Smart and reliable solid biofuel quality control solution

Acronym

OPTIFUEL

Description of the granted funding

The goal is to realize the global market opportunity related to a disruptive real-time solid biofuels quality control and optimization solution created, tested and proven by INRAY Ltd in cooperation with industrial anchor customers since 2009. The innovation enables biomass power plants to replace the current manual sampling method by real-time assessment and optimization of fuel handling and combustion, producing concrete value and savings both to a vast body of industrial customers and the society at large. For the entire EU’s bioenergy production, the OPTIFUEL solution could produce 1.5 Billion Euros in annual savings and decrease greenhouse gas emissions by 0,5-3,0 Million tons. OPTIFUEL also enables more effective use of local low quality biofuels, which would increase EU’s self-sufficiency in biofuels. For a mid-size biomass power plant, OPTIFUEL produces up-to 1 Million Euros in annual savings.
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Starting year

2016

End year

2018

Granted funding

INRAY OY LTD
1 137 713.5 €
Coordinator
INRAY TECHNOLOGIES SL (ES)
51 625 €
Third party

Amount granted

1 189 339 €

Funder

European Union

Funding instrument

SME instrument phase 2

Framework programme

Horizon 2020 Framework Programme

Call

Programme part
INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) (5239)
Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument (5284)
Energy (5352)
Topic
Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (SMEInst-09-2016-2017)
Call ID
H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017

Other information

Funding decision number

733664

Identified topics

biomass, bioeconomy