EUBCE 2026 - BIOMASS CONVERSION TO INTERMEDIATE BIOENERGY CARRIERS AND SUSTAINABLE BIOFUELS

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This session presents recent advancements in the development of innovative processes for producing high-quality fuels or precursors from diverse biomass-derived feedstocks. Contributions highlight progress in catalytic materials, reaction mechanisms, and upgrading strategies that improve the efficiency, stability, and selectivity of biofuel production pathways. The works cover a broad spectrum of approaches, from hydrotreating and hydrodeoxygenation to thermal upgrading, process modeling, and performance evaluation of renewable fuels and intermediates. By integrating insights from catalysis, process engineering, and fuel characterization, the session provides a comprehensive overview of emerging solutions that support the transition toward sustainable, low-carbon liquid fuels.

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This session presents recent advancements in the development of innovative processes for producing high-quality fuels or precursors from diverse biomass-derived feedstocks. Contributions highlight progress in catalytic materials, reaction mechanisms, and upgrading strategies that improve the efficiency, stability, and selectivity of biofuel production pathways. The works cover a broad spectrum of approaches, from hydrotreating and hydrodeoxygenation to thermal upgrading, process modeling, and performance evaluation of renewable fuels and intermediates. By integrating insights from catalysis, process engineering, and fuel characterization, the session provides a comprehensive overview of emerging solutions that support the transition toward sustainable, low-carbon liquid fuels.

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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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The poster session will show elements of various topics in pyrolysis, including added value of pyrolysis, fundamental aspects and modelling of pyrolysis, as well as the catalytic performance of pyrolysis.

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This poster session covers technical advances in transforming biomass and biogenic wastes into hydrogen and techno-economic analyses.

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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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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 poster session highlights the cutting edge of Hydrothermal Processing (HTP), focusing on how high-pressure water environments can transform waste into high-value energy. The research is primarily split into three advanced pathways: Gasification, Liquefaction, and Carbonization.

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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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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 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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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 poster session covers the assessment of the use of hydrogen in renewable fuel production: technical advances, new processes, and techno-economic assessments.

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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 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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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.