Agenda 2020
Advancing the Forest Biorefinery
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IFPB Research Components
To best develop and implement the diverse enabling technologies,
Agenda 2020 is pursuing partnerships and funding to advance
three component areas:
• Sustainable Forest Productivity
applies biotechnology and nanotechnology breakthroughs to
sustainable forestry to manage US forest land at a high intensity
to supply affordable, sustainable biomass supplies of high
quality. This research focuses on developing fast-growing
biomass plantations designed to produce economic, high-quality
feedstocks for bio-energy and bio-products. From an energy
“life-cycle” perspective, these feedstocks will
be vastly superior to agricultural crops or residues.
• Value Prior to Pulping seeks
cost-effective, high-yield processes to separate and extract
selected components from wood prior to pulping, and to process
the extracted components to produce commercially viable chemical
and liquid fuel products. Researchers are particularly interested
in extracting hemicellulose from wood chips prior to pulping
for use as a biochemical feedstock. In the current mill, hemicelluloses
are not effectively utilized.
• New Value Streams from Residuals
and Spent Pulping Liquors addresses the opportunity
to manufacture bio-products from the co-products of the pulping
process. The objective is to use gasification technologies
to convert biomass, including forest residues and spent pulping
liquor (black liquor), into a synthetic gas (syngas), which
subsequently is converted into liquid fuels, power, chemicals
(including hydrogen) and other high-value materials. These
IFPB processes will maximize utilization of energy streams
and minimize waste.
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