Institute of Energy Technology – Professorship of Carriers

Invitation to a Seminar

Date: December 9, 2019 Time: 11:00-12:00 Place: ETH Zürich, ML-J25

Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Kaltschmitt Hamburg University of Technology Institute of Environmental Technology and Energy Economics D-21073 Hamburg

Title: Biomass-based Fuels: The silver bullet for GHG-neutral mobility?

To reduce GHG emissions also within the mobility sector biomass-based fuels have been pro- moted by the EU throughout the last decades – and in parallel, they have been more and more controversial discussed especially by the environmental NGO’s. Against this back- ground, the overarching goal of this presentation is to give an overview about the existing pathways for the provision of transportation fuels fulfilling the given fuel standards (e.g. CEN- standards, ASTM-standards) based on various types of biogenic feedstock. For that, the basic feedstock availability as well as the given technical challenges are discussed in detail. Based on this analysis, conclusions are drawn about the role of these fuels to contribute to the defossilation of the mobility system on a global scale. Additionally questions related to the given alternatives are tackled in this respect.

Martin Kaltschmitt studied petroleum engineering at Clausthal University of Technology, Ger- many. He received his PhD in the field of renewable energies at Stuttgart University, . Afterwards he headed a research group in the field of biomass / renewable energy at the same university where he completed his Habilitation. After a research stay at King's College in Lon- don, UK and at the University of California at Berkeley, USA he was promoted to managing director of the Leipziger Institute for Energy GmbH. In 2006, he was appointed Full Professor at Hamburg University of Technology, where he is currently heading the Institute of Environ- mental Technology and Energy Economics. Between 2008 and 2010 he was in parallel also the scientific managing director of the German Biomass Research Centre in , Germany.

Host: Prof. A. Steinfeld, www.prec.ethz.ch