Europe’s Sustoil project to host April conference in Italy: aims to optimize bioenergy planning, address challenges

In England, the Sustoil project said that it will host a conference in April 2009 to advance the plans of its 23-partner group in 10 European nations and the US.  European group to optimize the development of bioenergy crops into fuel, power and heat, food, bioproducts, while also optimizing use of sidestreams generated during farming and harvesting. The group addresses issues of minimizing transportation and storage costs as well as development of advanced bioenergy schemes.

The group’s April meeting in Foggia, Italy will include tours of an algae-to-biodiesel research facility. The two-year project is led by the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence at the University of York and is funded by the European Commission.

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