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BEST - Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH

Address

Inffeldgasse 21B
8010Graz
Austria

Description

BEST - Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH is a K1 Competence Center in the Austrian COMET-program. Together with our national and international partners, we bundle scientific and industrial excellence to create the critical mass needed to perform successful research and apply the findings as marketable technologies and services.

As a link between academic research and industrial technology development, our vision is to develop and demonstrate sustainable and circular biorefinery processes and technologies for producing green gases, green liquid fuels, and green products, all of which will support the transition to a climate-neutral, zero-fossil-carbon economy. Consequently, the resource basis will be extended to include organic residues, wastes, and carbon dioxide. Conversion technologies will be enhanced or redesigned to ensure their efficient and economical operation, and to allow the value cycles based on new feedstocks to be integrated into the system. By using our excellent experimental facilities, ranging from lab to pilot and demonstration scale plants, our goal is to conduct applied research of the highest scientific quality.

We apply advanced digital methods for technology development, and for the basic automation, optimization, and monitoring of the operation of individual technologies and entire plants. With the help of holistic and technology-neutral planning tools, we ensure that biorefineries and energy supply technologies are optimally integrated into a sustainable, renewable energy system.

We are active in a number of national and international networks, not only but also to support SMEs:

At regional scale, we support the work of:

  • the Lower Austrian ecoplus and its Technopol programme
  • the Styrian Green Tech Cluster
  • the Upper Austrian Clean Tech Cluster
  • ...

At the national scale, we are member or contribute to the work of:

  • the Austrian Biomass Association
  • the Austrian Pellets Association - Pro Pellets Austria
  • WIVA PG
  • Green Energy Lab
  • ...

At the international level, we contribute to:

  • ETIP Bioenergy
  • ETIP - Renewable Heating and Cooling
  • Various IEA TCPs
    • Bioenergy
    • Advanced Motor Fuels
    • Solar Heating and Cooling
    • District Heating and Cooling
    • ...
  • HyWaste (German SME network)

 

BEST - Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH

BEST - Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH

Contact Person

Walter Haslinger
CSO & CTO / General Management
walter.haslinger@best-research.eu
office@best-research.eu
+43 502378 9420
is SME contact

Equipment

We own and operate a number of unique infrastructures, to which we grant access under fair conditions. These infrastructures and equipments are:

  • Syngas Platform Vienna (https://www.best-research.eu/content/en/infrastructure/Syngas_Platform_…):
    The Syngas Platform Vienna is an industry integrated infrastructure consisting of a fuel flexible 1 MW demo-scale dual fluidized bed steam-blown syngas producer, raw and fine gas cleaning units, a 1 barrel / day Fischer-Tropsch pilot plant and a growing number of downstream synthesis and syngas upgrading plants (FT, mixed alcohols, aqueous phase reformer, ...). The Syngas Platform Vienna serves to investigate single unit operations within the process chain biomass or waste to value or the whole process chain.
  • GreenCarbon Lab (https://www.best-research.eu/content/en/infrastructure/greencarbon_lab):
    The core facilities of the GreenCarbon Lab are a lab- and a pilot-scale pyrolysis unit, which serve to investigate (develop, evaluate, modify, optimize) simple biorefinery concepts for the production of sustainable carbon products from biomass, biogenic residues and selected waste streams. In addition to the experimental facilities, also related analytical equipment is available in order to characterize the feedstock, the process, and the products.
  • Other analytical, experimental and measurement facilities (https://www.best-research.eu/content/en/infrastructure/technical_equipm…):
    A variety of other experimental, measurement and analytical facilities is availble which allows to in-depth investigate grate / fixed bed thermochemical conversion processes and analyze feedstock and gaseous and solid (ash and particles) conversion products. The experimental facilities comprise amongst others a single particle reactor, a laboratory batch reactor and a drop tube furnace.

Services

BEST aims to support technology development by experimental development, testing and design studies. To do so, we provide access to our infrastructures and offer our expert knowledge in terms of method selection and in terms of technology development. More information on the specific scope of services we provide can be found under each research area of the Centre.

BEST offers its services in the frame of bilateral contracts and within collaborative research projects.

Other activities

Demonstration of value and process chains

Service for Industry and SMEs

Yes

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