Biogas Solutions Research Center

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Biogas Solutions Research Center is a national competence center that aims to create strong, national competencies leading to industrially and socially motivated research on and development of biogas solutions. The center is administered by Linköping University.

Socio-technical energy systems that contain digestion, biogas solutions, usually have very good sustainability performance because they simultaneously treat waste, produce renewable fuel and create renewable plant nutrients. There is a lot of substrate available, the is a huge demand for its products, but only a fraction of the potential is utilized. Within BSRC, the role of research is to create new knowledge and competence that can support a coordinated adjustment.

The Biogas Solutions Research Center (BSRC) works transdisciplinary to create new knowledge through the meeting between many different disciplines and between researchers and practitioners. The focus is on delivering knowledge, competence, international exchange, in-depth collaboration between scientific disciplines and with practitioners, new solutions and analyzes of the contribution to a sustainability transition to actors along the value chain, to the biogas sector and to communities at large.

Communication, networking, education and internationalization are tools for achieving the centre's vision, strategy and goals of realizing the sustainability potential of biogas solutions.

Participants

BSRC is financed to one third by the Swedish Energy Agency, one third by the academic parties Linköping University and SLU and one third by the participating parties from business and the public sector. Participants from business and the public sector contribute not only with funding in the form of money, but also with a large investment of time and commitment. They actively participate in the research activities and have the opportunity both to influence the activities and to use the results commercially.

The researchers come from five departments at Linköping University and four different departments at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

The researchers come from five departments at Linköping University and four different departments at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

The center is administered from Linköping University.

BSRC also has about 50 partners and members from business and the public sector.

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Vision

Wherever a biogas solution strengthens
the overall resource efficiency, it is realised
Biogas Solutions Research Center, Vision

Contacts

Address

Postal address

Linköping University Department of Management and Engineering Biogas Research Center SE-581 83 Linköping Sweden

Visiting address

Linköping University Hans Meijers väg Department of Management and Engineering Division of Environmental Technology and Management A Building, entrance 17, 1st floor, corridor A, Campus Valla

GPS Coordinates

WGS 84 (lat, lon):
N 58° 24.0548', E 15° 34.6028'
WGS 84 decimal (lat, lon):
58.400913, 15.576714
RT90:
6475328, 1486641
SWEREF99:
6473491, 533707

Researchers at BSRC

BSRC News

Marcus Gustafsson, docen at Linköping University.

Life-cycle data shows biogas outperforms fossil fuels

Using life cycle analysis, Marcus Gustafsson demonstrates how a system perspective changes the understanding of what truly constitutes a sustainable fuel.

PhD student Konrad Smolarczyk presents a new decision-making tool to support sustainable transport choices.

New tool to guide sustainable transport decisions for heavy-duty, long-haul trucks

At the BSRC summer conference in Linköping, PhD student Konrad Smolarczyk presented a new decision-making tool specifically designed to support more sustainable choices in the heavy-duty, long-haul transport sector.

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LiU researchers study the export potential of Swedish biogas

Now is the time to invest in the export of Swedish biogas. But perhaps it is primarily knowledge transfer and an understanding of the entire waste management system that Sweden should be exporting.

Divisions involved in the research at BSRC

Environmental Technology and Management

Environmental Technology and Management (MILJÖ)

Division of Environmental Technology and Management is a research and education environment at the Department of Management and Engineering. We turn environmental problems into opportunities.

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Environmental Change (TEMAM)

Almost all nature bears traces of human activity. Its condition is strongly linked to social development. This creates a need for scientific breadth and problem-solving skills. Education and research at Environmental Change respond to this challenge.

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Energy Systems (ENSYS)

The division of Energy Systems is involved in research, undergraduate and graduate education and collaboration with industry and public sector organisations in the field of energy.

Organisation