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COASTAL Biogas Steering Group Meeting and Conference, 12-14 November 2019, Roskilde, Denmark

The second COASTAL Biogas Conference was held on 13 and 14 November 2019 in Roskilde, Denmark. Prior to that, on 12 November, project partners met for the third Steering Group Meeting (SGM) to plan and discuss upcoming activities and further implementation of the project. At the beginning of the conference the critical eutrophication state of the Baltic Sea and possibilities to improve the situation were introduced in the keynote speech by a representative of HELCOM (Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission – Helsinki Commission). Subsequently, first results achieved in the COASTAL Biogas project were presented and partners from connected projects gave an insight into how they try to tackle the issue of cast seaweed. In the last session the regulations and management of digestate in Denmark, digestate processing options and policy work on digestate management of the European Biogas Association were made subject of discussion. The study tour on the next day led the participants to the beach at Køge Bay (see photo) and the Solrød biogas plant, where cast seaweed is already utilised as co-substrate for anaerobic digestion.

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Photo: Anne Roßmann, FNR, 2019

First steering group meeting

On the 22nd of November 2018 the first COASTAL Biogas steering group meeting took place at Gdansk University of Technology (GUT), Poland.

Project consortia
From left: Tyge Kjaer and Michelle Hansen (RUC), Sebastian Foth (UROS), Anne Roßmann (FNR), Jörgen Held, (BEIC), Frank Scholwin, (UROS), Andrius Tamosiunas and Nerijus Striugas (LEI) and Robert Aranowski, (GUT).  Jan Hupka and Iwona Kopcynska (GUT) participated in the meeting but are not present in the picture.

The meeting was opened by the project coordinator Anne Roßmann (FNR), followed by presentations of the WP leaders. The interactions between the WPs were reviewed in detail and crosslinks were elucidated. The gathering was also used to lively discuss issues, such as requirements of seaweed collection methods on beaches and in marinas, technologies for pretreatment of seaweed prior to anaerobic digestion in biogas plants and options for developing a training kit for project stakeholders. The meeting was rounded off with a study tour in the GUT biogas laboratories.