97-0166: Turbulence chamber gasification with combustion-optimised gas engine and turbulence chamber treatment (development of components)
• JOULE JOR3-CT97-0168: Development of novel fixed-bed gasification methods for biomass residues and agrobiofuels
• JOULE JOR3-CT97-0170: Advanced neural network based devolatilisation modelling for higher energy efficiency and lower NOx emissions from biomass fuel systems (BIONET)
• JOULE JOR3-CT97-0174: Bioethanol as fuel for fuel cell vehicles and small-scale stationary power production
• JOULE JOR3-CT97-0178: Optimised combustion of biomass and biomass-waste fuels in stoker-fired boilers
• JOULE JOR3-CT97-0179: Co-firing of bio-oil with simultaneous SOx and NOx reduction
• JOULE JOR3-CT97-0184: Pollutants reduction in small biomass combustion systems (PRIBIC)
• JOULE JOR3-CT97-0191: Reduction of toxic emissions from co-combustion of coal, biomass and waste in fluidised bed
• JOULE JOR3-CT97-0196: Hydrogen-rich gas from biomass steam gasification
• JOULE JOR3-CT97-0197: Development of advanced fast pyrolysis processes for power and heat
• JOULE JOR3-CT97-0200: Improved energy generation based on biomass FBC with minimum emission
• JOULE JOR3-CT97-0220: Clean biomass staged gasifier based on new tar cracking and ash slagging techniques for efficient combined heat and power generation
• JOULE JOR3-CT98-0198: Prediction of ash and deposit formation for biomass co-combustion
• JOULE JOR3-CT98-0212: Combustion diagnostics
• JOULE JOR3-CT98-0213: Pulsed corona discharge tar cracker for thermally generated biogas (PC-TAC)
• JOULE JOR3-CT98-0232: Biomass gasification modelling for energy systems
• JOULE JOR3-CT98-0249: Feasibility study of a biomass to electricity
• JOULE JOR3-CT98-0250: Combined dry removal of particles and gaseous compounds from biomass combustion off-gases in a filtration-type particle separator
• JOULE JOR3-CT98-0253: Bio fuel oil - upgrading by hot filtration and novel physical methods. A supporting action for a demonstration scheme
• JOULE JOR3-CT98-0276: Co-firing of biomass, coal waste and coal in mining sites for electricity generation
• JOULE JOR3-CT98-0278: Increased combustion stability in modulating biomass boilers for district heating systems
• JOULE JOR3-CT98-0281: Cyclone gasification of pulverised biomass for operation of gas turbines in cogeneration plants
• JOULE JOR3-CT98-0285: Application of utilisation and emissions of biomass residues from industrial combustors
• JOULE JOR3-CT98-0291: Innovative components for decentralised combined heat and power generation from biomass gasification
• JOULE JOR3-CT98-0307: Bio-emulsion: development of a bio-crude oil/diesel oil emulsion
• JOULE JOR3-CT98-0309: Cotton biomass energy recovery (COBER)
• JOULE JOR3-CT98-0310: Small-scale combined heat and power (CHP) from bio-crude oil fuelled to a Stirling engine
• Publications: EUR 18303 EN: Biomass and Bioenergy - Catalogue of Contracts
• THERMIE BM./00008/97: Generation of electricity by the LR-gasification of dried, undigested sewage sludge
• THERMIE BM./00012/97: 25 MW straw-fired fluidised bed, high efficiency district heating power plant in Pamplona
• THERMIE BM./00015/96 part 1 & BM./00279/97 part2: Co-utilisation of gasified biomass and origin classified refuses (REF) and coal in CHP plant [part 1 and part 2]
• THERMIE BM./00017/96: Demonstration of a bed mixing dryer for wet biomass saving fuel in energy production
• THERMIE BM./00036/97: A power generation plant to produce 5 MWe by utilising fluidised bed combustion technology to burn forestry and municipal residues
• THERMIE BM./00059/98: Biomass fired CHP plant based on a steam screw-type engine cycle in Sachsenburg (Austria)
• THERMIE BM./00060/98: Organic Rankine Cycle based CHP production from multi biomass fuels
• THERMIE BM./00073/97: Demonstration of a 30 MWe atmospheric gasification combined cycle power plant fuelled with several biomass waste streams in Noord Holland
• THERMIE BM./00078/97: Conversion of a lignite coal-fired system into a biomass fuel system, partially using contaminated recycling timber in the Wolfen power station
• THERMIE BM./00120/98: Biomass fired CHP plant based on Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) - Project "ORC - STIA Admont"
• THERMIE BM./00123/98: A 27 MWe RDF gasification plant at Ano Liosia
• THERMIE BM./00180/97: Northampton biomass power station [phase 1]
• THERMIE BM./00188/96: Electricity production (10 MWe) by combustion process of agro-forestry biomass at Umbertide
• THERMIE BM./00238/95: Demonstration project industrial park Berlin-Tegel, 3.5 MWth fluidised bed combustion for heat generation
• THERMIE BM./00248/97: Industrial production of electric power by utilisation of purified low energy gas coming from refuse derived fuel
• THERMIE BM./00333/95: Sustainable biomass district heating plant Tamsweg, realisation of the technological and ecological state of art
• THERMIE BM./00348/95: Combustion of industrial biomass waste for production of heat and power to cover energy needs in horticultural industry
• THERMIE BM./01007/94: Energy farm: an IGCC plant for the production of electricity through gasification of SRF biomass
• THERMIE BM./01009/94: Arable biomass renewable energy (ARBRE)

Contacts

Director (DG XVII-D)

• Pedro DE SAMPAIO NUNES / European Commission, DG XVII THERMIE Programme / BELGIUM

Head of Unit (DG XII-F)

• Michel POIREAU / European Commission JOULE Programme / BELGIUM

Head of Unit (DGXVII-D3)

• Enzo MILLICH / European Commission, DG XVII THERMIE Programme / BELGIUM

THERMIE

• Manuela PINHEIRO / European Commission, DG XVII THERMIE Programme / BELGIUM