The BioMates project develops and validates an innovative, cost-competitive and environmentally superior pyrolysis and hydroprocrssing technology, rendering bio-based intermediates which can be directly integrated within existing oil refineries. The technological innovations assimilated in the project are expected to validate the low-cost production of high-quality bio-based intermediates (BioMates) which can be easily transported and integrated in oil refinery units.

The favourable production cost will be achieved via:

• Cheap, available, feedstock with no or very low generation of direct or indirect land-use change
• Decentralized Ablative Fast Pyrolysis (AFP)
• Single-step hydroprocessing of bio-oil
• Innovated hydroprocessing catalyst
• Electrochemical compression of recycled gas (rich in H₂)
• Renewable make-up H₂ (fed into the system to compensate for H2-losses and -consumption)

Moreover, the BioMates approach will provide a link of the rural areas that have significant potential for development with the EU refining industry that will be the end user of BioMates. As a result, there are several social benefits that the BioMates approach encompasses, which include:

• Enhancement of EU competitiveness
• Job creation in rural areas
• Secure energy supply / minimize imports