Programme

10h00  CIBE - Clarisse Fischer, Secretary General
Every 5 years, standards are reviewed in order to adapt them to the market and its evolutions, and to correct restricting points which prevent the use of standards or standard classes. Today, standards published in June 2004 on woodchips and pellets in particular are being reviewed for a new publication this year. New standards on thermally treated biofuels and woodchips for industrial use are also being developed.
This review is an important opportunity for the whole wood energy sector in order to upgrade and adapt the standards to the French market, be it for the production or the consumption.
So the CIBE, in partnership with Propellet, RAGT and the SNPGB (National Syndicate of Wood Pellet Producers) works in coordination for the current review of the solid biofuels standards (woodchips and pellets in particular) or ISO 17225.
This situational analysis and the next steps will be presented.

10h00   Biogaz in Brittany : from production to wheel - André Crocq, Région Bretagne - Conseiller régional délégué à la transition énergétique et Gilles Petitjean, ADEME - Directeur Régional 

10h00   Biogaz in Brittany : from production to wheel - André Crocq, Région Bretagne - Conseiller régional délégué à la transition énergétique et Gilles Petitjean, ADEME - Directeur Régional 

Moderator : France Biométhane - Cédric de Saint-Jouan, Président

10h20   Strengthening the competitivity of the French biomethane sector, ENEA consulting - Laurent Blaisonneau
10h40   Optimising the cost of feedstocks (intermediary crops), AAMF - Sylvain Marsac Arvalis
11h00   Optimising the energy recovery from biogas, Agribiomethane - Damien Roy
11h20   Developping the training of operators and optimising maintenance, Méthatlantique - J Becot 
11h40   France Biométhane - Cédric de Saint-Jouan, Président, GRDF - Sylvain Frédéric, Project Manager Biomethane, GRTgaz - Alice Saurin, Director Development for Renewable Gas, France gaz renouvelables - Jean-Marc Onno, Administrateur, ENGIE - Olivier Guerrini, Industrial Director - Renewable Gas
12h45   Exchange with the floor

10h45  CIBE - Stéphane Cousin, Technical Advisor
The Ministry has published on 3rd August 2018 the transposition orders of the 2015/2193/UE directive of 25th November 2015 related to the emission limitation of some pollutants in the atmosphere from Medium Combustion Plants or MCP. The latter is applicable to combustion plants with nominal thermal power from 1 to 50 MW. The directive sets the rules aiming to limit atmospheric emissions of SO2, NOx and dust, and also rules aiming to monitor the CO emissions.
Its transposition in French law is ensured by a decree and 5 orders which come into effect on 20th December 2018.
The main developments analysed by the CIBE will be presented.

11h30  CEDEN, Biomasse Normandie and/or ECO-MOBILIER
For around twenty years, the UE has established directives and regulations in order to integrate, from the conception of goods put on the market, the conditions of their end of life.
The objective is to minimize the streams but also to facilitate the reuse, the recycling of the material and the energy valorisation. The members states have adopted in that regard different strategies; in France, the enlarged recycling responsibility of the producer (REP) generalises through the creation of Eco-organisms, which gather professionals of each sector and which guarantee materially these objectives.
In the furniture sector, the State has approved Eco-Mobilier, which takes charge of the end of life management of the Furniture Elements Waste (DEA) of the general public, and a second Eco-organism has been approved for the DEA of the professionals (VALDELIA).
In this respect, Eco-Mobilier is planning by 2023 the collection of nearly 1 000 000 tons of DEA, of which about 2/3 are made of wood. Nearly 230 000 tons per year should be oriented to industrial and municipal heating plants. Although various programmes have been conducted before (SRBTP and ECIRBEN), this type of waste is today still not very well known. Eco-mobilier has wished to raise this problem by launching a large campaign for the characterisation of wood DEA at the national scale.
It has then asked the Biomasse Normandie Association and the CEDEN office to analyse in more details the composition of the end of life woods from the furniture sector. The state of progress of this study will be presented.

12h15​  CIBE - Elodie Payen, Project Manager, AILE - Marc Le Treïes et/ou ABIBOIS - Aurélien ROUAULT
The wood energy organisers are local actors assigned by local authorities and ADEME in order to support a consistent development of the territorial wood energy sectors (municipal and industrial). Support to the supply structuring, technical and financial estimations of heating plants projects, knowledge of the progress of the installations and actors in place. Come and (re)discover their expertise and the people who work in your sector!

14h00  This conference will highlight the data on available resource in Brittany and Pays de Loire regions and will present the progress of the sector regarding the management of the quality of woodchips supply :
- figures of the resources in the West, consumption and perspectives: results of the study of the Britanny resource in wood and evolution of the forests
- ensure the quality of the interventions: the Bois Bocage label enables to guarantee a sustainable management of bocage wood
- ensure a quality supply: Chaleur Bois Qualité +: certification of companies and guarantees for the end-consumer

Moderator : Chambre régionale de l'agriculture Pays de la Loire - Cecile Hubert (tbc)

14h00   Hygienization Study results, AILE - Adeline Haumont
14h25   Dutch Case study, Host or méthode Elinsga (tbc)
14h50   Danish Case study, Dansk Fagcenter for Biogas - Jakob Lorenzen - DIrector
15h15   Exchange with the floor

14h45  Moderator : Aurélie LEPLUS - AILE

Expertise cooperation in the wood energy sector, a lever for the development of wood heating plants projects and for their operational improvement : this conference will highlight, through testimonials, various forms of mutualisation of developing or operating wood heating plants.
- Sébastien Pinaud, Renewable Heat Pole mission Head, Regional Centre for Renewable Energies (CRER) will highlight various examples of pooling
- Pierre Usureau and Aurélien Despret, energy technicians at SDEC 14 (Calvados Departmental Energy Syndicate) will present the pooling service of general contractor for local wood district heating
- Laurent Le Devedec, energy manager at Lorient Agglomération will present the SPL (local public company) which will raise the future conurbation district heating investments

Moderator : AILE, Armelle Damiano

15h30   Context and the stakes of compression to trailor gas, GrDF - Bastien Praz, National Biométhane Team
15h50   Dutch case study : Gas network between several farms and one industrial partner, CCS - Ruurd van Schaik, Consultant
16h10   British case study : Compression to trailer - Portsdown Hill (Portsmouth), SGN - Alan Midwinter, Commercial Director
16h30   Cobiogaz project, SEM Breizh - Martin Hanrot
16h50   Methagris du Blavet project, Group representative (tbc), S3D - Audrey El Habti, Responsable du pôle méthanisation
17h15   Exchange with the floor

16h00  Round Table : this round table will assemble industrial project developers, a project consultant and an adviser to examine the means available to industrialists looking to develop a wood energy solution

Moderator : Marc Le Treïs - AILE
The presentation of support mechanisms to companies will be followed by a round table which will include developers, consulting engineers, consultants in order to present the available means for industrials who wish to study a wood energy solution. The exchanges will provide the opportunity to wonder about the interests that it can bring and about the reasons which can bring a professional to be interested by the subject.
· Guillaume Desmier – Project Manager ENGIE-COFELY :  or Bruno Bonhomme – Projects Director ENGIE-COFELY
· Lucía Roca Fernández-Vizarra – Operation Director GESTAMP Biomass
· Bruno BRETEL – Managing Director – Founding partner Utilities Performance

17h00  Actors from the field of mini-cogeneration from biomass will provide their viewpoint on the current status of this sector highlighted with examples and will debate future perspectives. The format is a mini-presentation from each company followed by a round-table debate.
Mini-Green Power - Gonzague de Borde, Development Director
Naoden - Cyril Terrien, Sales Manager
AHCS (représenant de Spanner, de) - Adrian Haller, CEO
LCEET (représenant de Volter, fi) - ­­Nicolas Krabal, Project leader

18h00  The Awards ceremony for the Innovation Competition for Biogaz Europe, Bois Energie et ReGen Europe takes places in the confefrence Room, Hall 8. Everyone is warmly invited to attend.

Moderator : Biogaz Vallee, Gregory Lannou, Director

09h30   The PRODIGE programme, Chambre régionale de l'agriculture Bretagne - Pierre Quideau
10h15   Testimonial AAMF, SARL Methalica- Samuel Morand
10h25   Experience from the field of maintenance, Service Union - Pierre Barré, Engine Manager, Jean-Marie Lamour, Maintenance Service Manager
10h40   Round Table : Has cogeneration got an AD future ? Enogia - Benoit Paillette, Sales Director, Clarke Energy - Christophe CHAUVEL, Sales Manager
11h00   Exchange with the floor

Biomass- to-fossil fuel solid susbstitue : black pellets for drop-in coal replacement

09h50  IBTC - Michael Wild, President
10h00  Européene de Biomasse - Jean-Baptiste Marin, Director
10h10  CENER - Javier Gil, Directeur Biomasse, Director of the  Biomass Department
10h20  Round Table

TORREFACTION
The term torrefaction immediately conjures up aromas of roasting coffee beans being turned slowly by a large paddle. Torrefaction of biomass from wood or agri-residues also involves a thermal process (of typically between 200 to 400°C), producing a dark solid biofuel. It is less suited to be drunk in the morning to get the day started but by contrast, makes for a much better coal substitute than coffee, thanks to its homogenous properties and high calorific value.

IBTC (Belgium)
The International Biomas Torrefaction Council comprises more than 20 major international industrial players and has as it central mission the promotion and “use of torrefied biomass as an efficient energy carrier which can speed up the global transition towards a carbon-neutral energy system by 2050”.
ibtc.bioenergyeurope.org

EUROPEENE DE BIOMASSE (France)
Européene de Biomasse is a French company taking big strides towards making the steam cracked biomass vision a reality on an industrial and international scale. Investing more than 100m€ in its first new plant, production capacity will be 120 000T / pa of black pellets as a drop-in coal substitute for power stations from a process that is optimized to recover its own heat and power.
www.ebiomass.eu

10h50  BTG  Bioliquids/Technip FMC - Anton van ‘t Slot
11h10  Pyrum Innovatgion - Gerard Perrin
11h30  Haffner Energy - Christian Bestien, Directeur Business Développement

BTG-Bioliquids (the Netherlands)
Biomass residues and various solid waste streams can be converted to liquid bio-oils via pyrolysis, the thermochemical decomposition of biomass through rapid heating in the absence of oxygen … and later refined to produce equivalent liquid fossil fuel susbtitutes, petrol, diesel etc.
BTG-BTL is a Dutch company that today takes lignocellulosic biomass and via their own patented pyrolysis process arrive at a dark-brown liquid, best known as pyrolysis oil. BTG-BTL’s pyrolysis process converts up to 70 wt.% of the biomass feedstock into bio-oil and the remaining part into char and gas (which is used to generate heat and power for the plants needs).
BTG-BTL’s Empyro plant converts 5 tons per hour of wood residues into pyrolysis oil, process steam and electricity. In 2017, Empyro passed the 20 million liter annual production mark, making it the world leader in terms of pyrolysis oil production.
https://www.btg-btl.com

PYRUM INNOVATION (Germany)
Thermolysis is the thermal dismantling of organic substances under oxygen shortage. During this process, waste is transformed into oil, gas, and coke.
Pyrum today runs its own industrial plant processing up to 1 t/hr of waste streams (typically rubber) to produce a bio-oil that can be used as is, or refined further downstream. This equates to into 5000 ta of waste rubber converted into 2,500 tons of oil, 1900 tons of coke and 600 tons of gas emitting only 5 tons of CO 2 compared to 13 000 T if following the incineration route.
https://www.pyrum.net 

HAFFNER ENERGY (France)
Haffner Energy has developped and is commercializing a proprietary and highly innovative biomass to hydrogen pyrolysis procedure, known as Hynoca® (meaning “HYdrogen NO CArbon”) The procedure promises a number of key advantages compared to traditional methods for producing hydrogen :
- renewable resources, carbon neutral process
- cost effective renewable hydrogen. On-demand and on-site production to avoid expensive logistics = ultra-competitive hydrogen, ie prices up to 60% lower than current day market prices
- local consumption and production. Easy-to-install stations suitable to urban and suburban locations
https://www.haffner-energy.com/hydrogen

Moderator : Chambre régionale de l'agriculture Bretagne, Carine Pessiot

11h15   Efficiency and autonomy, SOLAGRO - Celine Laboubee 
11h45   What becomes of the organic matter, Chambre régionale de l'agriculture Pays de la Loire - Emeline Tignon
12h05   Social and economic impacts, CER France - Patrice Lelievre
12h25   Testimonial, AAMF - François Trubert, EARL de Reims
12h40   Exchange with the floor

11h50  AILE, ReDirect project - Jacques Bernard, Project Manager Biomass Energy for farmers
12h10  VT Green - Thermochemical biomass valorisation via Biogreen's technology : fist applications and perspectives, Vincent Xavier, Technical Director

RE-DIRECT (France)
The European project RE-DIRECT brings together 11 partners from BE, DE, FR, IR and the UK who are developing a holistic approach to promote the efficient use of natural resources and materials by converting residual biomass into carbon products and activated carbon at smart regional decentralised units.
RE-DIRECT will make use of the proven technology for Integrated Generation of Solid Fuel and Biogas from Biomass (IFBB) to convert 20 000t of unused biomass in a circular economy approach into region specific carbon products, among them activated carbon.
The solid fraction emanating from the IFBB is further processed by drying, using the surplus heat from the biogas combustion before passing through the pyrolysis and activation processes :

• the dried solid fraction is carbonised using a slow pyrolysis reaction. Surplus heat is produced by combustion of the pyrolysis gases
• the produced biochar is directly activated using water vapour, produced with the surplus heat of the pyrolysis reaction
• the final product, activated carbon, can be applied for example in waste water cleaning

http://www.nweurope.eu/re-direct

VT GREEN (France)
VT GREEN brings together the competences for the recovery of biomass from agriculture, the wood sector or industry, by thermochemical conversion (torrefaction, medium and high temperature pyrolysis). VT GREEN deploys a wide range of services for the development of innovative products and solutions for various areas of application (agriculture, environment, bio-based materials, biomolecules …).
www.vtgreen.fr/

GRTgaz - Robert Muhkle, Project Director « Liquid biomass 4 Biomethane »
Paul Scherer Institute / Treatech - Dr Gaël Peng

Hydrothermal Gasification of liquid wastes
A lesser known bioenergy route to biomethane is the hydrothermal gasification of liquid wastes whereby the trigger is the supercritical point of water at 374°C / 221 bar.
A potentially large and under or non-exploited resource of liquid wastes (<25% dry matter) could be valorised to generate biomethane which would arrive out of the process conveniently at the correct pressure for direct injection into the network :

• grey water
• liquid agricultural wastes
• animal fat
• industrial effluents
• digestate from an AD plant
• algae

GRTgaz (France)
GRTgaz owns and operates the longest high-pressure natural gas network in Europe. GRTgaz also acts as a facilitator for the development of supply streams for renewable green gas.
www.grtgaz.com

Paul Scherer Institute (PSI) / Treatech (Switzerland)
TreaTech Sarl in collaboration with the Paul Scherrer Institute aims to put on the market a catalytic hydrothermal gasification process from liquid waste such as sewage sludge. This innovative technology can convert all organic compound into biogas (50-60 %vol. of CH4, 30-40 %vol. of CO2, 10 %vol. of H2) in very short residence times (<15 minutes) and by reaching a net energy efficiency (biomass-en-CH4) between 60-70%. Regarding the mineral fraction of the biomass, it is concentred and recovered in order to be transformed into fertilizer. The building of a pilot unit (100kg/h) will start in 2019 at the Paul Scherrer Institute and it will be operational in 2020 in order to evaluate the gasification performances of various liquid waste types (eg digested waste, non-digested wastes). The aim of the pilot is to reach a technological readiness level (TRL) between 6 and 7.
https://www.psi.ch

Moderator : AILE, Armelle Damiano

14h00  The AD sector adapts itself to market constraints, AILE – Armelle Damiano, Director
14h05  Example of possibilities of partnerships with a SEM (semi public entity), SEM Energy'IV - David Clausse, Director
14h15  Example of the ENERFEES project, Janzé (35), SAS ENERFEES - a representantative
14h25  Example of the METHAMAINE project, Meslay-du-Maine (53) - Benoit Dutertre, project shareholder
14h35  Participative funding, Energie Partagée - Suzanne Renard, project manager in methanisation
14h45  The various forms of participative funding to meet the financing and appropriation challenges, GRDF - Pierre-Yves Eon
14h55  BPGO - Yann Guézel (to be confirmed)  
15h05  Unica Conseils - Nicolas Mallein
15h15  Exchanges with the floor

14h00  Waga-Energy - Vincent Tisseire, Business Development Engineer
14h20   le Groupe Paprec - Morgane Gorria, Biological recovery and anaerobic digestion Manager

WAGA-ENERGY (France)
WAGA-ENERGY has developed, based on >10 years development, the world’s first unit to upgrade landfill biogas to grid quality biomethane at a cost competitive with fossil equivalent, via membrane separation coupled with cryogenic distillation.

In so doing, the millions of m³ of landfill gas which are wasted every hour worldwide and which represent ≈ 5% of greenhouse gases emissions, can be captured in the form of a competitive renewable substitute for natural gas.

WAGA-ENERGY fills the gap between landfill operators and utilities

www.waga-energy.com/

Moderator :  Philippe Hugeron, Club Pyrogazéification, President

15h00  FEDEREC - Pascal Léon, Président Filière Bois et Palelettes
15h15  Xylowatt - Pièrre Evrard, Commercial Director
15h30  ETIA - Olivier Lepez, CEO
15h45  Leroux et Lotz - Paul Clemens, Commercial Director
16h00  CHO Power - Marc Lefour, Business Development Director
16h15  Round table : What role for pyrogasification in the French renewable gas portfolio ? 

Pyrogasification
Recycling of waste where there is a positive carbon benefit, into a renewable resource is evidently the priority, prior to its consideration for other ends. What however remains non-recyclable needs to be recovered for maximum value and waste to energy provides a very efficient solution.
Pyrogasification involves high temperature thermal treatment of renewable biomass or non-renewable waste in the absence of oxygen. The resultant gas (syngas), liquid and coke can be produced in varying proportions and volumes according to a number of determinable parameters. 
Whilst the most frequently practiced energy recovery method today of syngas involves its direct burning in a CHP motor, a secondary pathway involves the further process of methanation in order to produce a grid compatible gas for direct injection. The key attraction from an energy management perspective of this upgraded syngas is that it provides an opportunity to store and call up this calorific value according to demand. This “pyrogasification to biomethane/recovered gas*” route is set to make a major contribution to attaining the French 100% renewable green gas target for 2050 (from 15 to 40% depending on scenario).
Incineration by contrast, implies combustion in the presence of oxygen and the immediate recovery of the heat value of the incinerated feedstock.
http://www.gazeification.info/  
https://www.clubpyrogazeification.org/fr/les-procedes/ 
https://www.ademe.fr/expertises/dechets/passer-a-laction/valorisation-energetique/dossier/pyrolyse-gazeification/principes-pyrolyse-gazeification 

* « Biomethane », when this syngas comes from biomass or renewables streams (EnR)
« Recovered gas » when this syngas comes from SRF non-recyclable fraction or non-recyclable waste.

FEDEREC (France)
FEDEREC is the Recycling Professional Federation. Created in 1945, FEDEREC brings together 1300 company members, from very small businesses to big groups, spread out on the whole French territory, and with activities such as collection, sorting, recovery of industrial and municipal waste or recycling feedstock trade.
« Today, wood recycling players are waiting for the start of class B wood combustion projects. » Pascal LEON, President of the wood and pallet sectors.

XYLOWATT (Belgium)
Xylowatt has accumulated over the years the most direct experience of any developer of gasification solutions in Europe. Its most recent release, the NOTAR® v.3 indicates a new level of attainment for the company in syngas production.
A world first : The Namur Hospital (CHU UCL) – Godinne site becomes the world’s first hospital mainly fed by green energy from biomass gasification. The CHU will benefit from this unit to cover a part of its needs in electricity (40%), heating (65%) and cooling (40%).
As it does not rely on wind nor sunshine, the new unit will produce day and night in summer and from local renewable biomass: 620 kW of electricity, 1100 kW of heat and 680 kW of cold. Its energy resources will include woodchips from natural wood (branches and cleaning from motorways sides) and recycled wood (not usable pallets and packaging wood).

LEROUX ET LOTZ (France)
L&L Heat & Power has achieved international recognition for its combustion and gasification systems, developing innovative solutions for producing energy from all types of solid fuels whether biomass or waste derived.
Investing heavily in R&D, Leroux et Lotz’s project Innov Energy opens up a new pathway for the future to convert all types of biomass and waste streams to syngas via pyrogasification. Out of this R&D experience, a new industrial pyrogasification plant on the Bonnefoy industrial site in the East of France will see 45 000 T/year of biomass and SRF produce power of 51 600 MW_eh / year and heat 51 600 MW_th/year.

ETIA (France)
ETIA is known the world over for its proven BioGreen© torrefaction and pyrolysis process converting biomass, plastics, and waste into energy and useful products. The first unit was installed in 2003 and over 90% of its business is in the export market.
In the pipeline today is the extension of the high-temperature pyrolysis Biogreen© process to become a technology to produce Synthane®, synthetic methane, from waste and biogenic resources by the addition of purification and methanation processes.
A collaboration with GRTgaz was launched in July 2017 to construct a pilot plant dedicated to produce synthetic methane from waste and biogenic resources and to validate the opportunity of injecting synthetic methane into transmission grid.

CHO Power (France)
CHO Power designs, builds, and operates electricity production plants from SRF and biomass through its own gasification process. Onsite energy recovery via gas motors provides an excellent electrical output (two times higher than a vapor cycle).
CHO Power designed, built and operates the 1st plant of this kind (at European level, and even at global level) in Morcenx (Landes region, France). This plant, CHO Morcenx, is designed to recover 58,000T/year of industrial waste and forestry woodchips and it presents an installed capacity of 11 MWe.

15h30   "Conception and Construction of AD plants" certificate, Club Biogaz - Arnaud Diara, CH4 Process - Maxime Brissaud
15h50   "AD plant manager" specialist professional certificat, AAMF - Bertrand Guerin
16h05   Charter AAMF - Sébastien Boudet
16h20   Round Table : site operators, AMO, MO, Constructeurs
16h45   Exchange with the floor