Secure your environment with UiPath and CyberArk technologies - Session 1
Standardization: Codifying and disseminating state of the art technology and best practices to the market
1. Standardization:
Codifying and disseminating state of the art
technology and best practices to the market
Biorefinery for Food, Fuel and Materials Harmen Willemse
April 10, 2013, Wageningen Consultant
NEN - Netherlands
Standardization Institute
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2. About NEN
35.000 standard users
1.400 committees
40.000 standards
€ 40 million turnover, 300 employees
280 international secretariats CEN and ISO
Private standardization
organisation since 1916
Founding member of CEN,
CENELEC, ISO and IEC
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3. NEN Energy resources
• Standards development in energy market:
– Solid, liquid & gaseous (bio)fuels
– Gas (CNG, LNG), Biogas, Biomethane
– Sustainability
– Oil, (petro)chemical & gas Technology
– Pipeline and distrubution systems
– Energy management, Asset management
– Hydrogen & Fuel cell Technology
– Biobased products
– Smart cities, Smart grids, Electrical vehicles
– Wind, Tidal and Solar power systems
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4. Standardization
• A standard is a voluntary agreement amongst market
parties
• Starting points for standards development
– All parties concerned
– Agreements based on consensus
– Open & transparent process
• Purposes
– Facilitating trade & interoperability
– Self-regulation
– Health, safety, environment
– Image
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7. Characteristics Bio-based Economy
• Science based, so highly knowledge intensive
• Relatively high R&D intensity, so very innovative
sector
• Heterogeneous value chains: the variety in
downstream industrial applications
• Competition with the bioenergy sector for biomass
resources
• Most technologies in early stages of lifecycle
• Need for new cooperation: chemical industry and
agriculture
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8. Three phases in the innovation diffusion process
Ortt and Schoormans (2004)
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9. Iterations of standard setting process.
Standards:
R&D-related standards for
-Definition standards
First Standardisation phase -Measurement and testing
-Reference models
Performance & interface standards
Second Standardisation phase
Application-specific standards
Descriptive standards
Third Standardisation phase
Development-Related Standardisation (adapted from Blind, 2004, p.188)
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10. Bio-based products: European Mandates for
standardization
M/429
BTWG 209
BTWG 209
Bio-based
Bio-based
products*
products*
M/430 M/430 M/491 M/491
M/492
CEN/TC 19
CEN/TC 19 CEN/TC 276
CEN/TC 276 CEN/TC 411
CEN/TC 411
Gaseous and liquid CEN/TC 249
CEN/TC 249
Gaseous and liquid Surface Active
Surface Active Bio-based
Bio-based
fuels, lubricants and Plastics
Plastics
fuels, lubricants and Agents
Agents products
products
related products of
related products of
petroleum, synthetic
petroleum, synthetic
and biological origin
and biological origin
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* Disbanded in August 2010
11. Mandates
M/492 Mandate for the development of horizontal
European standards and other standardization deliverables
for bio-based products
M/491 Mandate for the development of European
standards and technical specifications and/or technical
reports for bio-surfactants and bio-solvents in relation to
bio-based product aspects
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12. Mandates on bio-based products
CEN/BT accepted Mandates M/491 and M/492 in May 2011
and decided:
• TC 276 “Surface active agents” to work on bio-
surfactants
• New TC 411 “Bio-based products” to work on horizontal
standards and bio-solvents
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13. CEN/TC 411 Bio-based products
Develop standards for bio-based products covering
horizontal aspects. This includes:
•Terminology
•Determination of bio-based carbon content
•Determination of bio-based content
•Specific sustainability criteria
•Specific Life-Cycle Analysis Guidance
•Bio-solvents aspects in relation to bio-based
products
•Specific declaration and certification tools
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14. CEN/TC 411 Working Groups
• WG 1 Terminology
• WG 2 Bio-solvents
• WG 3 Bio-based content
• WG 4 Sustainability criteria, life cycle analysis and
related issues
• WG 5 Certification and declaration tools
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15. Support to standardization for bio-based
products
• Knowledge Based Bio-based Products' Pre-
Standardization
• Project duration: 3 years
• Part of EU FP7-KBBE work program
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16. Project objectives
• Faster growth of the bio-based product industry
• Increased share of bio-based in the total use of final
(consumer) products and intermediates up to 2020
and beyond.
• By facilitating the development and improvement of
standards and their related certification systems.
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17. Impact of standards on BBP
• Reduce trade barriers
• Promote development of a pan-European market
• Improved quality and sustainability
• Increased end-user satisfaction and economic
viability
• Transparency about sourcing, bio-content,
(comparative) functionality
• Increased public acceptance
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18. Project Partners
Participant Country
Netherlands Standardization Institute NL
Stichting Energy research Centre Netherlands NL
Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence at the UK
University of York
nova-Institut DE
Organic Waste Systems BE
Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek, NL
Institute Food & Bio-based Research
Agricultural University of Athens GR
19. Work Packages
• WP1 - Project Management (NEN)
• WP2 – Stakeholder consultation and dissemination
(nova Institute)
• WP3 – Bio-based carbon content (ECN)
• WP4 – Biomass content (Univ. York )
• WP5 – Bottlenecks and impacts on functionality
tests (nova Inst)
• WP6 – Biodegradability (OWS)
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21. Example: Determination of Bio-based carbon
content
KBBPPS WP 3: Bio-based CEN/TC 411 WG 3: Biobased
carbon content content
•Development of sampling and test
methodology for the determination
of biogenic carbon in a wide variety • Standardization of a method
of product types or streams determining the bio-based
•Assessment of improving sampling carbon content of products
methodology in line with those for • Standardization of a method
overall biomass content determining the bio-based
determination content of products, other than
•Incorporation of the possibility to bio-based carbon content
obtain a horizontal methodology
•Reproducibility check of the test
methodology
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22. Sampling and biogenic carbon determination
KBBPPS CEN/TC 411
Description of Existing
horizontal standards
methods
Capture in
Technical
verification of Specification
the method
applicability
Definition of
scope of EN
interlaboratory standard
rugedness
tests for
precision Publication of
determination EN standard
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23. Example 2: biodegradability of biosolvents
KBBPPS WP 6: Biodegradability CEN/TC 411 WG 2:
Biosolvents
•Report on current relevant
biodegradation and ecotoxicity • Development of standards for
standards for bio-lubricants and solvents, covering product
biosolvents. functionality (performance),
•Review of current biodegradation toxicity, ecotoxicity,
test methods in different biodegradability, safety
environments • If necessary, product specific
•Existing test procedures for and sustainability aspects not
evaluating environmental safety. covered under another
•Difficulties and gaps in the current CEN/TC 411 working group.
test methods
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26. Conclusions
• Moving into the second phase of its first technology
lifecycle
• Only a fraction of the standards that will eventually
govern the development of bio-based chemicals are
already in place
• Now is a crucial time for standardisation
• Basic standards which affected the rest of the
technology life cycle come into existence
• Foundations for further development of bio-based
products are established
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