About Task 36

Aims and Objectives

The aims of this Task are consistent with the overall IEA Bioenergy Strategic Plan and include ongoing initiatives to:

• Promote market deployment of technologies and systems for sustainable energy generation from biomass
• Share information between participating members
• Stimulate interaction between RD&D programmes, industry and decision makers
• Assist non-participants in adopting appropriate waste management practices to improve environmental standards
• Identify opportunities to work together with other Tasks and to identify joint events and projects to improve synergy and avoid duplication.
• Identify and interact with appropriate international organisations
  

Within the three-year timescale of the Task, specific objectives shall include:

Review the impact of changing policy (such as policy on renewable heat) on deployment of energy from waste.

Review methodologies for assessing the biogenic content of solid waste.

Examine the life cycle assessment of waste management and energy recovery options, with particular reference to the carbon aspects. Through this work consider the place of energy from waste within waste hierarchies, particularly with respect to the recycling of difficult fractions.

Examine options for integrating energy recovery from waste into recycling and recovery waste management facilities in order to explore the practical aspects of the eco refinery concept.

Review small scale options for energy from waste recovery that are particularly suited to rural areas and developing nations.

Review the management of the residues from energy recovery, particularly with respect to the impact of design of the front end.

Maintain and develop links with international policy and information dissemination bodies such as the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), the European Environment Agency (EEA) etc. and to collaborate with these organisations where mutually beneficial to the aims of IEA Bioenergy.

Organise twice yearly meetings of the Task and to seek the opportunity to hold some of these meetings as joint meetings with other Tasks with a common focus, such as Task 32 on Combustion technologies and Task 37 on anaerobic digestion.

Co-ordinate and manage the work of the Task

Report to the IEA Executive Committee (ExCo) twice yearly on the technical and financial progress of the Task and attend any ExCo meetings as may be required.