BioCarbonValue Final Seminar

Welcome to the BioCarbonValue Final Seminar 26/11/2024!

The Final Seminar of the BioCarbonValue project provides the most recent research information of carbon materials produced from agricultural or food industry side-streams to replace fossil-based carbon in high-value applications such as energy storage systems, biocomposites and and water purification processes, including business and market perspective.

Below you will find information about the event and registration, program and venue.

Event information

Place: Wanha Walimo (Walimosali), Lahti and Online 

Date: 26 November 2024

Time: On site 9:30-14:00 (EET), Online 10:00-13:00 (EET)

Registration: https://www.lyyti.in/biocarbonvalueproject (For on site participants, please register by 15 November 2024.)

Participation in person at the venue as well online are possible. Plese note, that the number of seats is limited at the venue. We wish to have as many organisations participating to the event, so we recommend organisations to have one representative in person. The seats are booked according to the registration order.

The registered participants will receive the link to the live stream a day prior to the event via email.

The seminar will be recorded and and the recording will be shared to registered participants after the event.

The seminar participation is free of charge.

Contact information: Eliisa Punttila, LAB (eliisa.punttila (a) lab.fi) and Virpi Siipola, VTT (virpi.siipola (a) vtt.fi)

Program

9:30 Morning coffee

10:00 Opening the seminar by host – Jyrki Schroderus, LAB

10:05 Opening speech by business sector representative – Hanne Wikberg, Chempolis

10:15 Comment speech by the City of Heinola – Jaana Kuula, City of Heinola

10:25 BioCarbonValue main outcomes – Virpi Siipola, VTT

10:50 Agribased biocarbon in applications

  • Water purification – Väinö Rintala, VTT
  • Energy storage – Taina Rauhala, VTT
  • Conductive biocomposites – Mourad Kharbach, LAB

11:45 Break

12:00 Business potential of agribased biocarbon

  • Comment speech of business representative – Hannu Lamberg, Neova Group
  • Availability of agricultural biomasses for industrial use in Finland – Eliisa Punttila, LAB
  • Biocarbon market overview – Esko Salo, VTT

12:50 Concluding words by host

13:00 Seminar ends

13:00 –14:00 Networking lunch

Venue information

The event will take place at Wanha Walimo, located in the city center of Lahti. The seminar is organised at Walimosali. The address is Vesijärvenkatu 25, 15140 Lahti. Coffee and lunch is served for the on site participants.

Arriving by public transportation: The railway and bus station, Lahden Matkakeskus, is located at 1,2 km walk from Walimo. Local bus schedules and routes are found from: https://lahti.digitransit.fi/. In front of the Matkakeskus you will also find a taxi stand.

Arriving by car: There are free of charge parking slots located in the inner yard of Walimo. More parking area is found from the parking hall of Shopping centre Kauppakeskus Syke located next to Walimo. Entrance to the parking hall from Sammonkatu. Use of the parking hall is chargeable after 2 hours parking.

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