Thursday 12 June 2025 | 08:30 - 16:00 | Room: Parallel 3

Hydrogen Technology and Industry-Based Biorefineries

IETS Task XI is hosting a workshop emphasizing the case study of hydrogen production for biorefineries. A series of speakers will addressing the hydrogen state-of-the-art from different perspectives. What is the status of the hydrogen economy? What are the barriers to project development and deployment? What are emerging hydrogen production technologies of interest? During the afternoon of the workshop, the morning information will be linked with Net-Zero/Negative emissions, metrics for long-term strategic decision-making, and sustainable industrial symbiosis.

Conference registration is mandatory.
Please note that this programme may be subject to alteration and the organisers reserve the right to do so without giving prior notice.

 

 

Agenda

8:30 am – 9:00 am CET
Welcome, roundtable introductions, meeting objectives, review of workshop agenda
Paul Stuart (CA)
Department of Chemical Engineering – Polytechnique Montréal / EnVertis Consulting

9:00 am – 9:45 am CET
Life Cycle Design for New Products
• Tools to assess products from biomass in an integrated holistic life cycle assessment concept (HILCSA) to support decision makers in business, industry and policy
• Modeling biomass competition in future energy and further production systems (BENOPTex model)
• Case studies employing this approach
Daniela Thrän (DE)
Institute for Infrastructure and Resource Management / University of Leipzig and Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

9:45 am – 10:30 am CET
I-BIOREF Platform for Decision-Making: Application to the Hydrogen Context
• Overview of the I-BIOREF decision-making platform, including decision-making metrics
• Application of I-BIOREF to the hydrogen production context
• Strategic issues to be addressed for advancing the case of hydrogen
Marzouk Benali (CA)
Industry Group – Biorefinery/Hydrogen, CanmetENERGY – Natural Resources Canada

10:30 am – 10:40 am CET – Health Break

10:40 am – 11:20 am CET
Low Carbon Hydrogen Deployment at Scale – Catching up with Industrial Reality
• Hydrogen – Market readiness level and evolution of drivers
• Technology maturity – Next barriers to overcome
• Geopolitics and economic models
Philippe Tanguy (UK)
Hynergy Consulting Ltd

11:20 am – 12:00 am CET
Producing Hydrogen from Biomass has an Obvious Scale Issue
• The challenges of establishing a large scale plant producing hydrogen from biomass
• Challenges of hydrogen transport and distribution logistics on a large scale
• Solutions!
Patrice Mangin (FR)
H₂V Energies / Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

12:00 am – 12:40 pm CET
Integration of Green Hydrogen and CO2 into Biorefinery Concepts
• Linking systems analytics, especially LCA, and technologies/development/de-risking for decision-making
• Green hydrogen as part of the circular economy
Michael Harasek (AU)
Institute of Chemical Engineering – TU Wien

12:40 am – 1:00 pm CET Lunch (break to collect, and eat in meeting room)

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm CET
Linking the different dimensions of the green hydrogen context to net-zero/negative emission biorefineries
Bettina Muster (AU)
Institut für Nachhaltige Technologien – AEE

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm CET
Linking the different dimensions of the green hydrogen context to decision support for biorefineries and ex ante scenarios
Paul Stuart (CA)
Department of Chemical Engineering – Polytechnique Montréal
EnVertis Consulting

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm CET Health Break

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm CET
Linking the different dimensions of the green hydrogen context to the opportunity for industrial symbiosis
Jorge Costa (PT)
Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências – ISEC

3:15 pm – 4:00 pm CET
Wrap-up discussion
Marzouk Benali and Paul Stuart, Task XI Co-Managers

4:00 pm CET Meeting adjourned

Organiser

Conference registration is mandatory.
Please note that this programme may be subject to alteration and the organisers reserve the right to do so without giving prior notice.