Goals & objetives

Abengoa Bioenergía aims to establish a leadership position in the bioenergy industry and become a global producer of renewable energy. It is the mission and ultimate goal of Abengoa Bioenergía Nuevas Tecnologías (ABNT) to achieve this vision with the development of manufacturing technologies and the implementation of the best and most efficient operating practices.

ABNT takes up the lead role of R+D in Abengoa Bioenergía, which considers the master lines for developing its Strategic Plan and focuses on the launch of the projects and R+D initiatives within the company objectives. The objectives of the plan include:

• Improving current production processes of ethanol from grain.
• Identifying and managing new sources of raw materials.
• Developing and marketing competitive technologies for biomass conversion.
• Developing technology for the production of enzymes used in the hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass.
• Developing technologies for microalgae CO2 capture with a dual purpose.
• Improving the Life cycle of biofuel production facilities with the capture of CO2 produced in them.
• Using the biomass generated as a raw material in the production of biofuels.
• Developing advanced biorefinery concepts.
• Increasing the value of by-products.
• Demonstration programs for end uses of ethanol.

The motor and vehicle of the previous objectives is Sustainability therefore, innovative solutions are constantly being developed which allow us to respond to the increasingly demanding challenges that arise in this field.

Thus, Sustainability certification is designed as a crucial activity for transferring to its processes and products the effort being made, as well as allowing the anticipation to future regulatory requirements, and responding to customer and market requests which demand guarantees of good environmental and social performance of the products that are used.

For this purpose, in the current and future production processes, advanced technological solutions are being developed in order to guarantee the traceability of raw materials, including the calculation of the energy intensity and greenhouse gas emissions associated to its cultivation, harvest, transport and use as well as devising systems for managing the sustainable sources of its products.

Its progress in Sustainability is completed with the Life Cycle Analysis of its products and co-products in accordance with the most advanced methodologies and software, and with the support to all Bioenergy companies through the conceptual development and management of the tools necessary for not only establishing improvement objectives but also for successfully tackling current high Sustainability requirements.