Project

AquaFUELs - Algae and aquatic biomass for a sustainable production of 2nd generation biofuels

Acronym
AquaFUELs
Code
41B06709
Duration
01 January 2010 → 30 June 2011
Funding
European funding: framework programme
Research disciplines
  • Engineering and technology
    • Power electronics
    • Energy generation, conversion and storage engineering
    • Chemical product design and formulation
    • Biomaterials engineering
    • Biological system engineering
    • Biomaterials engineering
    • Biomechanical engineering
    • Other (bio)medical engineering
    • Environmental engineering and biotechnology
    • Industrial biotechnology
    • Other biotechnology, bio-engineering and biosystem engineering
Keywords
biology algae aquatic biomass LCA taxonomy biofuel economics
 
Project description

AquaFUELs aims to draw the detailed, comprehensive and concrete picture of the actual status quo of EU and international initiatives on algae biofuels. Based on this work, AquaFUELs will successively elaborate an overall assessment on the technology, and identify major research and industrial needs.