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LINKING HIGH TECH AND HUMAN TOUCH
SUSTAINABILITY AND BIOMASS AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE
GREEN ENERGY INITIATIVE MEETING 27 JUNE 2012
ANNEMARIJE KOOIJMAN
LINKING HIGH-TECH AND HUMAN TOUCH
Route 14: building experience with multidisciplinary cooperation in the
field of biomass
UT expertise, opportunities for your own research?
Which organisation forms would trigger you and support you in setting up
and building up multidisciplinary research in the field of biomass (GEI)?
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ROUTE 14 BIOMASS PLATFORM
Interfaculty team: Sascha Kersten (TNW), Joy Clancy (MB), Devrim Yazan
(MB), Annemarije Kooijman (TNW), team members MB, TNW, CTW, ITC
Development of a tool for the biofuels industry that can be used to make pro-active
decisions: environmental, social, economic sustainability
Proposal submitted: Bioenergy Supply Chain Integration (BioSCinT)- overcoming
market barriers for second generation biomass
Overview of frameworks and tools for the assessment of sustainability of biomass
Value chain analysis of bagasse
Biomass production from perspective of smallholder farmers
Identification of opportunities at University of Twente for multidisciplinary
cooperation in the field of biomass
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF
BIOMASS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE
Biomass: production feedstock, processing, transport, use of product
Social Science research:
impacts of feedstock production, decisionmaking in chain, governance of
chain and energy transition
Technical research:
which feedstocks, viability and efficiency of production and use, scale of
operation
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MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES
IN AND AROUND BIOMASS CHAINS
Feedstock
•Social: employment,
food prices
•Technical/economic:
supply logistics,
•Environmental:
biodiversity, GHG
emission
Pretreatment
•Social: location and
organisation
•Technical: scale of
technology, need
for maintenance
•Environment/
economic: logistics,
efficiency
Governance
of direction(s) and pace
distribution of impacts
Refinery
•Technical;
Efficiency of
conversion
•Environmental:
emissions,
possibility to use
all material
streams
Use (eg transport,
heat)
•Technical;
Efficiency of
conversion
•Environmental:
emissions,
possibility to use
all material
streams
Choices and structures in the
chain
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ASSESSING OR DISCUSSING SUSTAINABILITY
Level:
Product, process, feedstock, value chain, policy or strategy, region,
business.
Purpose:
Certification, comparison for business internal choice, comparison for
business external information (marketing or customer/ actor influence),
identification of fields of improvement.
Tools and instruments:
LCA, process assessment (ISO), input output modelling, scenarios,
analysis of interests or convictions of stakeholders, economic
modelling, game theory etc.
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RELEVANT EXPERTISE AT UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE
Production process: TNW, CTW
Green chemistry: TNW
LCA analysis (waterfootprint): CTW
governance models, niche management, support of implementation
process: MB /IGS
Study of social issues, development: MB
Economic and business modelling, logistics: MB, CTW
Geo-information science, measuring of vegetation: ITC
Philosophy of society -technology interaction; ethics, understanding
processes of societal transformation: Behavioural Science
Research methods for social data gathering and analysis
Sector structures, networks, political influence
Green Energy Initiative
Sustainable campus
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
Multiple disciplines, multiple researchers
Starting point: should each be expert in their own field of expertise or
support generalists?
Barriers to multidisciplinary research
different scientific approaches,
different target groups (industry, government, science)
- implications for expected outputs, objectives of research, practical use
How to define an innovative research topic?
How to create synergy?
How to build up a field of multidisciplinary expertise?
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BUILDING UP A STRUCTURAL MULTIDISCPLINARY FIELD
OF EXPERTISE
ORGANISATION FORMS
Starting point: ‘outward’ looking experts with multidisciplinary experience
define topics and moderate synergy
AND/OR
Calls for proposals define topics, synergy is not planned but facilitated
through organised discussion
Small/ad hoc: joint education/PhD/ postdoc supervision and small
projects facilitate growth of multidisciplinary expertise and shared
language between disciplines
AND/OR
Structure for expertise: one UT approach as basis for linking research
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ARE YOU INTERESTED?
Which research questions in the field of biomass are relevant for yourself
and your contacts (especially stakeholders in the chain)?
Which expertise do you have/which fields of expertise would you like to
link to with regards to sustainability (of biomass)?
Which organisation forms would trigger and support you?
[email protected]
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