EUBCE 2026 - Oral Sessions

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This plenary session addresses the development and maintenance of sustainable value chains for biomass and its utilisation in the emerging bioeconomy and will include topics on public perception, sustainability certification pathways and an assessment of the EU’s environmental footprint in terms of the emerging bioeconomy.

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This session is planned to cover different aspects of forest biomass resources for the production of biomass for contributions to the growing bioeconomy and includes techno-economic considerations and the impacts on reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

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This oral session presents advancements in technologies for biomass combustion, with the aims of enhancing conversion efficiency, heat recovery and fuel flexibility.

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This oral session highlights emerging bioprocess strategies that transform diverse biomass resources and industrial side streams into high-value products.

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This session focuses on agricultural and forest residues for the production of biomass for conversion to bioenergy, biochemicals and biomaterials and covers geospatial methods to assess biomass availability for subsequent pyrolysis in the Mediterranean region, a comparison of different forms of residue bases biomass for pyrolysis and bioenergy generation in Canada with added carbon capture and storage.

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Gasification processes for polygeneration, including the use of biochar for syngas purification and a classification model for syngas applications in this oral session.

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This oral session explores innovative chemical strategies that convert biomass and waste-derived feedstocks into high-value biochemicals.

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These studies shift the focus toward agro-ecological strategies, using nature’s own systems (like bacteria and mixed planting) to make bioenergy production more efficient and climate-friendly.

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This oral session concerns presentations in the field of integration of gasification technologies with downstream gas cleaning and upgrading to clean syngas.

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The oral session demonstrates a shift toward a circular bioeconomy, where industrial waste (like lignin) and agricultural byproducts (like biosilica) are not discarded but are instead engineered into high-performance, safe, and sustainable alternatives to fossil-derived materials.

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During this session experiences with certification of sustainability will be shared from a government, industrial and global trader perspective. The session contains reflections on certification as an instrument for proving of compliance with sustainability criteria. There is room to discuss improvements and the best way forward, for all perspectives.

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This oral session addresses biomass feedstock potentials and incorporates feedstock availability for the production of low-carbon fules in Australia, an energy system model to determine sustainability of European sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) targets and the general supply and demand of biomass in the EU.

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This session explores cutting-edge strategies for integrating renewable biofeedstocks into existing fossil refinery infrastructures, with a focus on catalytic co-processing, FCC co-feeding, and advanced modeling approaches. Presentations will highlight how pyrolysis oils, biogenic intermediates, and hybrid feedstock blends behave under refinery conditions, and how process innovations can maximize biogenic carbon incorporation into fuel products. The session also examines the carbon-intensity implications of co-processed fuels, providing insights into lifecycle performance, refinery adaptation pathways, and sustainability metrics. Together, these contributions offer a comprehensive view of the technological, operational, and environmental dimensions shaping the transition toward low-carbon liquid fuels through co-processing.

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This oral session addresses the development of platforms for bio-based chemicals and polymers at somewhat higher technology readiness level (TRL), focussing on processes and applications / applied concepts.

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This plenary session addresses and models the availability, quality, and optimal use of wood as a biomass resource, and includes biomass crop potentials in the EU, cascading of wood use in a sustainable bioeconomy and low-ILUC industrial biomass crops.

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This oral session covers various aspects of integrated agricultural management practices aiming to make contributions to improved environmental sustainability.

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This oral session highlights applied strategies for transforming diverse industrial and agricultural by-products into valuable materials and sustainable solutions.

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This oral session focuses on how modern farming and land-management strategies can increase biomass production while simultaneously fighting climate change and restoring the environment, and as it shift's the focus from laboratory science to the real-world economics and logistics of the bioeconomy.

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This plenary session addresses the broad question of integration of technologies in bioenergy value chains with particular focus on building resilience and the expansion of bioenergy technologies internationally.

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This oral session looks at assessments of biomass potentials from cropping systems and includes examples from France and Spain and in one case includes the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

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These research topics highlight the 'upcycling' frontier - turning difficult waste streams like leather scraps and coffee grounds into high-tech materials for arsenic adsorption and environmental cleanup.

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This oral session addresses the critical 'missing links' in the bioeconomy: how to count carbon accurately, how national leaders are adapting, and how to mathematically prove where biomass should be used to save the most carbon dioxide.

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This oral session addresses the valorization of insect processing waste as a source of biobased chitin, and investigates how cellulose fibres from pulps with different composition (cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin) can be upcycled into aerogels. Also explored are the integration of microalgae cultivation with the valorization of industrial wastewaters for sustainable biofuel production and the use of organic waste feedstocks to produce bioethanol and biogas.

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This oral session session addresses the development of platforms for bio-based chemicals and polymers at somewhat lower technology readiness level (TRL), focussing on more basic research.

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These four oral research presentations explore how biomass can be 'teamed up' with other renewable technologies (like solar) or integrated into local grids to provide reliable, fossil-free energy.

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This oral session concerns presentations in the area of special topics regarding gasification characterization, catalyst behaviour and gas cleaning and upgrading studies.

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This oral session highlights the latest scientific and technological advances in upgrading biocrudes derived from pyrolysis and hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). Contributions explore how catalytic hydrotreating, thermal conditioning, continuous processing, and hydrogenation strategies can transform highly oxygenated, unstable biocrudes into refined, drop-in compatible fuels. Emphasis is placed on understanding the influence of process severity, catalyst formulation, and feedstock characteristics on fuel quality, stability, and yields. Also addressed are operational challenges, such as deoxygenation, heteroatom removal, and product fractionation, as key drivers toward producing high-performance biofuels suitable for aviation, marine, and road transport applications. Together, the presentations offer a comprehensive overview of emerging pathways enabling the transition from raw biocrudes to high-quality, refinery-ready renewable fuels.

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The oral session comprises of innovations in processes that are supporting better biorefineries capable to produce at lower cost.

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This oral session explores innovative concepts and emerging strategies for designing fully integrated biorefineries capable of producing advanced biofuels and sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) at commercial scale, including multi-feedstock conversion pathways, process optimization frameworks, and catalytic upgrading routes that enhance efficiency, flexibility, and carbon performance across the entire value chain. Contributions cover systems-level modeling of biomass supply and process integration, harmonized sustainability assessment, catalyst-enabled production of high-performance fuel intermediates, and the role of biorefinery configurations in enabling SAF deployment. Together, these works illustrate how technological integration, from feedstock to final fuel, drives the development of next-generation biorefineries that are economically viable, environmentally sustainable, and aligned with global decarbonization targets.

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This oral session will look at different methods, tools and frameworks applied in bioenergy products including sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).

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This oral session presents innovations in concepts of integrated biorefineries.

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This session focuses on the development and practical implementation of a sustainability framework for biobased chemicals and materials. The discussion aims to bridge policy ambitions and industrial practice by bringing together perspectives from public authorities, public organisations and industry leaders. The session will explore key questions around criteria setting, market implications, regulatory alignment and the role of industry in shaping workable and credible sustainability standards for the bio-based economy.

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This Plenary session covers the wide scope of biorefineries, converting many different kinds of biomass to a wide range of biomaterials and biochemicals.

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The oral session focuses on some of the production parameters for algae and aquatic biomass production systems. This group of research initiatives highlights the huge versatility of microalgae as tools for environmental cleanup, nutraceutical applications, and high-performance biofuels.

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This oral session aims to present works that range from wider issues of biomass use to social implications and novel methodologies.

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This oral session showcases advanced biorefinery techniques, using everything from wood pulp to mussel scraps to create high-performance industrial materials and biodegradable plastics.

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This oral session presents recent advances in biomass pyrolysis, including process design for recovering valuable organics, demonstration of a thermo-catalytic reactor for maritime fuels, solar-driven fast pyrolysis results, and TG-MS kinetic insights from rice husk decomposition.

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This oral session explores cutting-edge assessments of emerging bio-based technologies and circular solutions. Presentations cover comparative life cycle analyses of petrochemical alternatives, prospective LCA for industrial biotechnology, starch-based bioplastics versus conventional plastics, and integrating hydrothermal carbonization into anaerobic digestion. Join us to discuss sustainability, economic viability, and innovation pathways for a low-carbon future.

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This oral session looks at methods to evaluate resource efficient applications, lands and use of biomass for energy and other non-food applications.

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The main presentation in this oral session examines advances in modeling and upscaling biomass pyrolysis, featuring a 3D multiphysics analysis of particle irregularities, integrated biorefinery routes for producing calcium acetate from forestry biomass, practical lessons from biocarbon process scale-ups, and a techno-economic assessment of temperature effects in solar-driven pyrolysis for negative-emission biofuel and biochar production.

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This oral session examines cutting-edge sustainability assessment approaches for bio-based systems. Topics include methodological challenges in LCAs and their policy relevance, strategies for sourcing sustainable biomass, and evaluating Europe's global environmental footprint. Join experts to explore robust frameworks, address critical gaps, and advance evidence-based decision-making for a sustainable bioeconomy.

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This oral session presents innovative approaches to biogas production and purification, including the use of microorganisms as biomarkers, hydrothermal carbonisation, and electro-chemical anaerobic digestion.

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This oral session looks at the integration of renewable hydrogen with biofuel production. Important questions of flexibilization and carbon availability are addressed and examples of optimizing process integrations are shown.

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This oral session explores how advanced modelling, machine learning, and system-level analysis enable the optimization and integration of biogenic carbon pathways, from biomass combustion and biochar production to biogenic CO2 utilization and microbial lipid synthesis, within broader low-carbon energy and land-use systems.

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This oral session deals with biomethane potentials from different regions and feedstocks, and technological optimisations.

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This oral session presents innovative pathways for pretreatment of diverse biomass inputs and their use for different application. A specific focus is on liquid fuels.

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This oral session addresses biodiversity and ecosystem resilience in bioenergy and bio-based systems. Topics include best practices for nature action plans, forest use impacts on drought patterns, soil-microbial interactions under different management regimes, and global biodiversity conservation scenarios. Join experts to explore strategies for safeguarding nature within a growing bioeconomy.

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These oral research presentations focus on Hydrothermal Carbonization (HTC, a thermochemical process that uses heat and water under pressure to turn 'wet' waste into the coal-like solid fuel referred to as hydrochar) and also on Hydrothermal Liquefaction (HTL, that converts wet biomass into biocrude, here related to SAF).

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This plenary session presents cutting-edge innovations driving the next generation of liquid biofuels and renewable fuel intermediates. The contributions highlight significant progress across key thermochemical and hybrid conversion pathways, from supercritical water gasification of complex biomass residues to the catalytic upgrading of challenging HTL biocrudes for jet-fuel applications. The session also explores flexible Power-and-Biomass-to-X technologies that integrate reversible solid oxide systems for the production of methanol and other energy carriers, demonstrating how electrification and biomass utilization can be combined within resilient, market-responsive fuel platforms. Together, these plenary presentations offer a comprehensive view of advanced liquid fuel technologies, illustrating both the scientific breakthroughs and system-level innovations shaping the future of sustainable, low-carbon energy.

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This oral session will present innovative pretreatment technologies, including biomass feeding, hydrothermal liquefaction and for biochar production.

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This oral session explores how biomass systems, particularly those centred on wood resources, can contribute to durable climate mitigation through Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) and related land-based strategies. Presentations examine opportunities to retrofit existing bioenergy infrastructure, evaluate feasible BECCS deployment pathways, and assess the carbon implications of rising wood demand in Europe's emerging bioeconomy.

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This oral session covers the use of biogas combined with hydrogen as feedstocks to produce sustainable fuels, as weel as different possibilities to either upgrade biogas to biomethane or transform it into liquid fuels and how economic assessments show the feasibility of commercialization.

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Deployment of bioenergy and biobased materials is happening in dynamic markets. Markets influenced by international developments, and regulations and project developers have to adjust to these markets. These presentations will show the limitations and opportunities!

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This oral session examines how methane-related climate metrics, bioenergy system design, and land restoration strategies collectively shape progress toward climate targets. Presentations address how different approaches to measuring methane emissions may influence the role of biomethane, and evaluate the climate performance of emissions from small-scale heating across diverse EU bioenergy pathways. Additionally, the session explores the integrated biogas-pyrolysis systems capable of achieving carbon-negative outcomes in rural communities, as well as environmental assessments of peatland restoration strategies.

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The studies focus upon in this oral session include optimizing Hydrothermal Liquefaction (HTL) and Supercritical Water Gasification (SCWG) of biomass feedstock, technologies that turn wet waste into liquid oil or gas.

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The panel will bring together experts to share their perspectives and experiences on how their organizations contribute to innovation within their respective sectors and national contexts. Discussions will highlight how these efforts support sectoral development, stimulate economic activity, and ultimately contribute to wealth creation. The roundtable will be structured around two guiding questions: 1) How do you approach innovation within your organization, and what differentiates your approach? 2) How does your work contribute to economic value creation, both today and future? How do you address associated challenges?

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This plenary session is intended to cover some of the main processes used to promote ease of conversion of biomass to bioproducts, by either pre-processing biomass or integrating different technologies into a process chain, while in some cases managing to capture carbon for either storage or use elsewhere.