Completed July 2003
The overall objective is to assist the take-up of biomass and biomass waste in China with the following goals:
- Quantify
the potential for transferring EU technologies to China for the
increased utilisation of biomass and biomass-derived waste materials.
- Establish the basis for subsequent demonstrations of such technologies in China
- Aid
the competitiveness of European industry in the Chinese market, and
help to stabilise levels of trans-national greenhouse gases.
The
project has quantified sources, distribution and availability of
biomass materials within selected Chinese provinces, and (via a
techno-economic assessment) matched these with opportunities in
existing and potential new plant. This information has been presented
to the European biomass industry, on a pre-competitive basis, via a
seminar, brokerage events in China and Internet-based dissemination to
bring together EU and Chinese industrialists and enhance industry
prospects in the face of strong US competition. Target provinces
selected are representative of a wider set of locations and hence have
good replicability. Emphasis has been placed on quantifying the
potential for utilising biomass fuels on selected sites as a prelude to
possible demonstration projects between EU industry and appropriate
Chinese counterparts. Project objectives have been realised through
activities clustered in eight work packages: Preparative Activities,
Materials Quantification Study, Technology Identification Study,
National and Regional Chinese environmental legislative issues,
National and Regional Chinese energy and environmental policy issues,
Techno-economic assessment of options, Market entry strategy,
Subproject management and co-ordination.
Sponsor
European Commission DG TREN
EU Partners:
EMC Environment Engineering, UK (Co-ordinator Andrew Minchener)
Exergia, Greece
Aston University, UK
VTT Energy, Finland
Partnering organisations in China:
China Biomass Centre, Beijing
Tsinghua University, Beijing
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