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project info
Start date: 1 June 2015
End date: 30 June 2018
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 2 519 200,00 €
EU contribution: 999 600,00 € (39,68%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2021
Managing authority: Région Normandie
beneficiary

ERDF — CNRS — BIOENAIRGY — INVEST

The decline in fossil resources has led to the renewal and emergence of new, collective and, above all, individual heating methods involving the combustion of solid bio-resources, particularly of the wood-based, agricultural or more interesting wood-based industries, but also liquid with its combustion easier to control, in particular biofuels. Emissions to air, particulate matter and pollutants from these fuels need to be studied very thoroughly to reduce their quantity and prevent their impact on the environment and public health. For example, two categories of organic pollutants from incineration processes can be distinguished: carcinogens, mutagens and reprotoxics, whose atmospheric releases are regulated such as dioxins and furans (0.1 ng TEQ/Nm3) or certain polycylic Haromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), and so-called ‘emergent’ organic compounds. Emerging pollutants include pollutants of chemical or biological origin most often saris regulatory status. They are not strictly speaking new molecules, but newly sought molecules whose impacts are still poorly known. They are the subject of growing interest and the subject of numerous studies in the field of environment and water in particular. Combustion can also be a source of such compounds and their presence in emissions must be absolutely detected right now. Examples include chloro and brorno HAPs or bromodioxins, which have recently been detected in ash, soil and snow and which appear to be toxic to dioxins.Inorganic pollutants can also be emitted during the combustion of bioresources, in particular when recovering adjuvant wood waste such as heavy metals: lead, arsenic, cadmium copper or chromium and these in more or less toxic forms.The laboratories involved in the project already have recognised expertise in the study of combustion and analytical chemistry. These, multidisciplinary and complementary, will allow the emergence of a true centre of expertise and research in the analysis of pollutants resulting from the combustion of bio-based fuels. In order to achieve this project, the pole requires the installation of materials of excellence in addition to those already acquired. The objective of the BioénAlRgy project is to bring together the academic teams of COBRA, CORIA and CERTI EP around the physisochemical analysis of combustion pollutants. To carry out this research and its developments, it will be nécessaire:D’acquérir equipment to reproduce the combustion of new heating fuels from the wood-based sector: wood pellets, paper bricks, densified wood logs..., and to study the possibility of using new deposits from the agricultural sector such as flax flakes or more interesting from the recycling of class B wood... It is also envisaged to study the combustion of liquid biofuels. equip laboratories with sampling system with dilution probe in order to carry out a representative sampling of particulates and gaseous pollutants.to equip the laboratories with the latest innovative technologies to perform both the most complete screening of air and soot, the precise identification of pollutants and their quantification, even in trace conditions.

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