Innovation in bioeconomy: a reality put into practice

The Spanish Biomass Association together with the CIRCE Technology Center launch the INtercamBIOM network with the aim of providing companies in the biomass, bioenergy and bioproducts sector with tailored information so that they can adopt technologies or processes already available or explore avenues to invest in innovative processes and products.

The push that Europe and Spain are giving to circularity, decarbonization and the use of renewable energies and biomaterials is beginning to generate a revolution in the field of bioeconomy: new ways of obtaining biomass, valorizing it or generating bioproducts are being explored. , biomaterials or sustainable energy.

But what technologies or processes are really available to take advantage of? How to undertake an investment in a process that is unusual? How to open business for a new product? Issues that a company must resolve before committing to a change in the direction of its business. 

“The INtercambiom network aims to provide the biomass, bioenergy and bioproducts sector with tailored information on its website, through notifications via WhatsApp or email, so that they can take the decisive step,” explains Daniel García, head of innovation at AVEBIOM .

The network already has five documented practices of very singular interest : from the collection of the vine shoot in the predoda, before it falls to the ground, to a process of washing and cleaning earth and stones from the pruning and uprooting of fruit trees and forests in an economical way, through the carbonization of straw to obtain a dense and clean fuel suitable for intensive industry uses. Obtaining high added value biocarbon from wet remains such as sludge or organic matter from garbage, and the conversion in the same facility of fatty olive pomace into energy and biocarbon suitable for enriching soils, are innovative practices that are already underway , documented with videos, photos, interviews and technical data.

The INtercamBIOM network is open to receiving all practical innovation in bioeconomy that is already available.