In a future, low carbon
economy and bioenergy can play a significant role and contribute substantially
to the global energy supply and to a Society entirely independent of fossil
fuels as programmed by 2050.
Within this scope many
Countries invest resources and set up ambitious strategies towards the
achivement of the large share of the 20% renewable energy target by 2020.
Many experts predict that energy from biomass shall increase in the next
years by 66%, meaning that biomass use ( at least for electricity production)
will double compared to 2010.
However a long list of utmost important and pending challenges is still
evident and facing the Research Activity:
How processes are effectively designed, how they properly fit into a grid
of sustainable power supply that includes wind, geo, hydro and solar.
How we should use our agricultural resources in a sustainable and ethical
way avoiding a negative impact on another global challenge such as scarcity
of food.
Can we demonstrate that biomass is a secure an sufficient supply of energy
for the future?
Are we able to treat urban biowaste so that we may convince the community
to a more effcient recycling? Is Biowaste bound to become more important
than Biomass in a continuosly increasing developed society ?
Is the conversion from biomass to bioenergy, biofuel or bio-product achieving
a real reduction of greenhouse gas emissions ?prof. Katarina Kohse- Höinghaus, University of Bielefeld, pres. of Combustion Institute, Germany
(ICONBM Scientific Committee Chairmen)