BEST - Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies
| BEST - Bioenenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 2003 |
| Seat | Graz , Austria ; ⊙ Branch offices in Vienna , Wieselburg , Tulln |
| management | Walter Haslinger, Roman Schmid |
| Number of employees | about 100 |
| Branch | Research, development, demonstration |
| Website | www.best-research.eu |
| As of August 25, 2020 | |
BEST - Bioenenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH is a K1 competence center of the COMET program and deals with industry-driven, applied research and development of bioenergy, sustainable bio-based economy and sustainable energy systems. The center is located in Graz , on the Inffeldgasse campus .
history
The competence center Austrian Bioenergy Center, founded in 2003 with a branch in Wieselburg, was one of the 18 Austria-wide Kplus centers of the Research Promotion Agency . In autumn 2006, the scientific proponents of the K-net network RENET Austria and the Kplus center Austrian Bioenergy Center had a joint project Submission under the redesigned COMET program agreed. The notarial act required for the change of name took place on October 24, 2008, and the entry in the commercial register as BIOENERGY 2020+ GmbH was finally made at the end of January 2009. In 2013, the submission was made as part of the third call for tenders of the COMET program line K1 Centers of the FFG. The approval was announced on July 10, 2014. In 2019 the company name was changed to BEST - Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH. In the same year BEST was awarded a COMET module to set up the Chemical Looping research area.
structure
Ownership structure:
- 19.0% association of business partners
- 17.0% Graz University of Technology
- 13.5% Vienna University of Technology
- 13.5% University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
- 13.5% University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt Ges.mbH
- 13.5% Republic of Austria , FJ / BLT Wieselburg
- 10.0% Joanneum Research Forschungsges.mbH
The company is headquartered in Graz , further locations are in Vienna and Wieselburg (in the technology and research center / Technopol Wieselburg-Land of Ecoplus ,) research facilities are operated in Vienna-Simmering and Tulln (at Technopol Tulln ).
BEST works on the scientific and technological basis for processes that produce heat, electricity, gaseous and liquid energy carriers and raw materials for the chemical industry from biomass and waste. On the other hand, BEST is researching the joint use of bioenergy and other renewable energy supply technologies for efficient, environmentally and climate-friendly and economical solutions for the energy system of the future.
Research fields
Five different areas represent the different thematic focuses:
- Fixed bed conversion systems
- Fluidized bed conversion systems
- Bion conversion & biogas systems modeling and simulation
- Energy and bioeconomy systems
- Sub-Area: Sustainable supply and value chains
- Sub-area: Intelligent electricity and microgrids
- Sub-area: control and automation technology
BEST also has extensive technical center and laboratory space at all locations.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ locations. Accessed August 31, 2020 .
- ↑ team. Accessed August 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Austrian Bio Energy Center tinkering for SMEs ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: Wirtschaftsblatt online, April 4, 2007.
- ↑ Energy research strategy for Austria. (PDF; 2.3 MB), accessed on November 20, 2013.
- ↑ company history ; bioenergy2020.eu, accessed on November 20, 2013.
- ↑ Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology: COMET - Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies , accessed on November 12, 2012.
- ^ Austrian Research Promotion Agency : Comet K1 Centers , accessed on November 12, 2012.
- ↑ Otto Starzer, FFG: 10 years of bioenergy research as part of the Austrian competence center program. (PDF, 0.6 MB; lko.at; accessed on November 3, 2015).
- ↑ K1 centers: 14 applications submitted as part of the 3rd call ; ffg.at, accessed on January 15, 2014.
- ↑ Mitterlehner / Bures: The starting shot has been given for 10 new K1 centers . In: Austria Press Agency, APA OTS0016 , July 10, 2014.
- ↑ About us. Accessed August 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Technology and Research Center Wieselburg-Land ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . ecoplus.at, accessed on January 17, 2014
- ↑ Technopol Wieselburg ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . ecoplus.at, accessed on January 17, 2014
