The vision of BIO2CHP is to enable small-scale decentralized energy production from raw residual biomass waste, allowing agro-food industries to exploit the maximum of their feedstock while reducing their environmental footprint.
The technology is based on long basic & applied research that took place at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, aiming at exploring the potential of using methods & techniques applied in the exhaust gas after-treatment of automotive diesel engines, to “clean” the product of biomass gasification, i.e. syngas.
A small-scale gasifier and filtering system developed by BIO2CHP converts solid organic residues into a clean gaseous fuel. In addition to producing syngas the technologies of gasification and internal combustion can be combined under an automated control system to allow continuous energy production on a small scale. The control system enables remote access and monitoring.
Stefanos Tsiakmakis, a co-founder of Ideas Forward, is also co-founder of BIO2CHP. The activity of BIO2CHP in decentralized energy production provides a synergy playground to test ICT technologies such as industrial IoT systems for remote access to energy production units, cloud-based metering data management and blockchain-based certification for energy production and CO2 emissions.
