About the group
A network without frontiers
Biomass Conversion Research Group was established in 2008 to support the science and technology
goals of Pakistan. It is a virtual centre headquartered at COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore
Campus, providing a platform of cooperation between national and international units, members and
groups to advance technology for producing fuels, chemicals, materials, foods and feeds, and power
from biomass and all variety of wastes.
Aims
To apply engineering sciences, technologies, modelling and simulation, and artificial neural
networks to the development of advanced processes — producing power and electricity,
liquid and gaseous fuels, chemicals and materials from natural sources, wastes and renewable
resources.
Mission
To develop economically viable, technologically sound and environmentally attractive means of
using biomass, plants and all renewable resources — and together to shift the raw
material basis of modern society away from fossil resources to renewables.
Objectives
- Biobased technologies for materials, chemicals and fuels.
- Biorefining and agricultural ecosystems in an integrated context.
- Resource-productive soils for a mature biobased economy.
- Processes for using the entire barrel of biomass.