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Presentation of the prototype plat of biodiesel production from fried oil waste
The consortium of the Life Bioseville Project presented the prototype for the production of biodiesel from waste oils to the representatives of the European Commission. This prototype, which operates with an oscillating flow reactor system, allows the production of biodiesel continuously, unlike other systems whose production is carried out by "pack", which makes this biodiesel production system faster and more efficient, saving on production costs
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Interview with Paloma Álvarez, Life Bioseville project coordinator
Challenges in the new stage of the Life Bioseville project:
1-Q: Good morning, Professor, I understand that the LifeBioseville project is relaunched with the US as the new coordinating partner of the project, having to distribute its tasks among the rest of the partners, how was the distribution of tasks? Are these tasks going to be developed without budgetary changes?
PA: Due to the problems of the previous coordinating partner, the project had to request an extension of one and a half years. In order to continue with the project, and with the same budget, the rest of the partners have had to reduce our budget in order to face the deficit that the previous coordinator left us. And we have shared the tasks between the US, which assumes the coordination of the project, and the CIEMAT, which assumes the tasks of dissemination.
2-Q: In the coming months, and according to the schedule, the prototype should be working, what is the current status? Are you planning to carry out exploratory experiments in the coming months?
PA: The prototype is currently almost finished. In the coming months we will get it ready and expect it to be at full capacity between January and February of 2018.
3-Q: For the start-up of the prototype, once it is fully ready, you will need frying oil, where is this oil going to be extracted? How much will be necessary?
PA: During the start of the prototype and later, the frying oil will be proportional to the BIOSEL Company. This is an Andalusian company, authorized for the management of non-hazardous waste, which is dedicated to the collection of used vegetable oils. This company, through a physical treatment of frying oil, removes solids in suspension and water, for further processing into biodiesel. For the project we would need about 10 m3 of oil.
4-Q: One of the most important activities of the LIFE projects are the dissemination activities. What are the activities planned for the next conferences? Is it expected to present the work in a congress or conference?
PA: The US will present an oral communication this coming December in the Congress organized by the International Doctoral School.
5-Q: In the long term, and to close the interview, what do you think will be the main conclusions of this project?
PA: Among the main conclusions of this project are the development of a new technology for the production of biodiesel (which will be patented shortly), the reuse of a highly polluting waste such as frying oil, and, finally, the use of the glycerin obtained as a by-product in the production of biodiesel.
1-Q: Good morning, Professor, I understand that the LifeBioseville project is relaunched with the US as the new coordinating partner of the project, having to distribute its tasks among the rest of the partners, how was the distribution of tasks? Are these tasks going to be developed without budgetary changes?
PA: Due to the problems of the previous coordinating partner, the project had to request an extension of one and a half years. In order to continue with the project, and with the same budget, the rest of the partners have had to reduce our budget in order to face the deficit that the previous coordinator left us. And we have shared the tasks between the US, which assumes the coordination of the project, and the CIEMAT, which assumes the tasks of dissemination.
2-Q: In the coming months, and according to the schedule, the prototype should be working, what is the current status? Are you planning to carry out exploratory experiments in the coming months?
PA: The prototype is currently almost finished. In the coming months we will get it ready and expect it to be at full capacity between January and February of 2018.
3-Q: For the start-up of the prototype, once it is fully ready, you will need frying oil, where is this oil going to be extracted? How much will be necessary?
PA: During the start of the prototype and later, the frying oil will be proportional to the BIOSEL Company. This is an Andalusian company, authorized for the management of non-hazardous waste, which is dedicated to the collection of used vegetable oils. This company, through a physical treatment of frying oil, removes solids in suspension and water, for further processing into biodiesel. For the project we would need about 10 m3 of oil.
4-Q: One of the most important activities of the LIFE projects are the dissemination activities. What are the activities planned for the next conferences? Is it expected to present the work in a congress or conference?
PA: The US will present an oral communication this coming December in the Congress organized by the International Doctoral School.
5-Q: In the long term, and to close the interview, what do you think will be the main conclusions of this project?
PA: Among the main conclusions of this project are the development of a new technology for the production of biodiesel (which will be patented shortly), the reuse of a highly polluting waste such as frying oil, and, finally, the use of the glycerin obtained as a by-product in the production of biodiesel.
TUSSAM is committed to testing in its bus fleet the biodiesel promoted by the LIFE BIOSEVILLE project
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On July 11 a collaboration agreement was signed between the municipal company Transportes Urbanos de Sevilla (TUSSAM) and the Advanced Technological Center for Renewable Energies (CTAER) -the coordinating entity of the LIFE BIOSEVILLE project-, through which the demonstration phase of this European project, which will generate a new biofuel from frying oils, will be made in the public bus fleet of the city of Seville.
The event was attended by Carmen Castreño, first deputy mayor of the City of Seville and president of TUSSAM; Francisco Arteaga, manager of TUSSAM; Valeriano Ruiz, director of the CTAER, and a representation of the University of Seville, composed by Mª Montaña Durán and Javier Alés. The new biofuel comes from frying oils from the city of Seville, especially in the hospitality sector, and offers greater quality than current biodiesel. In the test bus TUSSAM makes available, through this agreement, an on-board pollutant emission measurement equipment will be installed to test the significant reduction of contaminating gases and particles that this biodiesel offers in comparison with the current ones. The demonstration phase is scheduled to take place in the first quarter of 2017. Since the signing of this agreement, both entities are committed to work to successfully test the new biodiesel on public buses in Seville. |
GENERA hosts the intermediate meeting of the LIFE BIOSEVILLE project
June 22, 2016- This morning has been held in the Civic Center of the Sevillian Municipality of Gerena, the Mid-Term Review of the European LIFE BIOSEVILLE project that aims "The development of a frying oil management system for the production of a new fuel, which will be tested on public buses in Seville.” The meeting was held in Gerena, in whose industrial park the SME CampoSur Investiga SL is performing the detailed engineering of a new industrial scale biodiesel production technology, which is one of the most important results that are expected. The act was opened by the Mayor of Gerena, Javier Fernández Gualda, who came to demonstrate once again the collaboration with this European project that operates in the municipality, and to highlight the social and environmental benefits that it is hoped to achieve. |
The Head of the Department of Engineering and Sustainability of TUSSAM attended the meeting, the public transport company of Seville, Fernando Delgado, who announced an upcoming agreement from which a bus will be handed over for the demonstration phase of the project, so that in In the near future, a percentage of the bus fleet can be supplied with this biofuel from waste oils.
The meeting was held in Gerena, in whose industrial park the SME CampoSur Investiga SL is performing the detailed engineering of a new industrial scale biodiesel production technology, which is one of the most important results that are expected. The act was opened by the Mayor of Gerena, Javier Fernández Gualda, who came to demonstrate once again the collaboration with this European project that operates in the municipality, and to highlight the social and environmental benefits that it is hoped to achieve. The progress reports of the project presented this morning by the partners of the LIFE BIOSEVILLE consortium: the University of Seville, the CARTIF Technology Center, the CIEMAT (Center for Environmental and Technological Energy Research), CampoSur Investiga SL and CTAER -the latter as a coordinating partner - before the representative of the European Commission, Filipa Ferrao, they converged towards a central point, the need to finish the works of the prototype. Everything is prepared so that next September, once the corresponding prototype is manufactured, it can begin to produce biodiesel and start up the rest of the planned phases. "There are a few months left to work against the clock to meet deadlines, given the difficulties encountered," said Filipa Ferrao, encouraging the entire team to successfully complete a project of interest within the LIFE program, an instrument of the European Union (EU) to finance environmental conservation projects and the development of community policy and legislation on environmental matters. |
LIFE BIOSEVILLE present at European Aerosol Conference 2015
European Aerosol Conference 2015 is one of the European conferences specializing in "aerosols", and the problems associated with these particles suspended in the atmosphere. In the last call of this international conference, held from 6 to 11 September in Milan (Italy), the LIFE BIOSEVILLE project was present through the participation of one of its members and the exhibition of a poster.
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Under the heading "Overview of the LIFE BIOSEVILLE project and activities focused on particle emission reduction from bus fleet in Seville", the poster was prepared by the project partners, members of CIEMAT and CARTIF entities; and was presented by Dr. Carmen Barrios Sánchez. The Presentation of the Project aroused interest among the participants for being a work focused on the particles coming from the combustion engines. LIFE BIOSEVILLE was presented as a local demonstration initiative that palliates the serious problem for the health and the environment of the particles emitted by the combustion of fossil origin in transport.
The Conference is being held under the auspices of the European Aerosol Assembly (EAA), a body that now represents 12 national or regional aerosol societies. It had 700 participants from 40 countries, from the scientific field specialized in the study of aerosols (particles). In addition, companies that sell measuring equipment for polluting gases and particles such as TSI or Testo participated. |
Dr. Carmen Barrios Sánchez, CIEMAT representative in the LIFE BIOSEVILLE Consortium
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Andalusian company joins project Life Bioseville
Our goal is to produce a new biofuel on an industrial scale from used cooking oils.
Seville, October 21, 2015. LIFE BIOSEVILLE project coordinator, CTAER (Advanced Technology Centre for Renewable Energies), has been oficially informed that Campo Sur Investiga S.L. will become the project ‘s new benificiary partner.
This will allow the project to resume its activity and meet the targets set out, which are, in general terms, the construction and demonstration of the technical and economic feasibility of a prototype to obtain high-quality biodiesel from used cooking oils in the city of Seville.
Campo Sur Investiga is a private company "dedicated to applied technological research whose main aim is to promote the use of natural resources for sustainable economic and social growth." The Andalusian company’s task will be to design, assemble and finalize the glycerin esters production prototype module , which will enable industrial-scale production of a new biofuel from used cooking oil.
Campo Sur will be joining the consortium which carries out project LIFE BIOSEVILLE, which is made up of other four entities: CTAER, as the coordinating beneficiary, the University of Seville, CIEMAT (Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology, the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) and CARTIF Technology Centre.
The biofuel obtained will be used in Seville’s urban city bus fleet and its behavior as a fuel and its environmental emissions will be measured. This will allow identification of the environmental and public health benefits compared to fossil fuels.
This is how project LIFE BIOSEVILLE will go through an experimental phase to produce a new biofuel from used cooking oils, from the oil collection process to the application of the biofuel in the urban city bus fleet. The demonstration of this phase will enable technical and economic feasibility analysis, thus boosting the business network. For more information: info@lifebioseville.es
These pictures show the Biofuels laboratory in the Faculty of Chemistry (University of Seville), where biodiesel from used cooking oils has been produced at a laboratory scale. It has interesting technical, environmental and economic advantages, which now project LIFE BIOSEVILLE seeks to take to an industrial scale.
Francisco Rodriguez (foreground) Campo Sur Investiga Representative, observing the biodiesel generator in the mentioned laboratories.
This will allow the project to resume its activity and meet the targets set out, which are, in general terms, the construction and demonstration of the technical and economic feasibility of a prototype to obtain high-quality biodiesel from used cooking oils in the city of Seville.
Campo Sur Investiga is a private company "dedicated to applied technological research whose main aim is to promote the use of natural resources for sustainable economic and social growth." The Andalusian company’s task will be to design, assemble and finalize the glycerin esters production prototype module , which will enable industrial-scale production of a new biofuel from used cooking oil.
Campo Sur will be joining the consortium which carries out project LIFE BIOSEVILLE, which is made up of other four entities: CTAER, as the coordinating beneficiary, the University of Seville, CIEMAT (Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology, the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) and CARTIF Technology Centre.
The biofuel obtained will be used in Seville’s urban city bus fleet and its behavior as a fuel and its environmental emissions will be measured. This will allow identification of the environmental and public health benefits compared to fossil fuels.
This is how project LIFE BIOSEVILLE will go through an experimental phase to produce a new biofuel from used cooking oils, from the oil collection process to the application of the biofuel in the urban city bus fleet. The demonstration of this phase will enable technical and economic feasibility analysis, thus boosting the business network. For more information: info@lifebioseville.es
These pictures show the Biofuels laboratory in the Faculty of Chemistry (University of Seville), where biodiesel from used cooking oils has been produced at a laboratory scale. It has interesting technical, environmental and economic advantages, which now project LIFE BIOSEVILLE seeks to take to an industrial scale.
Francisco Rodriguez (foreground) Campo Sur Investiga Representative, observing the biodiesel generator in the mentioned laboratories.
Image biofuels laboratories of the Faculty of Chemistry. University of Seville.
LIFE BIOSEVILLE starts
The objective is to generate on a industrial scale a new biofuel from frying oils
Can you imagine that the buses worked with biofuels from frying oils? This is already possible, but before being applied, improvements must be introduced, the result of which is to produce more efficient biofuels and through a sustainable and profitable production chain. To contribute to these improvements, the LIFE BIOSEVILLE project is carried out, which has the co-financing of the European Union and will have a final demonstration phase in the city of Seville.
Last Wednesday, October 1 was held in Seville, at the headquarters of the Andalusian Energy Agency, the launch meeting of the European LIFE BIOSEVILLE project, whose full name is: "New biofuel production technology to recover used frying oils and power the Seville's urban bus fleet ", and runs until September 29, 2017.
The consortium -which carries out the project- consists of five entities: the CTAER (Advanced Technological Center for Renewable Energies), as the beneficiary coordinator, the University of Seville, the CIEMAT (Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research, of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness), the CARTIF Technological Center and the company Campo Sur Investiga SL.
The project budget amounting to 1,543,600 €, has a European contribution of 756,870 €; and it lasts for three years, from October 1 to September 29, 2017. It is part of the new projects approved by the European Commission at the end of last April, with charges to the environmental fund of the European Union, channeled through the LIFE program. More information: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-486_en.htm
The general objective of LIFE BIOSEVILLA is "the development of an integrated and sustainable system for the valorization of frying oils generated in the city of Seville through the production of a new biofuel made up of methyl esters and glycerin esters that is more competitive and efficient".
(More information: http://www.ctaer.com)
The presentation of the project was in charge of Valeriano Ruiz Hernández, General Director and Guadalupe Pinna, Director of Promotion and Technological Transfer, and of the representatives of the partners: Paloma Álvarez and Elisa Martín of the University of Seville; David Diez and Ana Urueña from the CARTIF Technology Center; Carmen Barrios and Aida Domínguez by CIEMAT.
Contact: info@lifebioseville.es
Last Wednesday, October 1 was held in Seville, at the headquarters of the Andalusian Energy Agency, the launch meeting of the European LIFE BIOSEVILLE project, whose full name is: "New biofuel production technology to recover used frying oils and power the Seville's urban bus fleet ", and runs until September 29, 2017.
The consortium -which carries out the project- consists of five entities: the CTAER (Advanced Technological Center for Renewable Energies), as the beneficiary coordinator, the University of Seville, the CIEMAT (Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research, of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness), the CARTIF Technological Center and the company Campo Sur Investiga SL.
The project budget amounting to 1,543,600 €, has a European contribution of 756,870 €; and it lasts for three years, from October 1 to September 29, 2017. It is part of the new projects approved by the European Commission at the end of last April, with charges to the environmental fund of the European Union, channeled through the LIFE program. More information: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-486_en.htm
The general objective of LIFE BIOSEVILLA is "the development of an integrated and sustainable system for the valorization of frying oils generated in the city of Seville through the production of a new biofuel made up of methyl esters and glycerin esters that is more competitive and efficient".
(More information: http://www.ctaer.com)
The presentation of the project was in charge of Valeriano Ruiz Hernández, General Director and Guadalupe Pinna, Director of Promotion and Technological Transfer, and of the representatives of the partners: Paloma Álvarez and Elisa Martín of the University of Seville; David Diez and Ana Urueña from the CARTIF Technology Center; Carmen Barrios and Aida Domínguez by CIEMAT.
Contact: info@lifebioseville.es