Micro Waste to Energy: micro energy to rural business

MicrE developed and promoted innovative small scale renewable energy solutions for rural SME’s and local organisations in the Northern Periphery. These solutions use new and existing technologies which have not been tried in a rural environment before, such as gasification, pyrolysis and anaerobic digestion. Targeted were especially SMEs which generate organic by-products and waste, such as of food and biotechnology industries.

Project activities:

• Energetic start of the project (14.-15.1. 2010)
• MicrE Oulu team at the Northern Energy Forum (5.-6.10.2010)
• Visiting Swedish bioenergy plants (1.-5.11.2010)
• Sustainable Energy systems conference (24.-25.11.2010)
• NorTech Oulu visited Umeå (17.-18.1. 2011)
• Biogas seminar in Oulu (16.2. 2011)

Publications:

PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

• MicrE project booklet
• MicrE project presentation at the EnePro conference
• MicrE project poster
• WP3 final report

TECHNOLOGY BOOKLETS

• W2E booklet: Waste to energy technologies, installation, safety and troubleshooting guide
  • Available also in Finnish
• Smart Grid booklet: The Future of energy services: Potential of smart energy networks in the Northern Periphery
• Environemntal impact assessment report

DIPLOMA THESES

• Anu Kauriinoja's  master's thesis
• Johannes Ritamäki's master's thesis
• Antonio Caló's master's thesis

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

• Permea 2010: 5th Membrane Science and Technology Conference
  • Concentration of meat industry wastewater with RO: Conference paper
    
    
• Third International Symposium on Energy from Biomass and Waste, Venice 2010
  1. Reverse Osmosis of meat industry wastewater and Anaerobic Digestion of concentrate: Conference paper, Poster

1. 7th International Kastelli Symposium, 2010
   1. Energy economics and wellbeing: Abstract, Poster
   
   
2. Smart Grids conference
   1. Smart grids in Northern Periphery: Poster

WWW PAGES

1. Waste to energy technologies pages
2. Project homepage

Cooperation partners:

1. North Karelia University of Applied Sciences (lead partner)
2. Josek Oy, Regional Development Centre
3. North Karelia Regional Environment Centre
4. University of Oulu
5. University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
6. International Resource and Recycling Centre, Dumfries, Scotland
7. WestBic Business and Innovation Centre, Foxford, Ireland
8. West Regional Authority, Galway, Ireland
9. Umeå University, Sweden
    
    

Project funding:
Northern Periphery Programme of the European Union

Duration:
1/2009 - 12/2011

Contact person:
Eva Pongrácz

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