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National Activities - Nordic Region
New, innovative pretreatment of Nordic wood for cost-effective fuel-ethanol production
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Wood (Lignocellulose)
Introduction
PFI is developing technology for cost effective production of woodbased fuel components for the
transportation sector. Today, the technology for producing fuel-ethanol from lignocellulose is known.
This process is, however, currently limited by high cost, low efficiency and low yield.
PFI's biofuel research is focused on producing value-added fuel components and other products
from wood lignin and extractives in a bi-reffinery concept where all wood components contribute to
the economy of the overall process. The project aims to develop
novel pretreatment techniques that will reduce the overall production costs, thus making fuel-ethanol
from Nordic wood biomass cost competitive.
The project, started in 2007 will run to 2010, with a total budget of 11.3 MNOK, with
Nordic Energy Research contributing 8 MNOK (71 %) (1NOK = 0.13 euro).
Activities
The aim is to develop:
- a fundamental understanding of the chemical and physical mechanisms that occur
during wood pretreatment that will improve the overall economy of bioethanol production by
reducing the degradation of cellulose and hemi-cellulose into materials that are not suitable for
ethanol production and minimizing the formation of by-products that are inhibitors to the
subsequent hydrolysis and fermentation of sugar, thus enabling the design of pretreatment
processes that match a specific biomass feedstock .
- predictive pretreatment models that will enable the selection, design,
optimization and process control that will match biomass feedstock with the
appropriate method and process configuration
- reduced cost bioethanol by co-localization or integration with an existing industry infrastructure
such as a pulp mill or an oil refinery and/or by integrating conversion processes and
equipment to co-produce bioethanol and other value-added products from biomass in a biorefinery.
Participants
- Paper and Fibre Research Institute, Norway
- Prokaria EHF, Israel
- STFI-Packforsk AB, Sweden
- SINTEF, Norway
- VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland
- Lunds Technical University, Sweden
- Novozymes, Denmark
- ETEK, Sweden
- Norwegian Forest Owners, Norway
- Statoil, Norway
- Norske Skog, Norway
- Boregaard, Norway
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