Room: Poster Area
Date: Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Time: 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Session code 5AV.2
Innovation in advanced processes for biofuels production: materials, mechanisms, and performances (part 1)
Greening Europe’s Refineries: Vision of the ABATE Project to Produce Aviation and Maritime Advanced Biofuels in Existing Refineries
Short Introductive summary
The EU’s climate neutrality and circular economy goals demand the scaling up and de-risking of novel technologies to accelerate the decarbonization of European energy industry. In this context, the Horizon Europe funded ABATE project is working to industrialise a sustainable value chain by integrating thermochemical and biochemical technologies for the valorisation of lignocellulosic residual and non-food/feed biomass into cost-competitive, carbon-neutral Advanced Bio-based intermediATEs (ABATEs) to directly substitute fossil hydrocarbons in conventional oil refineries to be used by the aviation and maritime sectors The thermochemical pathway was validated in technology readiness level (TRL) 5 via the Horizon 2020 BioMates project, which involved a two-step valorisation of lignocellulosic biomass, rendering a bio-based intermediate which was effectively co-processed with fossil-based intermediates rendering high bio-content transportation fuels. The ABATE project builds on the outcomes of the BioMates project by improving and scaling up the thermochemical pathway to TRL6-7 as well as integrating it with bio-chemical technologies to valorise all by-products.
Presenter
Athanasios DIMITRIADIS
Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Chemical Process & Energy Resources Institute, GREECE
Presenter's biography
Dr. Dimitriadis Athanasios is a Collaborative Researcher at CERTH (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas) in HydPro group from 2010 until now. His research activities involve the production and evaluation of advanced fuels. Research Gate RG Interest score=1265, h-index-18.
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Co-authors:
S. Bezergianni, CERTH Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, GREECE
A.C. Johansson, RISE Research Institute of Sweden, Boras, SWEDEN
D. Kubicka, UCTP, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
C. Schmitz, BP EUROPA, Hamburg, GERMANY
M.Z. Stummann, TOPSOE, Copenhagen, DENMARK
C.M. Osmundsen, TOPSOE, Copenhagen, DENMARK
D. Laprune, VINCI Technologies, Paris, FRANCE
V. Goujard, VINCI Technologies, Paris, FRANCE
I.A. Dallo, CENER, Navarra, SPAIN
P. Friberg, Pyrocell, Stockholm, SWEDEN
R. Diaz-Chavez, Imperial College London, UNITED KINGDOM
H. Keller, IFEU - Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Heidelberg, GERMANY
A.M. Rizzo, Re-cord, Florence, ITALY
L. Paschke, Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Munich, GERMANY
G. Alessandro, Greenovate Europe, Brussels, BELGIUM
I. Vudirreta, GAIA, Basque Country, SPAIN
Y. Evans, Imperial College London, UNITED KINGDOM
Session reference: 5AV.2.2