FINAL PUBLICATION

BIO4A FINAL PUBLICATION

This free publication provides a summary of the main results obtained by the different research and demonstration components of BIO4A and their relevance for the current context of SAF deployment.

Topics:

• Full scale industrial HVO-SAF production from waste feedstock
• Market analysis of waste oil feedstock
• Market outlook: vision, potentials, limitations, and strategy for upscaling
• SAF production in the EU
• Cultivation of Camelina in semi-arid land with a high risk of desertification
• and soil carbon sequestration
• Mapping the potential Camelina yield and environmental sustainability in the EU Mediterranean region for advanced biofuel production
• Biochar as a sustainable management practice
• Sustainability assessment of low-ILUC feedstock SAF value chains at scale

RESOURCES

Public documents, deliverables, articles, and all the communication materials developed by BIO4A.

• D 1.1 | Technical Specification of Feedstock Quality
• D 1.3 | ASTM Certified aviation biofuel production
• D 2.1 | Biochar Units for Agroresidues
• D 2.2 | Results and product characterization for woody and agro-residue chars
• D 2.3 | Compost agronomic protocol optimization trial
• D 2.6 | Selected camelina variety protection at EU level
• D 2.7 | Mapping of sustainable potential for Mediterranean agricultural land
• D 2.8 | R&D on pretreatment report
• D 2.9 | R&D tests and product characterization
• D 2.10 | Results on Lysimeters trials
• D 2.11 | Results on optimal Biochar and Compost agronomic protocol
• D 3.3 | RED II status report 1st
• D 3.4 | RED II final status report
• D 4.1 | Process Technological performance
• D 4.2 | Preliminary Environmental Assessment
• D 4.3 | Final sustainability assessment
• D 4.4 | Final Report on the assessment of environmental sustainability indicators
• D 4.5 | Socio-economic sustainability assessment
• D 4.6 | KPIs monitoring report
• D 4.7 | Assessment of socio-economic sustainability indicators for advanced biojet fuel value chains
• D 5.1 | Business Case
• D 5.2 | Report on market dynamics
• D 5.3 | Waste Feedstock Market Analysis
• D 5.4 | Regulatory Framework Proposal
• D 5.5 | Market Scaling Strategy
• D 6.3 | Preliminary Plan for Exploitation and Dissemination of Results
• D 6.6 | Mid-Term Project Management Plan
• D 6.7 | Mid Term Plan for Exploitation and Dissemination of Results
• D 6.9 | Final Project Management Plan
• D6.12 | Project website (ETA)

• Production and characterization of co-composted biochar and digestate from biomass anaerobic digestion
  Casini D., Barsali T., Rizzo A.M., Chiaramonti D., 2019
• Policy measures for sustainable sunflower cropping in EU-MED marginal lands amended by biochar: case study in Tuscany, Italy
  Chiaramonti D., Panoutsou C., 2019
• Assessing marginality of Camelina (C. sativa L. Crantz) in rotation with barley production in Southern Europe, a modelling approach.
  Schillaci et al., 2023 –  Accepted article in: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment ELSEVIER

• Fuelling Clean Aviation for Europe- Brussels 19 April 2023
• Low ILUC risk biomass feedstock for SAF and soil carbon sequestration in Mediterranean marginal land 
  BIKE & BIO4A webinar 23 February 2023
• SAF and Low-ILUC risk biomass feedstock: the BIO4A project
  David Chiaramonti , 31st European Biomass Conference and Exhibition (video)
• The BIO4A project – Drought resistant oil crops and biochar application in dry Mediterranean areas for SAF, soil health and carbon sequestration
  David Chiaramonti, Workshop: Production of low ILUC Risk biomass feedstock, March 2023 Tessaloniki GR.
• Market Uptake and EU-funded R&I action on Sustainable Aviation Fuels, 9 May 2022, Side event of EUBCE 2022. 
• Advanced sustainable BIOfuels for Aviation – BIO4A, Tommaso Barsali – EUBCE 2022
• Use of Biochar as Soil Amendment on Camelina Sativa L. Crantz Yield for Sustainable Oil Production,
  Tommaso Barsali and Francesca Tozzi, 6 June 2023, EUBCE 2023 Bologna

Public project deliverables

D2.1 Biochar unit for agroresidues developed and ready for tests, with a capacity of 40-50 kg/h inlet feedstock (RE-CORD)

D2.2 Results and product characterisation, for both woody and agroresidue chars. Mix of biochar and compost ready for preliminary tests (RE-CORD)

D3.3 RED-II status report 1st (SKYNRG)

D4.2 Preliminary Environmental Assessment (CENER)

D5.1 Business case (SkyNRG)

D5.2 Report on market dynamics (SkyNRG)

D6.3 Preliminary PEDR & related annexes (ETA)

D6.12 Project website (ETA)

D6.6 Mid-term Project Management Plan (RE-CORD)

Publications related to the project

Production and characterization of co-composted biochar and digestate from biomass anaerobic digestion
(Casini, D., Barsali, T., Rizzo, A.M., Chiaramonti, D.)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-019-00482-6
 
Policy measures for sustainable sunflower cropping in EU-MED marginal lands amended by biochar: case study in Tuscany, Italy
(Chiaramonti, D., Panoutsou, C.)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2019.04.021