BIOENERGY FOR EUROPE: WHICH ONES FIT BEST?

7.4 List of authors and addresses 169
7.4 List of authors and addresses
BLT – Federal Institute for Agricultural Engineering (Austria)
Marion Lechner: Born in 1968, studied biochemistry at the University of Vienna with a PhD in chemistry.
She has work on research projects dealing with the perspectives of vegetable oils as raw materials
for the oleochemical industry, the utilisation of biofuels and participated in the BIOFIT project. Since
1999 she is working as a formulation chemist in a private company. Marion Lechner prepared the detailed
life cycle graphs and the inventory lists and started with the data collection.
Renate Neumayr: Born in 1974 in Vienna/Austria, studied at the University of Agriculture, Forestry
and Renewable Natural Resources in Vienna and made her master degree in the studies of "Landscape
Architecture and Planning" on “Life Cycle Assessment of Sewage Sludge Treatment”. Fields of experience:
technical and environmental consultation; scientific research at the Austrian Association for Agricultural
Research in the fields of cultural landscape, renewable energy, sewage sludge, biogas and environmental
impact assessment. Renate Neumayr collected most of the Austrian data and prepared the
data for the calculation tool.
Josef Rathbauer: Born in 1964 in Schrick, a small village in the north-east of Austria. He studied at
the Agricultural University in Vienna, specialising in agriculture and plant production. He made his
master thesis in the field of biology and biodiversity of weeds. After one year as consultant in the field
of biomass fuelled district heating plants he changed in 1991 to the Federal Institute of Agricultural
Engineering. He is the head of the unit renewable raw materials and of the laboratory of the research
department. Fields of expertise: Production, standardisation and analysis of liquid and solid biofuels;
production chain of plant fibres; manure treatment and biogas production. Josef Rathbauer contributed
to the project frame, co-ordinated the life cycle description and the data collection and prepared the
Austrian data for the evaluation.
Manfred Wörgetter: Born in 1948 at Kufstein, Tirol (Austria). Study at the TU Graz, Faculty for Mechanical
Engineering, graduated with a mechanical engineering diploma. Since 1975 at the Federal
Institute for Agricultural Engineering; 25 years experience in biomass for energy and industry; head of
the department of agricultural engineering research and vice director of the institute. Responsible for the
Biomass Framework Programme of the Federal Ministry for Agriculture, leader of the working group
“Renewable Raw Materials” of the Ministry. Research work: (a) wood gasifier for farm tractors; (b)
vegetable oil as Diesel fuel (studies, bench and endurance tests); (c) Biodiesel (production, analysis,
bench, fleet and emission tests, standardisation, non-technical barriers); (d) solid biofuels from agriculture
and forestry (studies, research in combustion); (e) boiler tests (test methods, state of the art); (f)
participant in international research projects and networks: FAIR (96-1877, 97-3832, 98-3952); IEA
Bioenergy (Liquid Biofuels Task), ALTENER (AFB-net, NTB-net, NF-AIRID). Member of national
and European standardisation activities, member of conference committees (e.g. "International Conference
on Standardisation and Analysis of Biodiesel, "2nd European Motor Biofuels Forum, "Crops for a
GREEN Industry"). Manfred Wörgetter co-ordinated all the activities of BLT, contributed to the project
frame, prepared the selection methodology of the biofuels under study and the Austrian conclusions in
chapter 7.
CLM – Centre for Agriculture and Environment (Netherlands)
Anton Kool: Born in 1972 in Zevenhoven, The Netherlands on a mixed dairy and arable land farm.
After graduating high school in 1991 he started at the Agricultural University in Wageningen studying
Animal Sciences. During his study he was particularly interested in the relation animal husbandry and
environment. Because of that he did a thesis concerning nitrate leaching and a thesis concerning ammonia
volatilisation out of cattle stables. After graduating at the university in 1996 he started working as a
nutritionist. In 1998 he changed jobs and since then he works for CLM (Centre for Agriculture and
Environment) as a researcher. His work within this project concentrated on the environmental assess-