🇫🇮 €2.5 million from the Kolli Foundation for bioeconomy and hydrogen research
The Finnish economy would benefit significantly from combining hydrogen and bioeconomy expertise. A €2.5 million donation from the Koll Foundation will help researchers at LUT University to find new solutions for biorefining.
The Marjatta and Eino Kolli Foundation is donating a total of €2.5 million to LUT University and LAB University of Applied Sciences, to be used for three different purposes at the Lahti campus: research in separation technology at LUT, new education in building and urban engineering at LUT, and education in wood technology and construction at LAB.
The largest part of the donation will go to LUT’s bioprocessing-focused research in separation technology, which will be supported by the Koll Foundation with €350,000 per year for five years. The support will enable researchers to develop science-based solutions for modern biorefineries to make even better use of sustainably available biomass, both in Finland and abroad. One possibility would be to use renewable electricity to make products while producing hydrogen, which would provide huge new growth potential for biorefineries.
“With hydrogen, a biorefinery could produce about twice as many products with the current amount of biomass. This would make the production of bio-based products both cheaper and more sustainable, as there would be no need to increase the amount of logging,” says Kristian Melin, Professor of Process and Plant Engineering in Biorefining at LUT.
According to Melin, Finland has three key strengths for producing high value-added bioeconomy products. These include forest industry by-products, the second cheapest electricity in Europe and the available land area.
Originally published on 5 February by BotH2nia.
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