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Over the years, the Bazancourt-Pomacle biorefinery has followed a progressive strategy to develop and diversify its activity, accompanied by changes in its nature. The original sugar factory and distillery (1948) has been joined by a starch and glucose producing plant, a dedicated research centre, start-up companies, demonstration and industrial pilot scheme sites, a bio-fuel refinery and academic research chairs. In this way, the biorefinery has moved on from industrial processing to become an innovation platform made up of demonstration sites and a private joint research centre, and then a centre of excellence for white biotechnology (CEBB) specialising in research and knowledge production within the European Biorefinery Institute (IEB).
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It should be noted that the ARD-SOLIANCE site has a whole series of pilot-scheme tools, but which are not all aimed to interconnect or to produce fulltime.
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This remark can be partly “theorised,” since other research into power trains and alternative fuels has shown that physical engineers in an electricity firm are more liable to understand and become involved in the field of electric vehicles or fuel cells, whilst chemical engineers in oil firms feel closer to the field of bio-fuels (Source: Stevens and Schieb 2013).
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“Promiscuity”: this noun is used in its etymological sense, from promiscuous in Latin, in other words common, shared, general, indiscriminate (Source: OED).
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Earlier ARD successes are also significant, and should not be ignored. They are however confidential in nature and subject to contracts between private partners, and so cannot be discussed here.
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ARD: press release of 3 June 2014.
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Global Bioenergies, press release, 4 June 2013.
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A second industrial pilot unit will be installed at the Leuna platform in Germany.
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Marne Department Chamber of Agriculture (2014) draft report of a feasibility study for an experimental agro-technological platform north of Reims on the BA 112 site.
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It should be noted that the German anaerobic digestion model uses significant amounts of whole corncobs. The French model would look to digest primarily organic waste.
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Deroy and Thenot (2012).
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Rousseau (2004).
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Such an entity, exclusively devoted to the platform might be supported by a financial market type local organisation, which would be set up to serve local economic players.
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Schieb, PA., Lescieux-Katir, H., Thénot, M., Clément-Larosière, B. (2015). Prospects for the Bazancourt-Pomacle Biorefinery Between Now and 2030. In: Biorefinery 2030. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47374-0_4
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