Season's Greetings from Bio4Energy

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Created: Sunday, 30 December 2018 20:26

Written by Anna Strom

When the ice will not quite settle on the lake: Season's Greetings from Bio4Energy of Sweden. Photo by Anna Strom© 2018.

Happy New Year!

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Latest from Bio4Energy on Biorefinery R&D: Catalysis & Separation, Pre-processing & Pre-treatment

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Created: Friday, 19 October 2018 14:27

Written by Anna Strom

The Bio4Energy researchers meet twice a year to share their latest progress. This time the focus was on chemical catalysis and separation technologies, as well as the pre-processing of woody biomass and organic waste intended as raw material for biorefinery processes. They met 16 October at Umeå, Sweden.

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CO2 Capture & Conversion to Chemicals - Thai Bui	[ ]	413 kB
Economist Perspective on System Analysis - Runar Brännlund	[ ]	529 kB
Energy Systems Analysis to Compare Biofuel Production - Elisabeth Wetterlund	[ ]	197 kB
Food & biomass - Pre-treatement - Feng Chen	[ ]	1902 kB
Food & Biomass Production - Shaojun Xiong	[ ]	4080 kB
Imagine! A World without Fossil Fuels - Jyri-Pekka Mikkola	[ ]	3197 kB
Pre-processing & Pre-treatment of Biomass - Sylvia Larsson	[ ]	1198 kB
Process-ready Bio-based Assortments through Steam Explosion - Andreas Averheim	[ ]	770 kB

Bio4Energy Scientists Make First-ever Bio-based Equivalent of Carbon Black from Pyrolysis Oil

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Created: Thursday, 27 September 2018 14:47

Written by Anna Strom

Magnus Marklund, CEO at RISE Energy Technology Center, shows a sample of the "green" Black Carbon developed by his team in Bio4Energy and at RISE. Bio4Energy© 2018. Scientists in Bio4Energy have succeeded in making a bio-based equivalent of Carbon Black, one of the most widely used carbon-based industrial chemicals. Carbon Black forms when certain heavy petroleum products are incompletely burned, and there is an established process for making Carbon Black from fossil oil products in the petrochemical industry. The International Agency for Research on Cancer states that this material, which takes the form of a colloid, could “possibly” induce cancer and cause respiratory problems in humans. 

To the best of the Bio4Energy scientists' knowledge, the "green" equivalent of Carbon Black they have made is the first ever to be developed from pyrolysis oil.

In fact, the researchers at RISE Energy Technology Centre (RISE ETC), at Piteå, Sweden—part of the platform Bio4Energy Thermochemical Conversion Technologies—used pyrolysis oil made from renewable solid biomass in a high-temperature process developed in-house.

In experiments mimicking the petrochemical industry’s main production process for making Carbon Black, they sprayed pyrolysis oil into a reactor at high temperatures and the resulting material—that is, the “green” Carbon Black—was separated from the gaseous stream at cooling.

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Sweden Could Add Several Biorefineries without Great Increases in Price of Feedstock

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Created: Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:49

Written by Anna Strom

Robert Lundmark and Elisabeth Wetterlund of Bio4Energy are two of the authors behind a new report saying that large-scale biorefinery operations could be added in Sweden without major increases in the price of wood. Photo by Ted Karlsson, Luleå University of Technology. A new review report named Large-Scale Implementation of Biorefineries says that biorefinery—operations for making advanced biofuels and “green” chemicals—can be rolled out on a large scale in Sweden without jeopardising the production of traditional wood products or bringing substantial increases in the cost of raw materials from the forest.

“These are interesting findings in that we see that there is scope in Sweden for adding new large-scale biorefineries”, said the study lead author, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of Bio4Energy.

“We do not see that the price of feedstock would be forced upwards to any great extent”, he added.

Lundmark is one of Bio4Energy’s research leaders at the Luleå University of Technology (LTU) specialising in system analysis and bioeconomy and the report a review of a number of modelling studies designed to advise policy-makers and industrialists on options for, and implications of, expanding biorefinery production. The review study itself is a collaboration between Bio4Energy at the LTU, the International Institute for Applied System Analysis and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden.

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‘Fantastic Possibility’ to Promote Northern Sweden as Centre of Excellence for Development of Biomass Innovations

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Created: Monday, 20 August 2018 15:16

Written by Anna Strom

Francesco Gentili is the new coordinator for Bio4Energy's training course on the pilot and demonstration steps of biomass innovations. Photo by Bio4Energy.As of this year, Francesco Gentili coordinates Bio4Energy’s flagship course for student researchers and industry representatives on bringing biomass innovations to scale. Biorefinery Pilot Research is about to kick off in its third edition 27-29 August, with a first stop at the Bio4Energy partner RISE Energy Technology Center (RISE ETC) at Piteå.

Biorefinery Pilot Research is the first of two generic courses in the Bio4Energy Graduate School on the Innovative Use of Biomass. It is a model copy of the Bio4Energy Research Environment, with its unique access to research at the fundamental level and all the way up to demonstration of bio-based technologies on a near industrial scale.

A researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Umeå, Gentili is an agronomist specialised in the production of algae in northern climates and its upscaling. Since spring 2018, he is a member of the research and development platform Bio4Energy Wood Pre-processing.

Gentili has been the driving spirit behind laboratory-scale research to cultivate microalgae for the use of feedstock in biofuels and “green” chemicals, and the subsequent setting afoot of pilot facilities at Umeå, Sweden, on the premises of a regional energy utility, Umeå Energi.

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Happy Summer from Bio4Energy

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Created: Wednesday, 01 August 2018 16:18

Written by Anna Strom

Delsjon, Gothenburg in July. Photo by Anna Strom©2018.Bio4Energy wants to greet its researchers and partners—including the Industrial Network and stakeholders to the bio-based sector—and bid them happy summer. Or happy winter, if you are in the Southern Hemisphere. Thank you very much for your commitment.

Most of the Bio4Energy people are having a break until September, but not all.

August start for popular course on biorefinery pilots

Late August, Bio4Energy will be kicking off the third edition of its popular course for PhD and postdoctoral researchers: Biorefinery Pilot Research. It is one of two generic courses in the Bio4Energy Graduate School on the Innovative Use of Biomass.

What

The idea behind Biorefinery Pilot Research is to give students from the graduate level and up an overview of the pilot and demonstration facilities lining the coast of Sweden to the north and east. Those who take the course for credit will have the opportunity to apply what they learned to their own research. For instance, you may want to design a project where you scale up or scale down the technology you are working on, or to place it in the larger context of biorefinery development using wood or organic waste as a starting material. You will learn about tools for developing an innovation in the bio-based sector.

When

A first block of course starts 27 August 2018 at Piteå, Sweden, and the deadline for registration is 10 August. For more details go to the Biorefinery Pilot Research course page or view the course brochure (attached).

For Whom

• PhD and postdoctoral researchers interested in biorefinery from wood or organic waste.
• Industry representatives or members of the bio-based sectors wishing to gain or deepen their knowledge of bio-based innovation and pilot and demonstration facilities in northern Sweden designed for the purpose.

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Biorefinery Pilot Research Course Brochure 2018

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Biomass Conversion to Fuels, Life-cycle Assessment Discussed at Piteå

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Created: Thursday, 24 May 2018 15:52

Written by Anna Strom

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Alkali Catalysed Gasification – Albert Bach Oller	[ ]	1172 kB
Bio4Energy Traits Database – Access and Use – Sven-Olof Lundqvist	[ ]	898 kB
Biorefinery Pilot Research: Course Updates – Francesco Gentili	[ ]	419 kB
Camera and Laser-based Diagnostics for Entrained-flow Gasifiers – Yngve Ögren	[ ]	748 kB
Preparation of Modified Cellulose Nanofiber CO2 Absorbents – Jiayuan Wei	[ ]	1461 kB
Developments in Entrained-flow Gasification of Biomass - Rikard Gebart	[ ]	2461 kB
Household Bioenergy with Alternative Biomass Technologies – Ricardo Carvalho	[ ]	2122 kB
Life Cycle Analysis of Bio-based Processes and Products – Kavitha Shanmugam	[ ]	783 kB
Lytic Polysaccharide MonoOxygenases - Madhu Nair Muraleedharan	[ ]	995 kB
Synchrotron Research for Bio4Energy Researchers – Nils Skoglund & Mikael Thyrel	[ ]	2328 kB

TV4 Nyheterna: Snart är bensinen grön

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Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 13:26

Written by Christina Arneback, TV4 Nyheterna