The areas of work and specific objectives on which the project worked during the year are:

Waste-to-energy

• Characterization of municipal waste production and national MBT and W-t-E facilities: updating and organizing the databases collected in previous years in the RSE Bioenergy DB; status analysis of the national supply chains examined
• Life Cycle Costing of the waste-MBT-SRF-energy supply chain: application of the analysis to selected typical facilities representative of the national context, according to the criteria identified in the previous year
• Life Cycle Assessment of the waste-MBT-SRF-energy supply chain: application of the analysis to selected typical plants representative of the national context, according to the criteria identified in the previous year
• Legislation:annual scientific contribution to the work of national (CTI) and international (CEN; ISO) committees in technical standardization pertaining to energy recovery from waste and solid recovered fuels (SRF)
• International Activities: annual scientific contribution to studies and dissemination activities promoted by IEA Bioenergy Task 36 on technological and governance(support to decision makers) aspects pertaining to using waste for energy

Bio-hydrogen and bio-products from agro-industrial residues

• Bio-H₂ from rice husk residue: completion of the experimentation, started in the previous year, on the producibility, from the husk residue, of the energy vector hydrogen by fermentation (dark fermentation)
• Biorefining of rice husk residue: technical/economic/environmental assessment of a possible biorefining supply chain (production of bio-H₂and bio-products)<

Biogas-to-biomethane upgrading

• Biogas-to-biomethane upgrading technology: completion of field validation (on RSE BioMetUp pilot plant,) of zeolite solid sorbent performance; zeolite upgrading process modeling; tri-generative plant simulator (biogas-to-biomethane upgrading process with zeolite coupled with cogeneration engine)
• Legislation: scientific contribution to the annual activities of national (IGC) and international (CEN) committees working on the technical standardization of biomethane and its feed-in

Combustion of agricultural residual biomass

• Technology for direct combustion of corn stover bales: creation and installation at a stakeholder site of the pilot plant designed in the previous year
• Modeling simulations: completion of the simulation, started in the previous year, of the performance of a fire tube boiler to which the designed stover bale combustion system will be functionally connected

Pollutant emissions from biomass plants

• Formaldehyde emissions: completion of the experimental campaign to verify the performance of measurement methods (EPA 323, spectrophotometric; VDI 3862-2, HPLC) initiated in the previous year<
• Pollutant emission abatement technology: production of the innovative combined flue gas treatment device (particulate and NOx) designed in the previous year
• Legislation: scientific contribution to the annual activities of national (UNI) and international (CEN, ISO) committees, working on the technical standardization of emissions and air quality measurement methods.