Dr-ing Daniela Thrän
professor
Department of Bioenergy
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Germany
Biography
Dr-Ing Daniela Thrän is an engineer and Head of the Department of Bioenergy at the UFZ in Leipzig. She is also Head of the Bioenergy Systems Department at the German Biomass Research Centre (DBFZ) in Leipzig. She holds the chair for Bioenergy Systems at the University of Leipzig and is co-spokesperson for the "EnergyLandUse" integrated project in the Helmholtz "Terrestrial Environment" research programme. Daniela Thrän has been a member of the Bioeconomy Council since September 2012. She represents Germany on the ISO Committee "Biogenic Solid Fuels", is a member of the Energy Council for Saxony, coordinator of accompanying research for the "Biomass Energy Use" funding programme of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and Head of Scientific Accompanying Research in the "Bioeconomy Cluster" (2012 - 2017). She has been working for two more years in the Extended Leadership Council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) since January 2017.
Research Interest
energy, biofuels, bio economy, biogeneic solid fuels
Publications
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Horschig, T., Adams, P.W.R., Röder, M., Thornley, P., Thrän, D., (2016): Reasonable potential for GHG savings by anaerobic biomethane in Germany and UK derived from economic and ecological analyses Appl. Energy 184 , 840 - 852
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Brosowski, A., Thrän, D., Mantau, U., Mahro, B., Erdmann, G., Adler, P., Stinner, W., Reinhold, G., Hering, T., Blanke, C., (2016): A review of biomass potential and current utilisation – Status quo for 93 biogenic wastes and residues in Germany Biomass Bioenerg. 95 , 257 - 272
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Billig, E., Thrän, D., (2016): The future trend of biomass to methane conversion technologies - a learning curve approach In: Wong, J.W.C., Tyagi, R.D., Selvam, A., (eds.) Conference Proceedings : Asia-Pacific Conference on Biotechnology for Waste Conversion 2016 (BioWC 2016), 5th - 8th December 2016, Hong Kong SAR, P.R. China Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, p. 54 - 56
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Billig, E., Thrän, D., (2016): Evaluation of biomethane technologies in Europe – technical concepts under the scope of a Delphi-Survey embedded in a multi-criteria analysis Energy 114 , 1176 - 1186
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Batidzirai, B., Junginger, M., Klemm, M., Schipfer, F., Thrän, D., (2016): Biomass supply and trade opportunities of preprocessed biomass for power generation In: Lamers, P., Searcy, E., Hess, R.J., Stichnothe, H., (eds.) Developing the global bioeconomy: technical, market, and environmental lessons from bioenergy Elsevier, London, p. 91 - 114
