From Waste to Sustainable Fuels – Joint Symposium

The path to decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors like aviation and heavy shipping relies on one thing: moving from lab-scale innovation to standardized, sustainable fuel production.
Invitation to “From Waste to Sustainable Fuels – Comprehensive Sustainability Assessment & Product Standardisation in Next-Generation Biofuel Pathways: Integrating Waste-to-Fuel Innovations for Hard-to-Abate Sectors”, a comprehensive two-day symposium in Barcelona on 28-29 May 2026. This event marks a unique collaboration between seven leading EU-funded projects (Flexby, FUEL-UP, PYSOLO, TEAPOTS, BeBOP, Bio-MeGaFuel, and Fuels-C) bringing together experts, researchers, industry stakeholders, and policymakers to explore sustainability assessment and product standardisation in next-generation biofuel pathways, with a focus on waste-to-fuel solutions for hard-to-abate sectors.

Preliminary Featured Sessions & Presentations

1. The Path to Market: Standards & SAF Qualification

• ASTM Requirements (The German Aerospace Center (DLR)/FUEL-UP project): Strategies for navigating specification barriers to move from “lab-scale” to “qualified fuels” in Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) projects.
• LCA Alignment (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)/FUEL-UP project): Harmonizing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods to allow fair, standardized comparisons across various biofuel projects.

2. Engineering & Process Optimization

• Side-Stream Valorisation (Aristeng/FUEL-UP project): Deep dive into process design, TEA, and GHG emissions calculations for potential side streams valorisation processes.
• Solar-Driven Biomass Pyrolysis (Politecnico di Milano/PYSOLO project): Performance assessment of solar-driven biomass plants for negative-emission biofuel production.
• Intensified Systems (TU Eindhoven-1Cube/Bio-MeGaFuel project): Exploring intensified systems for biobased and e-fuel conversion processes.

3. Digital Innovation & Local Impact

• AI in Biorefineries (Center of Forest Science and Technology of Catalonia /PYSOLO project): Using Artificial Intelligence to assess forest and agricultural biomass in solar-powered biorefinery plants.
• Local Action (Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH) /TEAPOTS project): How regional actions drive European-wide impact – The role of the Greek Pilot in TEAPOTS

4. Advanced Sustainability & Circularity Frameworks

• The Circularity Framework (ECODESIGN/BeBOP project): Implementing circularity in biofuel projects.
• The recovery of valuable elements from solid residues from the thermal conversion of biomass (Pro-Akademia/ BeBOP project).
• Early-Stage Assessment (GreenDelta/Flexby project): Environmental and social LCA alongside life cycle costing for early-stage biofuels systems.
• The Global Sustainability Score (University of Burgos/Fuels-C project): A methodology integrating environmental, economic, social, circularity, and criticality indicators into a single global sustainability score to support decision-making and prioritization in project evaluation.
• Climate Performance (RISE/Bio-MeGaFuel project): Analyzing the cost and climate performance of biofuels in current markets.

Event Logistics

• Venue: Hotel H10 ART GALLERY, Carrer d’Enric Granados, 62-64, Eixample, 08008 Barcelona, Spain
• Day 1: 9:30 am – 5:00 pm CET
• Day 2: 9:30 am – 1:30 pm CET

Registration

Register now to participate in the discussion: https://pysolo.eu/joint-symposium-registration/

Participation in the symposium is free of charge.

Funding Statement and Disclaimer

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Source

nova-Institute, original text, 2026-02-23.

Supplier

Aristeng
Center of Forest Science and Technology of Catalonia
Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH / TEAPOTS project)
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR)
European Union
GreenDelta
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI)
Pro-Akademia
Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE)
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
University of Burgos

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