Value through intensive and efficient fibre supply (2010-2013)
Description
‘’Value Through Intensive and Efficient Fibre supply’’ program is direct continuation of ‘’Intelligent and resource efficient production technologies” program started in June 2008. The program provides new research based solutions to improve the competitiveness and quality aspects of forest based raw materials and to develop radically new energy – and resource efficient production technologies for chemical pulping including biorefinery aspects. The budget of this three year program is around € 11 million.
Background
Intelligent and resource efficient production technologies” (EffTech) is the first research program of Forestcluster Ltd. The five year program started in June 2008 and the first two years funding period is ended. The second phase of the EffTech program will continue as two separate but strongly interlinked programs, “Value Through Intensive and Efficient Fibre supply” (EffFibre) and “Efficient Networking Towards Novel Products and Processes” (EffNet). The division into two separate programs is done in order to sharpen the focus of work and to be able to add new participants in a flexible manner.
Objectives
The goals of the EffFibre -program are to increase availability and supply of high quality raw material from Finnish forests in a sustainable and cost-efficient manner, to improve the competitiveness on the whole forest cluster by developing radically new energy and resource efficient chemical pulping technologies and by fining means to reduce the capital intensiveness of the cluster.
Structure
EffFibre research Program consists of six Work Packages (WPs). WPs 1-3 focus is on finding sustainable and feasible measures to improve competitiveness of the domestic wood supply chain. Whereas WPs 4-6 focus is on develop radically new energy – and resource efficient production technologies for chemical pulping.
- WP1 - Functional Genomics of Wood Formation, (Teemu Teeri, UH)
- WP2 - Potential and feasibility of intensive wood and biomass production, (Jari Hynynen, Metla)
- WP3 - Operational efficiency of intensified wood production and supply, (Jarmo Hämäläinen, Metsäteho)
- WP4 - Novel two-stage Kraft oxygen-alkali process (Herbert Sixta, Aalto)
- WP5 - Virtual chemical pulping model (Tapani Vuorinen, Aalto)
- WP6 - Future pulp mill development (Janne Vehmaa, Andritz)
Governance
Management group
Members
- Kalle Einola, Ponsse
- Kalle Ekman, Stora Enso
- Lars Gädda, Forestcluster
- Jari Hynynen, Metla
- Mika Hyrylä, UPM
- Ari Kiviranta, M-real
- Kari Kovasin, Metsä-Botnia
- Olli Laitinen, Metsäliitto
- Erkki Peltonen, Myllykoski
- Hannu Ramark, Andritz
- Ismo Reilama, Metsä-Botnia
- Leif Robertsen, Kemira
- Päivi Uusitalo, Metso
- Tor Högnäs, Metsähallitus
Program manager
Pauliina Tukiainen, pauliina.tukiainen@vtt.fi, +358 (0) 40 5028 147
Content
EffFibre aims at resource-efficient production technology by examining ways to renew the production process and developing new unit processes based on advanced pulping technology utilizing domestic raw materials. The program provides research-based knowledge on the most feasible, cost-efficient and sustainable measures to intensify biomass supply. Focuses is on finding wood and biomass production alternatives which lower the costs of raw material supply, provide raw material with high utility value, are sustainable and environmental-friendly, are feasible to be applied on a large-scale in Finnish forestry. Emphasis is on potential of intensive wood production chains. The key targets for chemical pulping are to utilize special characteristics of northern wood species to generate new value chain and same time improve efficiency by increasing pulping yield and by reducing energy consumption and capital intensiveness. Sustainable and resource efficient pulp mill concepts research area will increase the fundamental knowledge of chemical pulping and provide novel simulation and techno-economical evaluation based tools for industrial process designs and decision-making. The phenomenal models to be created in within the program represent new knowledge in applicable form. The results of the scientific work will be transformed into sustainable and resource efficient mill concepts.
Main results
Publications
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