Description
The approach of AFORE project is to develop novel, industrially adaptable and techno-economically viable bio-based solutions for the separation, fractionation, and primary upgrading of green chemicals from forest residues, wood chips, and chemical pulping liquors to be used as starting materials for current and novel value-added applications. It is targeted that by this means European forest and pulping industry can substantially increase its profitability and overall income within 10 years with positive impact on the waste formation and sustainability of the process. The project will focus on two paths, namely upgrading the current kraft pulping process into a multi-product biorefinery concept and development of entirely new wood-based biorefinery concepts, in which the wood cellulose is exploited in value-added applications with simultaneous production of a multitude of novel non-cellulosic products. The success of the technological developments will be evaluated using different modelling and assessment tools and by pilot and mill scale demonstrations. The techno-economical evaluations will also include a thorough investigation of how the new side-stream -based value chains will affect the current end-uses (mainly energy) as well as the environmental footprint of production. The multidisciplinary project consortium consists of research and industrial partners covering the whole value chain from wood to end products. The expertises of the partners include wood and pulp and paper processing, physical, chemical and biotechnical biomaterial processing, component isolation and upgrading, sophisticated biomaterial analysis, environmental and techno-economical modelling and assessment of processes, products and business scenarios related thereof.
Main Local Researcher
Coordination
TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT
Partners
Danisco Sweeteners Oy; Finland; INNVENTIA AB; Sweden; OY KESKUSLABORATORIO - CENTRALLABORATORIUM AB; Finland; UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO; Portugal; FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V; Germany; HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO; Finland; Kompetenzzentrum Holz GmbH; Austria; CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS; Greece; STIFTELSEN SINTEF; Norway; INSTITUTUL DE CHIMIE MACROMOLECULARA PETRU PONI; Romania; Instituto Superior de Agronomia; Portugal; SODRA SKOGSAGARNA EKONOMISK FORENING; Sweden; CELULOSE BEIRA INDUSTRIAL SA; Portugal; Oy Separation Research Ab; Finland; NATEX PROZESSTECHNOLOGIE GESMBH; Austria; GRANIT RECHERCHE DEVELOPPEMENT SA; Switzerland; HTE AG THE HIGH THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTATION COMPANY; Germany; DANISCO SWEETENERS OY; Finland; University of Maine; United States; SODRA CELL; Sweden; Greenvalue SA; Switzerland
Outputs
Simulated Moving Bed Strategies and Designs: From Established Systems to the Latest Developments
Aniceto, JPS; Silva, CMExtraction and Purification of Triterpenoids using Supercritical Fluids: From Lab to Exploitation
de Melo, MMR; Domingues, RMA; Silvestre, AJD; Silva, CMScale-up studies of the supercritical fluid extraction of triterpenic acids from Eucalyptus globulus bark
de Melo, MMR; Domingues, RMA; Sova, M; Lack, E; Seidlitz, H; Lang, F; Silvestre, AJD; Silva, CMModeling ion exchange equilibrium of ternary systems using neural networks
Aniceto, JPS; Fernandes, DLA; Silva, CMIsolation of suberin from birch outer bark and cork using ionic liquids: A new source of macromonomers
Ferreira, R; Garcia, H; Sousa, AF; Freire, CSR; Silvestre, AJD; Rebelo, LPN; Pereira, CSFree-volume model for the diffusion coefficients of solutes at infinite dilution in supercritical CO2 and liquid H2O
Magalhaes, AL; Da Silva, FA; Silva, CMAccurate hydrodynamic models for the prediction of tracer diffusivities in supercritical carbon dioxide
Magalhaes, AL; Vaz, RV; Goncalves, RMG; Da Silva, FA; Silva, CMModeling ion exchange equilibrium: Analysis of exchanger phase non-ideality
Aniceto, JPS; Cardoso, SP; Faria, TL; Lito, PF; Silva, CMRemoval of Anionic Pollutants from Waters and Wastewaters and Materials Perspective for Their Selective Sorption
Lito, PF; Aniceto, JPS; Silva, CMTracer diffusion coefficients of polar systems
Magalhaes, AL; Da Silva, FA; Silva, CMEUCALYPTUS BIOMASS RESIDUES FROM AGRO-FOREST AND PULPING INDUSTRIES AS SOURCES OF HIGH-VALUE TRITERPENIC COMPOUNDS
Domingues, RMA; Patinha, DJS; Sousa, GDA; Villaverde, JJ; Silva, CM; Freire, CSR; Silvestre, AJD; Neto, CPHigh value triterpenic compounds from the outer barks of several Eucalyptus species cultivated in Brazil and in Portugal
Domingues, RMA; Sousa, GDA; Silva, CM; Freire, CSR; Silvestre, AJD; Neto, CPReview of kinetic models for supercritical fluid extraction
Oliveira, ELG; Silvestre, AJD; Silva, CMModelling the supercritical fluid extraction of edible oils and analysis of the effect of enzymatic pre-treatments of seed upon model parameters
Passos, CP; Coimbra, MA; Da Silva, FA; Silva, CMCharacterization of Phenolic Components in Polar Extracts of Eucalyptus globulus Labill. Bark by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
Santos, SAO; Freire, CSR; Domingues, MRM; Silvestre, AJD; Neto, CPSponsors
