Case Study SUSTOIL Project

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Case Study SUSTOIL Project
Dr Fabien Deswarte FP7 Information Day 30th
September Darlington
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What is SUSTOIL?
(SUSTainable OIL)
Developing advanced Biorefinery schemes for
integration into existing oil production/transeste
rification plants

• 2 year project ( 1st June 2008 31st May 2010)
• Total cost of the project is 1,009,314.00 Euros

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What is SUSTOIL?
? SUPPORT ACTION
- Does not support research, technological
development or demonstration activities
Define future research agenda

• Aim to identify main technological challenges
  knowledge gaps
• Lead to the development of new cooperative
  networks

On-going/completed research
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Why SUSTOIL?

• - Rising oil prices
• - Growing scarcity of petroleum
• - Growing concerns about CO2 emissions / climate
  change

Need to develop long term strategy that recognise
the potential of biomass
PRODUCTION OF CHEMICAL PRODUCTS
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Why SUSTOIL?
Bio-based industrial products can only compete
with petro-chemically based products if the raw
materials are optimally exploited and a variety
of value-creating chains are developed
? M. Kamm, B Kamm
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Objectives

• To identify innovative and clean technologies,
  which allow maximal utilisation of the side
  streams generated throughout oil crop supply
  chains
• To identify the most promising energy and
  bio-products which can be derived from oil-rich
  crops by complete utilisation of the plant
• To develop advanced biorefinery schemes
• To investigate the potential of integrating
  these into existing vegetable oil processing
  plants

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Objectives

• To ascertain the sustainability of the various
  developed schemes
• To develop various policy scenarios to gain a
  better understanding of any potential
  environmental, economic and policy constraints
  the biorefinery sector could face
• To disseminate the knowledge gained during the
  project through a dedicated website
  (www.sustoil.org)
• To organise two workshops and one final
  conference.

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SUSTOIL Partners
Large scale and multidisciplinary consortium
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Advisory Board
Global membership
- Prof Tony Bridgewater Aston University, UK - Dr
Geraint Evans NNFCC, UK - Christophe Luguel IAR,
France - Prof. Ian Graham CNAP EPOBIO, UK - Dr
Hans Grundberg Processum, Sweeden - Dr Elizabeth
Milsom Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
- Dr Martin Patel Utrecht University, NL - Prof.
Larry Johnson Iowa State University, US - Prof.
Andrew Proctor University of Arkansas, US -
Felipe Coutinho Petrobras, Brazil - Dr Hosein
Shapouri USDA, US - Dr Andre Laroche Agric. and
Agri-Food Canada
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BIOREF-INTEG
(1st June 2008 - 31st May 2010)
Developing advanced biorefinery schemes to be
integrated into existing fuel producing
complexes.
Coordinator Dr Hamid Mozaffarian (ECN)

• - Joint electronic newsletter (6 monthly)
• - Joint dissemination conference
• Links to each others project website
• Making use of each others stakeholder contacts
  to send around project related information.

Close collaboration with other relevant projects
including BIOPOL, Biorefinery Euroview and EPOBIO.
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General organisation
UoY
FORTH
WU
UP
UoY
UNIMAN
UoF
UoY
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SUSTOIL Website
www.sustoil.org
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FP7 projects - Challenges Benefits

• Challenges
• Extremely bureaucratic
• Highly risky
• Building the right consortium
• Benefits
• Potential new networks and contracts
• Elevated profile
• Information about future trends in research
• Part funding for research (for company)

May 07
June 08
Dec 07
Mid Sept 07
deadline for submission
letter of offer
call launch
project start
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Evaluation Criteria
Impact
Implementation
S/T Quality Excellence
3/5
3/5
3/5
Relevance
OVERALL
- Very competitive ? aim for 15/15 - Call
FP7-Energy-2007-RTD - only 42 out of 223
projects that passed all evaluation thresholds
were funded.
10/15
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Impact
Implementation
S/T Quality Excellence

• Your concept and objectives must directly
  address the call, no more, no less

• More is a loss of focus
• Less fails to response to the call requirements

• Make your concept simple and easy to understand
  (supply a glossary if necessary)

• Ensure that your objectives are clearly
  identified and achievable

• Address the state of the art

conferences, scientific publications, technology
platforms, Cost Actions and ERA-Net, RD project
(Biomatnet)
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Impact
Implementation
S/T Quality Excellence

• Explain your plan in words AND graphics

• Separate in work packages
• articulate your work plan (Pert Chart)
• Plan your tasks (Gantt Chart)
• List milestones and deliverables
• Use professional software for graphs
• Analyse the risks and provide a contingency plan

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Impact
Implementation
S/T Quality Excellence

• Illustrate with an organigramme

• Describe
• - Decision mechanisms
• How to solve difficulties
• Make it simple (you will have to live with it...)

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Impact
Implementation
S/T Quality Excellence
Same layout for all participants
Brief description
Misconception - I will add a random new member
state just to please the Commission and get
funded!
Experience
Main task assumed in the project
Key people involved
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Impact
Implementation
S/T Quality Excellence

• Role of partners show key competences and
  complimentarity

Have you identified the role of the
coordinator? Can you demonstrate relevant
management experience? Have you explained the
consortium structure? Is the consortium well
balanced and does it match the complexity and
scale of the project? Why is a European dimension
necessary?
A small map helps!
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Impact
Implementation
S/T Quality Excellence

• Illustrate a critical mass of resources?
• Partners have the appropriate equipment?
• Illustrate integrated financial planning?
• - Illustrate integrated project planning?

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Impact
Implementation
S/T Quality Excellence
Refer not only to the call, but also the entire
work programme

• Not to be neglected, alls points need to be
  covered
• Dissemination
• exploitation of project results
• IPR management
• Spreading excellence
• Dissemination knowledge through stakeholder and
  public engagement

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Key messages

• Do not underestimate the amount of time required
  to put a proposal together and negotiate the
  contract with the Commission
• Put evaluators on your side! Proposal should be
  concise and easy to read
• Proposal should consist of the right consortium
  for the project (e.g. manageable size, each
  partner should play a significant role)
• Discuss budget early (researcher and
  administration should both be involved) and meet
  with consortium partners
• Get as much help as you can from ENERGIE
  Helpline UK, UKRO, EU Commission and people
  outside your field
• Press SUBMIT! (submit early versions and update
  it from time to time...)

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Thanks for your attention!
Dr Fabien Deswarte SUSTOIL coordinator (feid100_at_yo
rk.ac.uk)