Room: Yangtze 1
Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Time: 09:00 - 10:00 CEST
Session code 6BO.3
Platforms for bio-based chemicals and polymers - Processes and applications
BeBOP Project: Ultra-high Resource Efficiency and Optimisation and Flexibility for Biomass Power-to-methanol Plant
Short Introductive summary
Even though methanol is a crucial commodity in the chemical sector, its production from fossil fuel results in about the 10% of the chemical sector emissions. Replacing fossil feedstocks with sustainable biomass represents a greener alternative. However, conventional biomass-to-methanol processes are ‘Carbon inefficient’, as they release most of the biogenic Carbon back into the atmosphere as CO2. Namely, current biomass-to-methanol routes typically convert only approx. 40-45% of the Carbon in the biomass into methanol, with the rest emitted as CO2. To overcome these obstacles, targeting over 95% Carbon efficiency, near-zero Carbon losses and competitive costs, the BeBOP project (Biomass to bio/E-methanol by Breakthrough SOEC-based Process: the BeBOP innovation - GA 101178771) concept introduces process-intensification through the use of a SOEC for syngas upgrading, alongside flexible operation with renewable electricity and advanced digital-twin modelling for system optimisation. It aims to create a pilot plant at TRL6 that is ready for replication across Europe’s biomass and chemical industry sectors.
Presenter
Martina FANTINI
EUCORE consulting, ITALY
Presenter's biography
Enthusiastic mechanical engineer with a PhD in biofuels from biomass from Politecnico di Milano and a post doc in biomass gasification and hot gas filtration. Now a PM of research projects mainly related to innovative processes and technologies for the decarbonization of industrial processes
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Co-authors:
K. Pinna, EUCORE consulting, Roma, ITALY
G. Guandalini, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY
M.C. Romano, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY
J. Ritvanen, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, Lappeenranta, FINLAND
M. Jereamias, Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT, Espoo, FINLAND
A. Denissenko, Aktsiaselts ELCOGEN, Tallinn, ESTONIA
H. Kirsch, ICODOS, Mannheim, GERMANY
S. Schmidt, ECODESIGN company - Engineering & Management Consultancy, Wien, AUSTRIA
Y. Kouhili, Institut National de l’Environnement Industriel et des Risques, Verneuil-en-Halatte, FRANCE
F. Croci, WOOD Italiana, Corsico, ITALY
M. Siedlecki, Centrum Badan i Innowacji Pro-Akademia Stowarzyszenie, Konstantynów Lódzki, POLAND
C. Di Maria, UNI- Ente Italiano di Normazione, Milan, ITALY
A. Ferrara, UNI- Ente Italiano di Normazione, Milan, ITALY
M. Toivola, ELCOGEN, Vantaa, FINLAND
Session reference: 6BO.3.3