The Bioeconomy Hub: Innovative Products from Biomass

The Bioeconomy Hub: Innovative products from biomass

Tim Caldecott and Douglas Singbeil Opportunities are everywhere! Building new connections and supply chain is the challenge.

Composites

Aerospace

Food & Beverage Energy Automotive Fiber Construction

Fibre supply chains need to be short and optimized. Better to process the biomass at a hub and send semi-finished or finished products to market.

Pulp/paper biofuels

Sweet spot Market size

Specialty chemical and materials

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New Wood Attributes • “green” substitutes • Light-weighting • Stronger • Stretchable • Improved aesthetics • New attributes • Not necessarily cheaper

Products & Markets - Expanding the Value Chain Transformation Traditional Products Emerged Products Emerging Products Product Platforms

CNC, Cellulose filaments, PaperPaper Mills Mills Packaging New specialty Newsprint grades, Hygiene Micro- fibrillated cellulose; Advanced applications Publishing & non-wovens Composites using fibres and for Fibres and Cellulose8 Substrate, Biomaterials Tissue biomaterials Chemical Pulp Green Power, Mills Market Kraft Chemicals PF resins for plywood /EWP Pulp Tall oil, from Tall Oil Mining dispersants Turpentine, Fracking resins Mechanical Dissolving Pulp Kraft Lignin Products Pulp Mills Lignin Polyurethane rigid foam; Extraction Bio-plastics, Carbon Fibres Market High Yield Pulp

Forests and Biomass, boilers Bio-energy & chemicals including Process Residues Pellets intermediates; Torrefied pellets Residue-based Products Bark & other composites Wood fibre insulation Plywood OSB EWP Mills Panels Multi-attribute Panels CLT Advanced Wood Products Insulation solutions & Systems Sawmills Lumber Hybrid /tall building solutions

Natural biocides; Maximizing the Value and and use of Fibre Maximizing the Value Harvesting Aromatics; Extractive-based Products Exports Nutraceuticals, food additives; Pharmaceuticals

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Adhesive (binding) properties Foundry resins

Chemicals High chemical derivatization Resins & modifiers potential

Hydrophobic Thermoplastics Antioxidant Dispersive Antiozonant & Composites properties properties

Dispersant / Flocculent Packaging High carbon density Sunscreen & Activated carbon Shampoos Carbon fiber Carbon black

fibres

CNC

Deconstruct Release

Wood chips 1000 kg

Separate

Lignin Sugars 450 kg 450 kg

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• Demand for biomaterials— CNCs, CFs, Pulp Fibres, Wood Flour, Lignin • Sustainability • Biocompatibility • Functionality • Printability

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Risky and long but rewarding That’s us!

“The path to improve returns in material commercialization”, by M. Boren et al. (Aug. 2012) Look at time scale

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New biomass New Process

Bark, residues New product

Existing steam Bark plant

Softwood Existing P&P or saw mill P&P, solid wood Existing effluent Shared infrastructure treatment

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Highest value products will be made from expensive feedstock. Energy products will come from residues… and residues will come from higher value products:

Feed material

Existing and Extract new higher value value products

Identify remaining Residue value Heat, power, fuels

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. Technology developers • Often don’t know forest industry (isn’t fibre free?) . Fibre suppliers • Don’t have links to their new customers • Need to understand specialty markets and supply chains . End customers • Already have established supply chains they trust • Materials in end products come with warranties and guaranties • Performance and cost sensitive

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. Port of Rotterdam expects to receive 8 Mt/y pellets by 2020 . Plans in place to build a Bio- Port on 80 hectares of land . Vision is for a chemical plant processing 2-4 Mt/y pellets by 2022

. Products will be sugars, sugar-derived chemicals, lignin, polyphenols and aromatics