Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1512997 | Energy Procedia | 2012 | 6 Pages |
Energy economics increasingly develop awareness of Efficiencies. From extraction through transformation, storage, distribution, etc. to the use of energy efficiency is topic. Some of it is addressed by going local in feedstock and distributed in generation, also opening new opportunities for energy use of biomass, usually limited to logistic constraints.Hydrogen recently has taken a prominent position in contributing towards flexibility of Renewable Energy generation and could potentially save a part of the 80% crude oil energy loss for transformation into gasoline for the transportation sector.Splitting organic waste and biomass into Hydrogen and Carbon in a bio-refinery, flexible product outputs could be enabled, as demonstrated at the European Centre for Renewable Energies in Guessing, Austria. By applying our thermo catalytic splitting of Carbon Hydrate gases at 55% of the energy needs of SMR only, no scarce water needs to be used nor CO2 is generated.Bio refineries could uplift energy efficiency of biomass use, from today's limitation to electricity and heat to flexible synthetic fuels or electricity on demand, potentially providing economic back-up solutions for volatile renewable energy generation. A model for a 200.000 capita MSW installation will be introduced.