European-Canadian partnership for climatepositive heat and power production

EUCANWin! has three ambitious goals: 

• To increase the viability of the biomass supply chain from forests by involving artificial intelligence
• To increase the electrical efficiency of combined heat and power through Biomass-fired Top Cycle technology (BTC),
• To achieve this in combination with negative carbon emissions

Specifically, EUCANWin! will:

• Support the knowledge transfer of biomass availability information (Forest Biomass Atlas) to Canada, as an open service to support the bioeconomy;
• Investigate opportunities to transfer tree-length harvesting expertise from Canada to Europe;
• Develop a prototype On-Board Intelligent Biomass Analyser, including artificial intelligence and self-learning capabilities, to improve logistics and allocation;
• Double the efficiency of electrical conversion via the Biomass-fired Top Cycle (BTC) concept;
• Determine the most effective Bio-CO₂ capture technology for the BTC process;
• Provide an economic and environmental assessment of the biomass supply chain;
• Carry out a social impact assessment of the proposed technologies to support a fair and equitable low-carbon transition.

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EUCANWin! will run from April 2021 to March 2025. Additional information on the project can be found at the European Commission’s CORDIS page. The project website will launch in mid-2021.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101022829.