{{About, EU Project Renew, , Renew (disambiguation) Renew is a European four-year project (2004–07) to prove different concepts of fuel production from

biomass Biomass is plant-based material used as a fuel for heat or electricity production. It can be in the form of wood, wood residues, energy crops, agricultural residues, and waste from industry, farms, and households. Some people use the terms bi ...

. Established and funded by the European Unions Sixth Framework Programme in January 2004, the Renew consortium consisted of 33 partners from 9 European countries. More than half of the partners are industrial enterprises, remaining are research and development institutes, with the special expertise needed to perform the individual R&D tasks. The project divided into six sub-projects, four of which were dedicated to the optimisation and analysis of the fuel production process and production routes for

biofuels Biofuel is a fuel that is produced over a short time span from biomass, rather than by the very slow natural processes involved in the formation of fossil fuels, such as oil. According to the United States Energy Information Administration (E ...

from

lignocellulosic Lignocellulose refers to plant dry matter (biomass), so called lignocellulosic biomass. It is the most abundantly available raw material on the Earth for the production of biofuels. It is composed of two kinds of carbohydrate polymers, cellulose a ...

feedstock, also known as

second generation biofuel Second-generation biofuels, also known as advanced biofuels, are fuels that can be manufactured from various types of non-food biomass. Biomass in this context means plant materials and animal waste used especially as a source of fuel. First-gene ...

Partners

Automotive industry

* Volkswagen, Wolfsburg, Germany * Daimler Chrysler,

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

, Germany * Renault through REGIENOV, Boulogne Billancourt, France * Volvo through VTEC,

Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...

, Sweden

R&D institutes and universities

* AICIA (Asociacion de investigacion Y Cooperacion Industrial de Andalucia), Seville, Spain * CERTH (National Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas), Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece * CRES (Center for Renewable Energy Sources), Pikermi, Greece * CUTEC, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany * EEE (Europäisches Zentrum für Erneuerbare Energie), Güssing, Austria *

Lunds Universitet , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion Lund Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...

, Sweden * Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Institut für technische Chemie, Karlsruhe, Germany * IEE (Institute of Energy and Environment), Leipzig, Germany * INiG (Instytut Nafty i Gazu), Kraków, Poland * ITN (Instytut Technoligii Nafty; English: Institute of Petroleum Processing), Kraków, Poland * PSI (Paul Scherrer Institute), Villingen, Switzerland * TUV (Technische Universität Wien), Vienna, Austria * ZSW (Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research),

, Germany

Fuel distribution

* BP,

Bochum Bochum ( , also , ; wep, Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 364,920 (2016), is the sixth largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) of the most populous Germany, German federal state o ...

, Germany *

Total Total may refer to: Mathematics * Total, the summation of a set of numbers * Total order, a partial order without incomparable pairs * Total relation, which may also mean ** connected relation (a binary relation in which any two elements are comp ...

Paris La Défense Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Sin ...

, France

Plant engineering and construction

Chemrec Chemrec AB (Chemrec) is a Stockholm, Sweden-based company with comprehensive experience of pioneering the development of black liquor gasification (BLG) technology for energy and chemicals recovery at pulp mills. The Chemrec process for gasifica ...

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

, Sweden * Repotec - Renewable Power Technologies Umwelttechnik, Güssing, Austria * UET (Umwelt- und Energietechnik Freiberg), Freiberg, Germany

Plant operator

* Abengoa, Sevilla, Spain * Biomasse-Kraftwerk Güssing, Güssing, Austria * Södra Cell, Mörrum, Sweden

Agriculture and forestry biomass research

* EC BREC/CLN (EC Baltic Renewable Energy Centre), Warsaw, Poland * STFI (now

Innventia RISE Innventia AB is a subsidiary to RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. The business focuses on research, development and innovation in the pulp and paper industry, packaging industry and the biorefining Biorefining is the process of "building" m ...

, Sweden * National University of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Services

* B.A.U.M. Consult, Munich, Germany * Ecotraffic,

, Sweden * ESU-services, Uster, Switzerland * SYNCOM F&E Beratung, Ganderkesee, Germany

Investors

EDF EDF may refer to: Organisations * Eclaireurs de France, a French Scouting association * Education for Development Foundation, a Thai charity * Électricité de France, a French energy company ** EDF Energy, their British subsidiary ** EDF Luminus, ...

(Electricité de France), Chatou, France

Sub-projects

* Product optimization of BTL production * Process optimization of BTL production * Black liquor to DME/

methanol Methanol (also called methyl alcohol and wood spirit, amongst other names) is an organic chemical and the simplest aliphatic alcohol, with the formula C H3 O H (a methyl group linked to a hydroxyl group, often abbreviated as MeOH). It is a ...

* Optimization of Bioethanol production *

Biofuel Biofuel is a fuel that is produced over a short time span from biomass, rather than by the very slow natural processes involved in the formation of fossil fuels, such as oil. According to the United States Energy Information Administration (E ...

Assessment * Training

External links

Renew website

Renew executive summary

Sixth Framework Programme (EU site)
Bioenergy organizations Biofuels