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Emerging technologies for conversion of the organic content of Municipal Solid Waste and improving waste-to-chemicals value chains
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Call updates:
20 December 2016 14:18
The ranking of the 2016 Call evaluation was adopted by the BBI Governing Board on 15 December 2016.
The information letters on the evaluation results were sent to the applicants on 16 December 2016 and 29 Projects are invited to the Grant Agreement Preparation process.
The BBI JU Programme Office is aiming to sign the Grant Agreements by 8 May 2017.
A total of 103 proposals were submitted in response to this Call. The number of proposals for each type of action is shown below:
CSA - total 7 proposals
RIA – total 70 proposals
IA – Demo - total 20 proposals
IA – Flagship – total 6 proposals
The evaluation of the proposals will start in September and be finalised in November 2016.
Applicants will be informed about the outcome of the evaluations by mid-December 2016.
The successful proposals will go through the Grant Agreement Preparation (GAP) phase and the deadline for the Grant Agreement signature is 8 May 2017.
HEARINGS
As part of the panel review, hearings will be organised for all submitted flagship proposals, as established in BBI JU’s Annual Work Plan 2016 (section 2.3.6) to:
• clarify the proposals and help the panel establish their final assessment and scores
or
• improve the experts’ understanding of the proposals
Invitations to hearings will be sent to the flagship coordinators with all the relevant details during September.
According to the evaluation criteria for Innovation Actions (IA) and more specifically in the context of criterion ‘Quality and efficiency of the implementation’, the experts could request additional technical explanations/clarifications for the two following evaluation sub-criteria:
• Soundness of the business case and business plan
• Readiness of the technology for the implementation of the pilot phase, demonstration or flagship (TRL). Applicants should demonstrate the readiness of the technology for the implementation of the pilot phase. In particular, for flagships applicants must demonstrate that by the time of the submission of their application they have been operating relative demonstration scale plants at a significant production capacity.
Hearings will not be used to permit modifications to proposals.
The original submitted proposal remains the basis for final evaluation throughout.
08 September 2016 17:43
A total of 103 proposals were submitted in response to this Call. The number of proposals for each type of action is shown below:
CSA - total 7 proposals
RIA – total 70 proposals
IA – Demo - total 20 proposals
IA – Flagship – total 6 proposals
The evaluation of the proposals will start in September and be finalised in November 2016.
Applicants will be informed about the outcome of the evaluations by mid-December 2016.
The successful proposals will go through the Grant Agreement Preparation (GAP) phase and the deadline for the Grant Agreement signature is 8 May 2017.
HEARINGS
As part of the panel review, hearings will be organised for all submitted flagship proposals, as established in BBI JU’s Annual Work Plan 2016 (section 2.3.6) to:
• clarify the proposals and help the panel establish their final assessment and scores
or
• improve the experts’ understanding of the proposals
Invitations to hearings will be sent to the flagship coordinators with all the relevant details during September.
According to the evaluation criteria for Innovation Actions (IA) and more specifically in the context of criterion ‘Quality and efficiency of the implementation’, the experts could request additional technical explanations/clarifications for the two following evaluation sub-criteria:
• Soundness of the business case and business plan
• Readiness of the technology for the implementation of the pilot phase, demonstration or flagship (TRL). Applicants should demonstrate the readiness of the technology for the implementation of the pilot phase. In particular, for flagships applicants must demonstrate that by the time of the submission of their application they have been operating relative demonstration scale plants at a significant production capacity.
Hearings will not be used to permit modifications to proposals.
The original submitted proposal remains the basis for final evaluation throughout
19 April 2016 00:30 The submission session is now available for: BBI-2016-R08(BBI-RIA)
Horizon 2020
TOPIC : Emerging technologies for conversion of the organic content of Municipal Solid Waste and improving waste-to-chemicals value chains
| Topic identifier: | BBI-2016-R08 | ||
| Publication date: | 19 April 2016 | ||
| Types of action: | BBI-RIA Bio-based Industries Research and Innovation action | ||
| DeadlineModel: Opening date: |
single-stage 19 April 2016 |
Deadline: | 08 September 2016 17:00:00 |
| Time Zone : (Brussels time) | |||
Call identifier: H2020-BBI-JTI-2016
Topic Description
Specific Challenge:
The organic fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) represents an abundant and cheap, albeit highly variable, bio-based feedstock. The advancements in sorting in the latest years have made bio-waste an extremely affordable feedstock (even available at negative price under some circumstances), attracting the interest of the biochemical industry. However, due to its high complexity in composition as well as the variability during the year, it is a challenging feedstock to be processed for bio-based applications.
Indeed, its utilisation has up to now been limited to mainly the production of biogas for co-production of thermal and electric energy and compost.
Conversion processes performance (in terms of yield, selectivity and titre) is hindered by the high variability of the input feedstock, resulting in the need of tailored sorting and pre-treatment of the feedstock. The latter steps reduce the presence of inhibitors for the downstream steps. However, the costs of the sorting and pre-treatment steps, combined with the need of high performance separation and purification, often hinder the overall economic feasibility of a waste-to-chemicals value chain.
Scope:Develop and validate at lab scale innovative processes for conversion of the organic fraction of MSW into chemical intermediates aiming at:
- maximising the yield of recovery of intermediates from the substrate;
- minimising the presence of inhibitors in order to enable achieving profitable yields from the conversion of intermediates into products.
The innovation should focus on production of intermediates at high yield and low impurity level.
Proposals should take into account seasonal and random variability of the MSW content and address several compositions of the organic fraction, focusing on representative case studies taking into account local economic, social and climate conditions.
The projects should cover any Technology Readiness Level (TRL) from 3 to 5. In the case of a pilot scale project (TRL 5), proposals should present a credible cost estimate for the proposed processes with a preliminary assessment of their competitiveness when scaled up.
Proposals should also include an environmental and socio-economic assessment, for example with an LCA. In particular, when targeting TRL 5, proposals should include an LCA in order to evaluate the environmental and socio-economic performance of the developed processes.
Expected Impact:- Improved yield of intermediate extraction/recovery from the organic content of MSW by 20% with respect to state-of-the-art or exceed 80% yield of intermediates.
- Validated removal of inhibitors to such an extent that it allows cost-effective downstream processing.
- Validated process by comparison of the resulting product yield with the one obtained from lignocellulosic biomass. The difference in yield should not exceed 10%.
- Contribution to the BBI JU Key Performance Indicators (KPI), specifically:
- Creation of at least 1 new cross-sectorial interconnection in bio-based economy clusters (KPI 1).
- Set the basis for the creation of at least 1 new bio-based value chain (KPI 2).
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