Forest residues can be an important raw material for future Swedish HVO production
The demand for hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) has increased in recent years and it is now the dominant liquid biofuel…
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News | 2020-12-14
The demand for hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) has increased in recent years and it is now the dominant liquid biofuel…
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News | 2020-12-14
Each year, the collaborative research program Renewable transportation fuels and systems carries through a conference presenting results from the…
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News | 2020-12-01
As a result of the introduction of the reduction obligation for petrol and diesel fuels in 2018, demanding an increase…
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News | 2020-10-13
The increasing use of biofuels in the transportation sector is an important pillar in Swedish and Finish policy strategies to…
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News | 2020-09-07
Recently, we announced the first six new projects within the collaborative research program Renewable Transportation fuels and systems. With…
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News | 2020-06-18
Hydrogen in multi filling stations. Car travels and paths to climate neutrality. LBG in shipping. Efficient…
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News | 2020-06-16
According to the EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED), biomass means the biodegradable fraction of products, waste and residues from biological…
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News | 2020-05-13
The f3 coordinator group usually get together twice a year for meetings hosted by one of the f3 partner organisations.
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News | 2020-05-11
22 applications for a total worth of 30 Million SEK were registered in the latest call for projects within the…
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News | 2020-03-05
Aircrafts and helicopters with jet motors can be fuelled by Jet A1, or, as it i also called, kerosene or…
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News | 2020-02-11
All presentations at the conference Building a sustainable European biofuel industry were filmed, and most of the recordings are now…
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News | 2019-12-13
The connection to land use is discussed in many biofuel contexts. Using land for production of biofuels could lead to…
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News | 2019-12-10
On 27 November, E.on hosted a coordinator meeting for the f3 partners and took the participants to visit stops along…
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News | 2019-12-02
We have now compiled the resources from the conference “Building a sustainable European biofuel industry” that was held in Gothenburg…
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News | 2019-11-19
On 4-6 November, the conference Building a sustainable European biofuel industry in Gothenburg became a meeting venue for a…
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News | 2019-11-18
Looking towards the year 2030, what are the realistic assumptions that could be made about the contribution of LBG in…
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News | 2019-11-15
In connection to the conference ”Building a sustainable European biofuel industry” 5-6 November, participants also gathered for other activities; a…
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News | 2019-11-14
Last week’s jointly arranged conference between Bio4Fuels (NO), Supergen Bioenergy (UK) and the collaborative research program Renewable transportation fuels and…
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News | 2019-11-11
On 4-6 November, the conference Building a sustainable European biofuel industry will take place in Gothenburg. This is a…
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News | 2019-10-24
Open call for projects in the Swedish Energy Agency and f3 collaborative research program Renewable transportation fuels and systems.
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News | 2019-10-21
In March, we posted the news that the project Biogas in the transport sector – an actor and…
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News | 2019-08-12
Finally we can announce the result of the spring call in the Swedish Energy Agency and f3 collaborative research program…
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News | 2019-07-02
From left: Jörgen Larsson, Chalmers; Maria Wetterstrand, the Biojet Inquiry; Sören Eriksson, Preem; Ingrid Nohlgren, f3 and Anna Elofsson, PhD…
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News | 2019-05-28
When the impact of economic, environmental, social and technical aspects on fuel choice in the maritime sector was investigated within…
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News | 2019-05-23
What is the result from comparing life cycle costs for forest-based and fossil-based value chains for producing fuels for use…
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News | 2019-05-07
Demands for higher targets, a systems perspective and a harmonized approach In the beginning of March, f3 reported that…
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News | 2019-04-18
Curious about what activities took place within f3 during 2018? Find out about published reports, new projects, arranged events and…
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News | 2019-04-09
Just before Christmas 2018, the final new version of the EU Renewable Energy Directive, also called RED II.
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News | 2019-03-08
In early 2018, the Swedish Government appointed a new committee with the purpose to analyse how the use of sustainable…
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News | 2019-03-07
Biogas has been used as a transportation fuel in Sweden for over two decades and the technology for production, distribution…
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News | 2019-03-05
What are the socio-economic and environmental co-benefits related to biofuels production for the transport sector? How can we measure values…
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News | 2019-03-01
On 21 February, the second call closed for project applications within the Swedish Energy Agency and f3 collaborative research program…
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News | 2019-02-28
In April 2018, we could publish a conclusing report in Swedich from the project Techno-economics of long and short term…
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News | 2019-02-22
The project An innovation policy framework and policy options for the development of biorefineries that finished in June 2018 is…
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News | 2019-02-20
On 29 January, a unanimous general assembly decided to welcome VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, as…
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News | 2019-01-30
On 16 January 2019, the Swedish Energy Agency and f3 offer an opportunity to ask questions and generally discuss applications…
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News | 2018-12-03
On 22 November, the yearly conference for the Swedish Energy Agency and f3 collaborative research program Renewable transportation fuels…
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News | 2018-11-23
Take part in developing the use of sustainable renewable transportation fuels through system analyses Today 5 November 2018, a new…
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News | 2018-11-05
Current EU policy calls for decreased emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) by i.e., replacing fossil fuel in the transportation sector…
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News | 2018-10-05
The call for projects in the f3 and Swedish Energy Agency collaborative research program Renewable transportation fuels and systems earlier…
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News | 2018-09-27
The registration for the 2018 conference within the Swedish Energy Agency and f3 collaborative research program Renewable transportation fuels and systems,…
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News | 2018-09-19
The number of possible combinations of feedstock, feedstock pre-treatment, and downstream processes for large-scale production of different types of biofuel…
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News | 2018-09-19
In April, the summarized results from the f3 project Gasification-based biofuels – Greenhouse gas emissions and profitability analysis with general…
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News | 2018-09-18
Today’s road freight vehicles are mainly fuelled with diesel and use a significant fraction of the global fossil oil production.
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News | 2018-09-13
The project Methanol production via black liquor gasification with expanded raw material base was finished earlier this year and a report…
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News | 2018-08-16
One of the first projects to publish results from the first phase of the Swedish Energy Agency and f3 collaborative…
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News | 2018-08-07
The sustainability performance of bioenergy and biofuels is debated, both within the scientific community and in society. Sometimes conflicting views…
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News | 2018-06-19
The interest for renewable liquid methane as a fuel for heavy duty road and marine transports has risen in Sweden…
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News | 2018-06-12
The global greenhouse gas emissions from the shipping sector should be reduced by 50% by 2050 compared to 2008, according…
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News | 2018-06-04
A biorefinery co-produces various high-quality products such as biofuels, chemicals, electricity and heat from a biomass-based commodity. Although there are…
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News | 2018-05-15
In a new report from an f3 project, a certain case of business development for production of second generation transportation…
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News | 2018-05-08
For Sweden to reach national goals of fossil independency and a climate neutral society, it is essential that the production…
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News | 2018-05-03
Gasification-based biofuel production systems have a large potential to contribute to climate change mitigation in the transport sector. The commercial…
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News | 2018-04-19
On April 12, the Swedish Parliament’s Committee on transport and communications had an open hearing concerning the publication of an…
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News | 2018-04-12
The Swedish Energy Agency has identified different transport biofuel production technologies based on forest feedstock as strategically interestingin the future.
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News | 2018-04-09
2017 was a busy year for f3. Activities, seminars, publications, projects and more are now summarized in an annual report…
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News | 2018-04-04
Today, the first call for project proposals within the second stage of the Swedish Energy Agency and f3 collaborative research…
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News | 2018-03-16
In December 2017, f3 published a report from the project Evaluation of biofuel production costs in…
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News | 2018-03-14
What is the current view of the technical and economic development for long-haul road transports fuelled by electricity and hydrogen?…
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News | 2018-03-14
The production and use of vehicle fuels results in both environmental and socio-economic impacts. The EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED),…
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News | 2018-03-13
The project Biofuels and ecosystem services, carried out within the Swedish Energy Agency and f3 collaborative research program Renewable transportation fuels…
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News | 2018-03-05
Two out of several potential marine feedstocks for biofuels production that can be cultivated in Sweden are the macroalgae sugar…
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News | 2018-02-27
To replace fossil fuels with second generation biofuels, it is crucial that biomass material is made available. However, there is…
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News | 2018-02-27
Just before christmas, it was announced that Ingrid Nohlgren will be the new f3 centre manager. – I feel…
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News | 2018-02-15
Replacing fossil fuels with sustainable fuel from biomass requires both innovative technological solutions and a feedstock that does not put…
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News | 2018-02-05
Compared to combustion in a recovery boiler, gasification of black liquor with downstream synthesis to biofuels in Kraft pulp mills…
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News | 2018-02-02
A potential future production route for renewable transportation fuels is to produce bio-oil from forest raw material through i.e. fast…
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News | 2018-01-29
In order for Sweden to reach its goal of a fossil free transport sector by the year 2030, the forecast…
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News | 2018-01-18
During the fall of 2016, a project carried out within the Swedish Energy Agency and f3 collaborative reserarch program…
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News | 2018-01-17
In a new report written for f3 by Per Hanarp and Mia Romare, Volvo Group, a life cycle assessment (LCA)…
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News | 2018-01-10
A high implementation rate of additional iLUC-free (indirect Land Use Change) feedstock for biofuel production is needed to realize biofuel…
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News | 2018-01-09
Just in time for Christmas, we are happy to announce that the new manager for f3 will be Ingrid Nohlgren.
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News | 2017-12-22
In 2017, the Swedish government proposed to introduce a reduction obligation for transportation fuel distributors. This would imply an obligation…
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News | 2017-12-18
In May, a list was put together by the f3 office, concluding links to scientific articles published in projects…
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News | 2017-11-21
The project Public procurement as a policy instrument to support the diffusion and use of renewable transport fuels, carried out…
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News | 2017-11-20
On 27 October 2017, the Steering Committee of ETIP Bioenergy, in which f3 is represented, reached an agreement on the…
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News | 2017-11-14
Despite over 20 years of use as a transportation fuel in Sweden, and a production, distribution and use established at…
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News | 2017-11-13
Future biofuel production opportunities in Sweden can be analysed in various ways. The BeWhere Sweden project series has had three…
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News | 2017-11-08
In April 2017, an extended summary of the project Environmental and socio-economic benefits from Swedish biofuel production was published.
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News | 2017-11-06
On October 25-26, 2017, the concluding program conference for the Swedish Energy Agency and f3 collaborative research program Renewable…
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News | 2017-10-30
Since January 2014, the Swedish Energy Agency and f3 have financed the collaborative research program Renewable transportation fuels and…
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News | 2017-10-24
In May, a report from the project Barriers to an increased utilisation of high biofuel blends in the Swedish…
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News | 2017-10-18
With financial support from Vinnova, f3 acts as the Swedish advocacy platform towards Horizon 2020, The EU Framework Programme for…
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News | 2017-10-05
Despite the fact that biogas vehicles have been used for decades, the biogas market is small. A newly finished project…
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News | 2017-10-04
In June, an extended summary was made available the project From visions to smart ICT – Local transitions to…
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News | 2017-10-04
The project BeWhere – Stake-holder analysis of biofuel production in Sweden will soon be finished. It is the third of…
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News | 2017-10-04
We are glad to announce that the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA) recently took the decision to finance another four year…
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News | 2017-10-02
Methanol use in various applications is on the raise globally and there are several examples on how methanol is used…
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News | 2017-09-13
With an intense start of the fall season, preparing for a new, third, phase of f3 and the collaborative research…
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News | 2017-08-31
The full and detailed program for the concluding conference for the Swedish Energy Agency and f3 collaborative research program…
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News | 2017-08-31
Rasmus Einarsson and Martin Persson, Chalmers, who participated in the project Biogas from agricultural wastes and residues – where…
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News | 2017-08-31
For crop-based biogas plants, the cost for buying the crops is a predominant production cost and efficient systems for production,…
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News | 2017-08-30
Industrial symbiosis involves collaborations among diverse, and predominantly local and regional, actors that create additional economic and environmental value through…
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News | 2017-08-30
A new fact sheet on B100 has been produced and is available here. Find other fuel fact sheets as…
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News | 2017-08-14
In March it was announced that the project Techno-economic analysis of biomethane production with novel upgrading technology, carried out within the…
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News | 2017-08-07
Registration is now open for the concluding conference for the f3 and Swedish Energy Agency collaborative research program Renewable…
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News | 2017-06-28
One of the first projects to start within f3 was titled Optimal localisation of second generation biofuel production in…
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News | 2017-06-28
During the spring, seven new small f3 projects were granted funding from f3 partners and started their work. The projects…
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News | 2017-06-27
Local and regional authorities have an important role in the transition to fossil-free transport systems, but there is uncertainty regarding…
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News | 2017-06-27
In the GreenPilot project a pilot boat is converted to operate on methanol, thus opening up to a more…
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News | 2017-06-19
Biomass gasification is an attractive technology that efficiently converts forest biomass, biomass-based wastes and other types of renewable feedstocks into…
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News | 2017-06-08
In order to meet future environmental targets and reduce dependence on fossil fuels, biofuels are likely to represent a significant…
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News | 2017-05-31
How come there is no straight answer to the question of which renewable fuel is the best? The answer is…
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News | 2017-05-23
One of the objectives of the collaborative research program Renewable transportation fuels and systems (Förnybara drivmedel och system) as well…
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News | 2017-05-04
A new renewable energy directive for the period 2020-2030 was proposed by the European Commission on 30 November 2016. The…
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News | 2017-05-04
The fact sheets on DME and Methanol have been updated with new numbers and information on current projects…
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News | 2017-05-04
Since 2014, f3 has been functioning as the officially appointed Swedish advocacy platform towards renewable fuels R&I in Horizon 2020…
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News | 2017-05-02
Many municipalities in Sweden have requirements on green cars in the procurement of municipal vehicles and some also have requirements…
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News | 2017-04-26
In 2014, the Swedish Energy Agency reported a greenhouse gas emissions reduction of 1.95 M tonnes of CO2-eq due to…
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News | 2017-04-12
The principal products of the bioeconomy are biobased products and bioenergy, while the fundamental technology, introduced to replace petroleumbased refineries,…
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News | 2017-04-07
The programme for the 2017 International Advanced Biofuels Conference (ABC) in Gothenburg on 17-19 May is now available! The…
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News | 2017-03-29
Electrofuels, also known as power-to-gas/liquids/fuels, e-fuels, or synthetic fuels, are synthetic hydrocarbons, e.g. methane or methanol, produced from carbon dioxide…
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News | 2017-03-14
On 7 February 2017, the unanimous general assembly of f3 chose Annika Åhnberg as the new Chair of f3. She…
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News | 2017-03-07
There is a growing interest for electrofuel processes among biogas producers, that can be associated with a potential for these…
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News | 2017-03-07
The use of upgraded biogas (biomethane) as vehicle fuel has been considered as one of the most efficient means of…
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News | 2017-03-06
The f3 fact sheet on EU sustainability criteria for biofuels has recently been updated with the latest figures and facts…
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News | 2017-02-23
February 9 was the date for the launch of Bio4Fuels, a centre for environment-friendly energy research (FME) based at the…
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News | 2017-02-20
Close to 60 people attended the seminar Feedstock for sustainable biofuel production, co-arranged by f3, Bio4Energy and SLU at SLU in…
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News | 2017-02-19
The latest call in the Swedish Energy Agency and f3 collaborative research program Renewable transportation fuels and systems has resulted…
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News | 2017-02-16
Ecosystem services are the benefits people obtain from ecosystems. There is evidence that biofuels offer ecosystem services but also compromise…
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News | 2017-01-12
The final report from the project Methane as vehicle fuel – a gate-to-wheel study (METDRIV) is now available. It analyses…
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News | 2017-01-11
The Climate KIC supported project RENJET has investigated future renewable jet fuel supply chains. Sweden was selected as a case region…
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News | 2017-01-10
This is what the latest finished f3 project wants to investigate. P2G is an acronym for Power-to-gas, meaning that power…
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News | 2016-12-19
Registration is now open for the seminar Feedstock for sustainable biofuel production, co-arranged by f3, SLU and Bio4Energy in Umeå…
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News | 2016-12-12
The use of biofuels in Sweden has increased dramatically during the last decade and the country is now one of…
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News | 2016-10-25
Diversification of forest industry activities into transport fuels is important for Swedish climate and energy policy goal achievement, and biofuel…
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News | 2016-10-18
f3 and Lighthouse co-arranged a seminar on October 6 on renewable transportation fuels for the marine sector. The first part…
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News | 2016-10-18
A recently finished f3 project has modeled accumulated environmental impacts of Swedish biofuel production and consumption in order to understand…
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News | 2016-10-07
An increased share of renewable transportation fuels requires utilisation of new low-cost sources of bio-based raw materials other than what…
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News | 2016-08-29
How can alternative technologies improve bio oil production? What role can renewable fuels play in the marine sector? In which…
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News | 2016-08-09
The latest finished project within f3 is a knowledge synthesis addressing flexibility in ethanol based biorefinery processes using lignocellulosic feedstocks…
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News | 2016-06-02
The intensified focus on bio-based economy has revived the interest in forest industry as a very important factor in the…
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News | 2016-02-25
Forest-derived methane may contribute significantly to a vehicle fleet independent of fossil fuels by 2030. According to a recently finished…
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News | 2016-02-19
The production of biofuels has increased dramatically in North America in recent years, according to a study carried out within…
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News | 2016-02-10
Anaerobic fermentation of agricultural wastes such as crop residues and animal manure, producing biogas, is an example of an advanced…
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News | 2016-01-07
The new energy tax on ethanol will make it the most expensive transportation fuel on the Swedish market. According to…
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News | 2015-12-07
Syngas is an important feedstock when producing many chemical products, but also gaseous biofuels and liquid biofuels. Its can also…
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News | 2015-11-26
A recent study, resulting in a new f3 report, indicates that there is a dominant focus on GHG (greenhouse gas) related impacts at the…
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News | 2015-11-12
The Swedish public transport sector has defined two major targets, i.e., to run 90% of the total vehicle kilometers of…
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News | 2015-10-23
The f3 project The method’s influence on climate impact assessment has discovered important differences in results when calculating carbon…
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News | 2015-10-20
Renewable energy use in the transportation sector will consist of a combination of renewable electricity and biofuels. Hence, biofuels can…
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News | 2015-09-01
The f3 project “Barriers to an increased utilisation of high biofuel blends in the Swedish vehicle fleet” aims at developing a better…
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News | 2015-06-04
With a predicted increasing share of biofuels produced in biorefineries, there is a need for a discussion on critical methodological…
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News | 2014-08-26
Over the years, many LCA studies of bioenergy systems have been performed, but LCA of bioenergy still faces some methodological…
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News | 2014-07-11
As a result from the first call for projects within the cooperation program between f3 and the Swedish Energy Agency,…
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News | 2014-06-26
The f3 project Social and socioeconomic impacts from vehicle fuels has now delivered a report. The project has been…
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News | 2014-01-29
Reports from three finished projects are now available. Click below to read more on the projects and/or to access reports.
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News | 2014-01-09
More ambitious energy and environmental targets and larger use of alternative energy in the transport sector increase system effects over…
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News | 2013-10-17
The latest report from an f3 project covers the issue of forest biomass as raw material for biofuel as well…
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News | 2013-10-17
Two more project reports are now available on the f3-web!One is among the first projects that were ever introduced by…
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News | 2013-08-27
The EU has declared a 10 percent goal of renewable fuels in the transportation sector by the year 2020. To…
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News | 2013-07-01
This project has performed a comprehensive review of publications regarding industrially integrated biomass gasifiers for motor fuel production. The purposes…
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News | 2013-06-19
While much attention has been paid to every detail of the emissions from biofuel systems, comparatively few studies have investigated…
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News | 2013-06-18
The project Biofuels and land use in Sweden – an overview of land-use change effect has delivered it's report…
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News | 2013-05-28
Two more reports from finished projects are now available, these are Optimal localisation of second generation biofuel production in…
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News | 2013-05-17
The finished report from the f3 syntheses project "Mapping of biofuels R&D in Brazil" is now available in the Renewable…
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News | 2013-01-02
Biofuels have been recognized to be one of the key solutions for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from the transport…
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News | 2012-11-23
A study of the EU sustainability criteria has been performed by Serina Ahlgren, f3 coordinator for SLU (Swedish University of…
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News | 2012-06-15
The mapping of R&D activities within the f3 centre is a continuous work. A report is now available that describes the centre parties, and presents an analysis of their…
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News | 2012-01-24
Viktor Andersson at Chalmers is the project leader of a new f3 project about seaweed-based fuels and how they can be made…
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News | 2007-02-21