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Large-scale biorefinery at Bio4Energy industrial partner Domsjö Fabriker, at Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. Photo by courtesy of Domsjö Fabriker.
Bio4Energy has seven research platforms, each of which corresponds to a link in the biorefinery value chain.
Bio4Energy is a research environment that develops methods and tools for operating the biorefinery value chain from A to Z. There are five "process" platforms. Their members work to provide science to ensure that all steps of that chain may be run in an economically, environmentally and a socially sustainable way. In addition, there is one Process Integration Platform that serves to link up the work carried out across the others, and one Environmental Platform to check that Bio4Energy's credentials are as "green" as they are claimed to be. Bio4Energy notably aims to align its operations on sustainability criteria set out under the European Union's 2009 renewable energy directive. As far as possible, these efforts should pave the way for Bio4Energy's industrial partners to design products that are energy efficient and emit no or a minimum of noxious emissions, including no or low climate-change inducing and toxic output. The feedstock in processes developed by Bio4Energy is sourced from forests or oganic waste and so not from biomass which might be used for food production. Biofuels and other products developed by Bio4Energy are second generation or more advanced.
In Bio4Energy platform leaders and their closest helpers are called principal investigators. These PIs have are listed under the respective platform banners below, as well as their co-workers on Bio4Energy dossiers.
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We thank Bio4Energy, a strategic research environment appointed by the Swedish government, for supporting this work.
Feedstock Platform
Forest growth – a northern resource.
The research in the Bio4Energy Feedstock Platform aims at:
Increasing the quantity and quality of plant biomass and;
Developing efficient processes for conversion of biomass to valuable products and energy.
Platform leader is Björn Sundberg at the Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), both Sweden. His office is located at the UPSC premises of the Chemical-Biological Centre at Umeå University (UmU).
Said Sundberg: "Our research is focused on the developmental and biosynthetic regulation of secondary xylem-wood formation. Wood biomass, fibre morphology, and ultrastructure and chemistry of cell walls are all industrially important properties determined during the wood-forming process. Specific targets of our research are the physiological function and downstream signalling of endogenous ethylene in wood formation, cellulose biosynthesis in wood fibres, and novel tools for wood phenotyping".
The following researchers are part of the B4E Feedstock Platform:
UmU/UPSC
Phone
Office location
Per Gardeström
Johannes Hanson
Henrik Serk
Benjamin Bollhöner
Hannele Tuominen
Eduard Pesque
SLU/UPSC
Björn Sundberg
+46 90-786 8382
UmU KBC/UPSC: KB5C8
Urs Fisher
Lorenz Gerber
David Öhman
Junko Takahshi
Miramirhossein Mahboubi
Prashant Pawar
Daniela Liebsch
Totte Nittylä
Kjell Olofsson
Ewa Mellerowitcz
SLU
Henrik Bohlenius
Xu Jin
Innventia (R&D consultants)
Sven-Olof Lundqvist
Thomas Gran
Lars Olsson
Åke Hansson
Thomas Trost
Pre-treatment and fractionation
Leading technologies provide well-defined, fractionated biomass for further upgrading
The Bio4Energy Pretreatment and Fractionation Platform is a leader in the area of research on:
Maximally prepared biomass sourced from forests or organic waste and;
The use of tree cell-wall polymers as raw material for producing electrictiy, heat, biofuels and higher value-added co-products, employing biorefinery methods.
Platform leader is Kristiina Oksman of Luleå University of Technology (LTU), in northern Sweden.
Video courtesy of LTU/viavasterbotten.
The following researchers are part of the B4E Pretreatment and Fractionation Platform:
Material Sciences' Division, LTU
Phone
Office location
Kristiina Oksman
+46 92-049 3371
LTU E170a
Aji Mathew
Martha Herrera
Mehdi Jonoobi
Yvonne Aitomäki
Unit of Biomass Technology and Chemistry, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Torbjörn Lestander
Sylvia H. Larsson
Mikael Thyrel
Magnus Rudolfsson
Energy Technology and Thermal Process Chemistry, Umeå University
Anders Nordin
Linda Pommer
Martin Nordwaeger
Susanne Wiklund Lundström
Thermochemical
Development of thermal technologies based on gasification and combustion.
Researchers on the Bio4Energy Thermochemical Platform have set out to develop a complete set of experimentally validated sub-models that can be combined in different ways to predict all technologically important processes for thermal conversion of biomass, including reactions with containment materials.
Platform leader is Rikard Gebart, of Luleå University of Technology (LTU) and of the Swedish Gasification Centre.
The following researchers are part of the B4E Thermochemical Platform:
Energy Technology and Thermal Process Chemistry, Umeå University
Rainer Backman
Dan Boström
Marcus Broström
Christoffer Boman
Nils Skoglund
Henrik Hagman
Energy Technology Centre at Piteå (Research and development consultants)
Magnus Marklund
Henrik Winiika
Per Carlsson
Marcus Lidman
Ulla Jonsson
LTU
Rikard Gebart
Marcus Öhman, Bio4Energy Vice Programme Manager
Kentaro Umeki
Mikael Risberg
Burak Göktepe
Charlie Ma
Daniel Nordgren
Per Gren
Henrik Lycksam
Amit Biswas
Biochemical platform
Development of novel biocatalysts and bioprocesses
On Bio4Energy's Biochemical Platform researchers develop new biocatalysts and bioprocesses designed for efficient conversion of lignocellulose into commodities such as second-generation biofuels, "green" chemicals and bio-based materials.
Platform leader is Leif Jönsson of Umeå University.
The following researchers are part of the Bio4Energy Biochemical Platform:
Umeå University
Phone
Office location
Leif Jönsson
+46 90 7866811; +46 660 57100
UmU: Chemistry B, 6th fl., 10 Linnaeus Rd, Umeå, SE
Sandra Winestrand
Thomas Gillgren
Adnan Cavka
Venkata P. Soudham
Anna Wallenius
Monica Normark
He Jun
Madhavi Latha
Guochao Wu
Luleå University of Technology
Kris Berglund
Ulrika Rova
Jonas Helmerius
Josefine Enman
Magnus Sjöblom
Mireille Ginesy
Catalysis and Separation Platform
The Bio4Energy Catalysis and Separation Platform is at the helm of a world-leading centre for fundamental research on novel integrated catalysis and separation processes designed for lignocellulosics-based biorefinery. The research is highly multidisciplinary encompassing catalysis, materials development and integrated separation processes.
Platform leader is Jonas Hedlund of Luleå University of Technology (LTU).
Radio spot in Swedish courtesy of Swedish public radio, Sveriges Radio P4 Norrbotten.
The following reserachers are part of the Bio4Energy Catalysis and Separation Platform.
LTU
Phone
Office location
Jonas Hedlund
+46 92 049 2105
LTU Sustainable Process Engineering, C166
Erik Sjöberg
Fateme Rezaei
Caroline Häggström
Umeå University
Natalia Bukhanko
William Larsson
Mikhail Golets
Johan Ahlkvist
Dilip Raut
Anjana Sarkar
Gordon Driver
Krisztián Kordás
Ajaikumar Samikannu
John Gräsvik
Jyri-Pekka Mikkola
Process Integration Platform
The Bio4Energy Process Integration Platform provides systematic and general methods for designing integrated production systems, ranging from individual processes to total sites, to aid in the development of effective biorefinery concepts. There is a special special emphasis on energy and resource efficiency.
Platform leader is Jan Dahl, who is seconded by Joakim Lundgren, both of of Luleå University of Technology (LTU).
The following researchers are part of the Bio4Energy Process Integration Platform:
LTU
Phone
Office location
Jan Dahl
+46 92 049 1243
LTU Energy Science, E153
Joakim Lundgren
+46 92 049 1307
LTU Energy Science, E134
Andrea Toffolo
Jim Andersson
Carl Erik Grip
Xiaoyan Ji
Erik Elfgren
Johan Sandberg
Robert Lundmark
Anna Olsson
Johan Brolund
Environmental Platform
Make waste products and surplus of energy useful for other processes.
The Bio4Energy Environmental Platform has set out to create an environmentally sound and a sustainable biorefinery processes which should operate with high energy efficiency and a minimum of environmental pollutants and waste products.
This is a graduate-level course arranged by the European Integrated Project NEMO in collaboration with BIOREGS, Bio4Energy and Umeå University, Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, 23-25 May, 2012. To attend, please contact Jennie Söderström at
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or on phone number +46 660-75049.
Bio4Energy Research Platforms
Large-scale biorefinery at Bio4Energy industrial partner Domsjö Fabriker, at Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. Photo by courtesy of Domsjö Fabriker.
