More recently, the concept of integrated forest biorefinery (IFBR) has received much attention as a promising solution for the struggling forest industry in North America and Europe to overcome its difficult financial period and competes globally. This new business paradigm offers a broad range of potentially attractive products, from bioenergy to value-added green organic chemicals in addition...

J-FOR Journal of Science & Technology for Forest Products and Processes: VOL.1, NO.3, 2011 48 In recent years, the forest biorefinery has been identified and proposed as an opportunity for pulp and paper mills to improve their profitability. The implementation of biorefinery units will have an impact on the energy requirements of the receptor mill, and the energy consumption of the biorefinery ...

The biorefinery is generally recognized as a promising solution to transform the forestry industry. From a company perspective, at least two important decision-making elements need to be addressed: what is the best biorefinery configuration in terms of product/process portfolio, supply-chain network, capacity and manufacturing flexibility, and, for a defined biorefinery configuration, what supp...

This paper presents an overview of certain emerging biorefinery process options, and highlights the complex and ambiguous decision-making challenges that mills will face who would like to consider implementing the biorefinery. While most biorefinery developments have focused on process technologies, it is critical a) to first define the specific products that the mill should seek to produce con...

existing assets and pursuing new product development. The strategy to achieve these objectives while mitigating risk is far from obvious. The “titans” of the natural resource industries, as the President of Domtar calls DuPont and other leading manufacturing companies, typically achieve good returns over the long term through product development. On a continuous basis, these companies typically...

Sweden has the goal of reaching a fossil independent transportation sector by 2030. Two ways to reach the goal is to increase the use of electric vehicles or produce more biofuels. Both alternatives could be powered by forest residue, which is an underutilized resource in the country. Electricity could be produced in a biomass fired Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant, and biofuel could be prod...

A simple biofuel production system can be first examined for its policy 8 compliance in terms of GHG emission reduction target relative to fossil-based 9 counterparts. More integrated and optimised biorefinery systems with polygeneration 10 can then be evolved with the aid of graphical analysis of marginal emission savings 11 vs. additional economic margins. This bottom-up approach helps to ach...

The forest biorefinery (FBR) is emerging as a possibility for improving the business model of forest product companies, however introduces significant challenges in terms of market, technological, and financial risks which can be addressed to an important extent in the design of supply chains (SC). For sustainable decision-making regarding biorefinery strategies, criteria from different perspec...

Research barriers continue to exist in all phases of the emerging cellulosic ethanol biorefining industry. These barriers include the development of sustainable and abundant biomass feedstock, the assembly of viable assembly systems formatting the feedstock and moving it from the field (e.g., the forest) to the biorefinery, and improving conversion technologies. Each of these phases of cellulos...

In this study we analyse economic policy support for biofuels, with the aim to determine the amount of support necessary to make investments in a gasification based biorefinery producing DME (dimethyl ether) profitable for a pulp and paper mill. As a case the integrated Swedish pulp and paper mill of Billerud Karlsborg is studied, using mixed integer linear programming and different future ener...