Portuguese Tech Institute to Produce Advanced Biofuels from Tree-Pruning-Waste

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January 28, 2020

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by João Ernesto Fonseca (Euractiv/Lusa)A project to use the waste from pruning vines and fruit trees to produce advanced biofuel is being developed at the BLC3 Campus of Technology and Innovation in Oliveira do Hospital, the campus president said. EURACTIV’s partner Lusa.pt reports.

The BLC3 association “is developing a circular economy project in the agricultural sector, where it aims to use the waste from agricultural activities, such as pruning waste from olive trees, vines and other fruit trees” to “produce advanced biofuel,” the president of the BLC3 Technology and Innovation Campus, João Nunes, told Lusa news agency.

The project, “with the potential application also to the forestry sector”, also recommends that “waste from crops” be used in the production of biofuel.

Production will be conducted “in an efficient way and with carbon emission levels much lower than from fossils”, João Nunes highlighted.

The advanced biofuel produced by this method is “similar and equivalent to agricultural diesel”. “Agriculture is very important for the economy, and if we can integrate the efficient use of resources, it has a potential for growth, in terms of competitiveness”, the president continued.

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“Agricultural cultivation systems, which generate high quantities of biomass, have the potential and interest to produce their fuel” to use in their machinery, João Nunes concluded.

The BLC3 Campus of Technology and Innovation is a non-profit association, founded in 2010. It is a “new model of development of research activities and technological intensification of excellence, incubation of ideas and companies, and support to the economic fabric in inland and rural regions”.

It is the only organisation in Portugal created for the development and industrialisation of biorefineries (second and third generations), the bioeconomy and ‘smart regions’, with a focus on the circular economy, according to the BLC3 website. READ MORE

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